>>22177107Allow me to answer your question.
>When exactly did the big fake tits craze end? Early 2000s?I'd say by 2005 the craze had ended. If you look at magazines like Scoreland and Hustler by then they had been promoting mostly women with huge naturals and more "realistic" implant sizes for a few years before that.
>And why?Ultimately, it was a fad. And fads come and go. A fad mostly relegated to strippers, hookers, and pornos more or less. A little over a decade goes by and by the new millennia it was seen as a tacky holdover from the 80s and 90s. Most couldn't escape those greasy connotations. Except for Pandora Peaks who actually did manage to get mainstream appeal throughout the 90s and didn't face public ridicule like the rest of her contemporaries. Also by the last few years of the 90s to the early 2000s lots of women with huge naturals got popular (i.e. Dawn McKenzie, Fawn Miller). Women that did get boob jobs were getting fakes that weren't nearly as enormous and/or cartoonishly shaped either. Lots of the popular models like Busty Dusty, Tiffany Towers, and Wendy Whoppers had largely retired by then too. Which didn't help either.
>Did the US government really ban implants?The FDA only banned the use of polypropylene implants. Which were implants used by an extremely few number of people like Chelsea Charms, Maxi Mounds, & Minka. The vast majority of models including everyone posted in this thread and the favorites of most people are the products of silicone of the era. Polypropylene was banned due causing a number of medical complications. Which is reasonable if you read up on how the enlargement basically occurs as a chemical reaction inside the breast.
