Double Divas on Lifetime opens the doors to Atlanta-based LiviRae Lingerie, a specialty store that touts: “Got Boobs? LiviRae’s Got Bras.” Molly Hopkins and Cynthia Richards are the owners of LiviRae Lingerie and have long-been a standout with their custom bras and hands-on approach to fitting a woman correctly. Double Divas airs on Lifetime Tuesdays at 10pm ET/PT.
The series comes from the producers of Say Yes to the Dress and follows Hopkins and Richards in action at LiviRae’s as they interact with clientele in a funny, touching and completely candid way.
Cynthia is the Thomas Edison of custom lingerie. A self-taught seamstress and designer who interned under London’s Rigby & Peller — the “people who make the queen’s bras” she shares. “I’ve been designing since I was little,” crafting custom bras from A to N cups.
Bra sizes go up to N cups??? I didn’t realize that …
“Nobody in America does,” Cynthia tells. “Molly and I thought by doing this show that you educate the American woman out there that you don’t need to suffer anymore. There is something larger than double Ds and triple Ds and you all need to have access to it.”
Cynthia wants to change woman’s fears on the letter size of their bra. “Our goal was to let the American woman know [that] D is not big, D is small. If you are looking at an alphabet where is D? In everywhere else outside of America they go to N and make custom bras, we have to change the fear that women have of the letter.”
Her partner, Molly, is known as the bra whisper (a therapist of sorts) who claims that once the clothes come off, the mouths start talking. “A lot of times they tell us a lot more than we bargained for and it becomes intense,” Molly shares. “We become therapists — were not just fixing your bra, we’re fixing your mindset.”
And a lot of fixin’ in store, as Molly says 85 percent of the world’s women are wearing the wrong size bra.
“If you wear the right size bra you’ll be thinner, you’ll look 10 pounds lighter,” Cynthia says. “That’s just one of the benefits that come with wearing the right size bra. One of the crucial things is it prevents calcification and cells and lumps in your breasts, it keeps your breasts perky, it also takes the strain off the back of your neck.”
The woman wear a lot of hats from custom designers, therapists, even doctors?
“We’re the doctors of lingerie because were writing prescriptions and filling bras with breasts, that’s what we do,” Mollys says. “We are your doctor in every way. Mentally we build up your confidence level, because when you get a women in a room all of their vulnerability and their insecurity come off with their shirt– they are exposed when their shirt comes off. You have to use human and compassion – you have to find a way to and let them know they’re not different than anyone else. Let’s fit you right.”
Double Divas moves to a new night starting this Tuesday, February 5, 2013 with all-new episodes airing at 10:00pm PT/ET.
Photo Credit: Lifetime
I just want to say Me and My Husband love to watch your show. I have always wanted to be correctly measured for a bra. I wear a 38D to a 40D they still don’t seam to fit right I feel like I’m spilling out on the sides, and on top but if I go to the next size up the cup seams to cave in. I’ve tried several brands,and I haven’t found one that I like. I would love your help I would love to feel sexy again, and not to look like and over stuffed muffin in my clothes. Thank You IG from Plainview,Texas
Hello lady’s first I would like to say I love your show and it gives me joy to see someone is out there to help people like me after I had my first child I gained over 100 pounds and it seems that it was mostly in my breasts I went from a 38ddd to a 40M and the last time I bough myself a good was about 10 years ago now it seems that have gotten bigger and I don’t know what size I am now I’m just put on what ever u can get now I need some help please help they don’t make bra ‘s in my size lady’s help no look my best
I watch your every. Week and I’M need your help I have very large breast and don’t really know my size .my son is getting marry this summer and I’M would like to look nice I’m on oxygen and really need you molly to please help me. My back is hurting me bad please help. Marily Thank you
I love your show and I am not the only one finding the
right bra size
I am a 34dd finding the right tops don’t always work
I love Double Divas. I wish I could find the right bra for me. I wear a 44 DDD and cna’t find the right on to hold me up and give me any shape….
I would like to feel pretty in huge bras. I do not know what size bra I wear. Please help me look pretty like the women you had on television. I feel that the car accidented let my body looks ugly. Please let me feel pretty again.
Thanks
Diane Hunt
need good bra cant find right size love yer show can u help
can u make me a bra to fit right im a achronplasia dwarf pls help
I was touched when you made the largest bra for a lady who was so happy with it. I like your show and wish it was on earlier. my daughter has trouble finding bras to fit we have to order online and they dont seem to fit correctly. She was fitted for a 50 f or g and they still sag, they are underwire and they cost a mint and they ride up in the back. She is a big girl but she needs bras that fit and that dont cost 60 dollars or more and last more then a short time. what do your bras run and do you have bras in that size they need more material in back and wider shoulders. she wants breast redudction but has to lose weight first and she does not really want to go have stomach bypass surgery. Could you help us at all? I know she only has two bras now and they are getting very worn. she likes colors has a black one and a pink one with flowers and stuff tried to find a picture and we havent found one to show how her boobs look and we are going to get some and show you how they look with the rest of her body. thanks so much we have needed a show like yours for a long time i wear a 40 dd to 40 ddd depends on make but had the small shoulder straps
love your show keep it up love tammy in ks
I like the show and I like to get some help in finding the right bra to fit me….. Am having trouble finding the right bra to fit…
New idea,new bra that fits every size.
I saw you on Rachael Ray this morning, you girls rock. I have gone to Victoria Secrets and they have tried me for bra’s but I don’t like the way they fit. They have put me in a 38DDD and there is way too much room in there and the wires are very uncomfortable. The lady you helped on Racheal Ray she wanted coverage and lift and yet it was still sexy. I do not feel sexy anymore. I had 2 back surgies and I don’t think i’m attractive. My husband tells me I’m beautiful all the time. I do have boobs but i wish they were smaller . Is there anyway you ladies can help me i’m desperate? love your stuff from what I’ve seen of your show….Any help is greatly appreciated.
I have even tried Fredricks but not happy with those bra’s either.
I look everwhere to find good bras for myself I wear 42I and I can only find two colors white and black and I am sick of those 2 colors and I was wondering do you do you all him them at a good price
I only have one breast which is totally south and very large. I have a 42DD, but it’s not working. Plus I put 2 cut-out foam shapes with a washcloth to boost the effects. I guess I have back fat, but after watching Rachael Ray today, who knows. Any suggestions? Thank you.
Hello the show is GREAT…. and seeing your show at some point I heard that you could see by pictures and size a client. Please can u tell me a way of how I can do this. I am learning Skype if that helps. (Macgyverkc). The reality is that I have a lot of friends that need Help…
Thanks for any assistance.
How can I make an appointment 2 get fitted….in need of help.
“Nobody in America does.” Clearly this woman has not ventured to ALL of America or shopped on the various websites available to American women–barenecessities.com out of New Jersey for example–or she’d not have made such an ignorant statement. I regularly refer my bra customers to places like barenecessities.com if they don’t have access to Nordstrom or Dillard’s–stores that carry sizes larger than DDD.