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Back when Lindsay Lohan exploded into the national breast-obsessed consciousness by undergoing a seemingly miraculous, overnight bazooming, we never imagined we'd ever have to entertain a debate on whether she'd have an operation to make the world's most-discussed rack smaller. But such is the landscape of the so far very surprising 2005, a brave new year where we wouldn't be surprised if earth's gravity spontaneously reversed, Tom Cruise suddenly became an Orthodox Jew with a psychiatry practice, or if Andy Dick sprouted angel wings and married Michael Eisner. An operative who's seen Lohan's new-old cleavage and new-new cleavage in action takes the floor:

I’m sure you have read the rumors about LL’s recent trip to the Cedar’s Celebrity Exhaustion Clinic and her suddenly smaller chest size upon being un-exhauster-ized. Obviously the girl lost weight and that can make anyone’s boobs smaller. But, what if the weight loss was part of the “I got my hair cut and colored at the same time I got my nose job so no one would notice the rhinoplasty” deception plan?

I think Lindsay may have had her implants replaced/reduced during her “exhaustion” stay. In the editing process for her recent video “Rumors” I saw lots of footage that never made the cut, including many shots that made those large breasts-like-objects appear to be cheap Chatsworth accessories. Very fake in a half-basketball way. She just shot a new video, for a song called “Over” and the change is obvious. Her chest IS much smaller and more natural looking. (I didn’t say they were “natural,” just that they may have downgraded the artillery to a more believable caliber.) That seems clear both from eyewitnesses on the set and the footage in the edit – there is now less of the Lohans. Of course, this could just be “weight loss from exhaustion” and not surgery. Right?

We pity the poor publicist who's going to have to formulate the incredibly complicated talking points that encompass the tricky "No, I didn't have my chest enlarged last year, nor did I secretly reduced after my suspiciion hospital stay for 'exhaustion'" denial. In the meantime, let the obsessive and creepy study of photographic evidence begin!