Bigger Breasts? It’s All in Your Mind, Hypnotist Says
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Forget silicone, says a hypnotist who ran newspaper ads saying he could help women enlarge their breasts through the power of suggestion.
Kentucky’s attorney general doesn’t believe it and accused Steve Marek of deceptive business practices in a lawsuit filed last week.
The advertisements claimed women could increase their breasts “one full cup size without surgery or implants, safely, through hypnosis with a program developed by a medical doctor,” the lawsuit said.
“The theory is that some women, during puberty, may suppress their growth for some reason or other,” a state investigator said in an affidavit filed with the lawsuit.
“When hypnotized, he took them back to puberty and asked them to release the suppression. He indicated the client had to be very motivated to do this,” the affidavit said.
The claim is made “in the absence of any medically recognized evidence that such treatments are successful,” Atty. Gen. Chris Gorman said in the lawsuit.
Marek operates a counseling service in Lexington and is not a medical doctor, although he does have a doctorate from the American Institute for Hypnotherapy in Santa Ana, Calif., the lawsuit said.
“I am very eager to tell my side of the story, but my attorney won’t let me because I haven’t received the papers yet,” Marek told the Lexington Herald-Leader.
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