Call us boobs for writing this, but breasts were big — often really big — showbiz stories this year, whether they were growing, shrinking, getting grabbed, hanging out, or popping up on guys. As the months-long debate over Britney Spears‘ endowments raged (the teen phenom insists they’re real), Pamela Anderson Lee traded her major-league models in for a smaller size, while TLC criticized the popularity of implants in their No. 1 hit ”Unpretty.”

Jennifer Love Hewitt called hers ”a great accessory to every outfit,” but Christina Ricci expressed surprise at the prominence of hers in ads for Sleepy Hollow (”A friend told me there’s some big, ridiculous billboard…that’s basically me and my cleavage”). The New York Post and others chided Kathie Lee Gifford for seeming to go braless on the air. And Diana Ross, who fondled Lil’ Kim‘s pastied pulchritude at the MTV Video Music Awards, went ballistic two weeks later at London’s Heathrow Airport, when she herself was frisked — perhaps a bit too aggressively — after setting off a metal detector.