Are Nicki Minaj’s Breasts Real? An In-Depth Investigation Posted by Nathan S. on 10/21/13 | Filed under Top Stories, Girls, Nicki Minaj, General Awesomeness

Last week I posted an article about jaw-dropping new selfies from Nicki Minaj and Kim Kardashian, because, you know, I like to stay classy. But what I thought wouldn't get any more complicated than some proverbial eye candy turned into a comment section debate about the authenticity of Nicki and Kim's assets. Case in point:

"Not sure about Kim, but I thought it was common knowledge that Nicki's boobs and ass are fake." - Rickjamesbitch

Now, everytime I see a phrase like "common knowledge" alarms start going off in my head. Much of what's assumed to be common knowledge is, in fact, just a lot of people being wrong about the same thing. Nicki and Kim may be more inflated than a kid's bounce house, but if so, I needed to do the research to back up a claim like that. Sir Alexander Fleming couldn't just walk down the street yelling, "Hey, I invented Pencillin and it cures all kinds of shit!" He had to prove it, and I hold myself, and RefinedHype Nation, to the same high standards.

So while for some a simple before and after picture may be enough, I need more. Size, or the appearance of size, isn't everything. As any woman, or any man who's lived...intimately...with a woman for an extended amount of time, knows, natural boobs wax and wane. Add in the fact that there are now literally people whose jobs revolve around making Nicki Minaj's boobs look as large and symmetrical as possible for the camera, and I don't think we can make a judgement based on a before and "after" picture.

I'll get to Kim's posterior shortly, but just in case you haven't already figured it out, I'm starting our in-depth investigation with Nicki's topside. And it seems only right that we start off with Nicki's comment on her (alleged) proclivity for plastic surgery:

”I’ve never had surgery on my face. They’ll see contour and they’ll think you had surgery on your nose, no no no, look at 'RuPaul’s Drag Race' and you’ll see how you can make your nose look any shape you want." - Nicki Minaj

The more pessimistic among us will zero in on the "on my face" portion of that as an odd proof that Nicki has had surgery on other body parts; that's the type of evasive linquistic manuever you usually see from a politician.

Regardless, a picture of some boobs is worth a thousand words, or something like that, so let's move onto the visual evidence. My first thought was to dig up one of the first videos I could find of Nicki, and compare and contract with her 2012, boob-infused video hit for "Starships":

Circa 2007/2008

"Starships" 2012

Hmmmm.....I'd actually say that's pretty inconclusive. As I mentioned, for the "Starships" Nicki literally had stylists working full time on padding and propping up her cleavage, and that's before the editing department even got a hold of them. 

I think if we're really going to track any increase in Nicki's cup-age, we're going to have to use photos, and we're going to have to do a year-by-year cleavage timeline. For consistency's sake, when possible I used the cover of her mixtape/album of that year, and cropped every photo to the same size. That's right, I'm doing everything I can to control for for variables. This shit is science.

"Playtime Is Over" 2007

"Sucka Free" 2008

"Beam Me Up Scotty" 2009

"Pink Friday" 2010

American Music Awards, 2011



"Pink Friday" Roman Reloaded 2012

Instagram, October 2013

When you see them all laid out like that, pair by pair by pair, it's hard to deny that while we're not talking about someone who went from A-DD overnight, there has been some growth here,

Still, we've come this far, we might as well finish things out. As I established during the Rihanna's boobs in-depth investigation, position, more than size, is often the best proof. At the right angle nearly any pair can seen ample, but if a woman's lying down, and her boobs stay firmly upright, I don't care what she tells you or how big they are, they're fake. If Nicki was laying down in that Instagram photo above, and they still looked like that? Case closed.

So I spent some time and I think I've found the perfect positioning photo to either confirm or deny our hypothesis. Behold, from the aformentioned "Starships" video:

I'm most interested in that right boob. See how even though her body is tilted downward and to the left, it's still perfectly upright, if not leaning to the right (away from the ground)? Natural boobs are fantastic, but they can't defy the law of gravity like that. They just can't.

So in summary, while definitive proof will probably go to the grave with Nicki and her Brazilian plastic surgeon, after some in-depth research I'm much more comfortable agreeing that Ms. Minaj has indeed been silicon-enhanced. In fact, while it's only a guess, looking over these pictures like it's the Zapruder film, I'd guess that she had one done around early 2010, and then possibly another more recently (is this picture more like her 2012 or 2013 boobs?), although I'm less sure about that one. Even considering she's completely free floating, that 2013 pic just looks like a different era of size, even another notch up from the 2012 "Roman Reloaded" cover. We may just have to wait for more evidence to come in.

Update: Shortly after I wrote that last sentence the photo below came up. And by "came up", I mean I spent a portion of my life Google Image searching "Nicki Minaj topless":

Yeah...now I don't think there's any question she went up another level between the "Roman Reloaded" cover and now. In 2012 they still retained some semblance of normalcy, now they look like over-filled water balloons.

So there you have it. We may have ended up exactly where we started, as certain as we could possibly be that Nicki's boobs are fake, but at the very least we can . Sometimes it's not about the destination, it's about the journey. I'll set my calendar to check in again next year - we can do an annual The State of Nicki Minaj's Boob Size. And I think it's only fair that we give Nicki the last word:

"Like, if you guys focus energy on and spend energy on it, I don’t mind it. You know, people are sitting in the barbershop talking about my butt, it’s conversational. That’s what people are gonna do. As long as they’re talking about Nicki Minaj, I’m good." - Nicki Minaj

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