The deputy leader of the Green Party has previously argued that women can buy a bigger bra size if they choose to.
While working as a hypnotherapist in 2013, Zach Polanski experimented with a technique in which women, while under hypnosis, imagined themselves with enlarged breasts.
He said at the time that the procedure would become popular “very quickly” because it was “very safe and much cheaper than breast augmentation.”
He has since apologised and distanced himself from his earlier comments, while insisting it was not a service he charged for.
In 2013, Polanski, who was then working as a Harley Street hypnotherapist, tried to help a Sun reporter increase her breast size by harnessing the powers of her subconscious.
“This is an extremely novel approach,” he said. “In theory it could work on other parts of the body too – there’s no reason why it couldn’t help make nails longer and stronger, for example.”
“And there is already evidence that hypnotherapy has helped many patients suffering from alopecia to grow their hair.”
According to the reporter, she was asked to visualize herself with larger breasts while Polanski worked on her subconscious, and was advised to visualize her changed body as often as possible after returning home.
She claimed that her breasts did increase in size initially, but stopped growing after about 10 days.
“I think it’s important to say that I apologized.”
“The brain is the most complex computer we know of,” Polanski told the paper at the time.
“Our unconscious knows how to move our bodies better than we know ourselves. Essentially, I’m trying to harness unconscious processes to bring about change in the body.”
“Because of the complexity of the unconscious, we don’t know exactly what is changing.
“We know that any change is ecological, so if it changes one thing, like a person’s breast size, we need to make sure the whole system is changing to support that.”
He has since apologised for his comments, saying in 2019, according to the South West Londoner website: “I think it’s important to say that I have apologised. In 2019 I would not have written that article and if I had, I would have condemned it much more strongly.”
“It was clearly agreed that this was not a service I would charge for and I don’t think the article reflects that.”
He added: “An apology recognises that issues such as misogyny and female body confidence exist in society and that articles like The Sun’s are unhelpful.”
The Green Party has been contacted for comment.
