Polanski stood by breast enlargement hypnosis claim

Zack Polanski's claim to have immediately apologised for saying that hypnosis could increase a woman's breast size has been thrown into doubt by a newly unearthed interview.

Before entering politics the Green Party leader worked as a hypnotherapist and offered a session in 2013 to enlarge a newspaper reporter's bust.

Polanski has since said he was misrepresented and never believed it was possible, claiming he spoke to the BBC the day after the article to apologise.

BBC News cannot find evidence of such an interview, but six days later he spoke to Radio Humberside to stand by the theory saying "the evidence is growing".

A Green Party source said: "Zack has repeatedly apologised for an interview he did with the Sun more than a decade ago.

"Now, Zack is focussed on the issues that really matter to people: bringing down bills, protecting the NHS and rebuilding our public services."

A 2013 article in the Sun featured Polanski offering a reporter hypnosis to increase her cup size. The reporter claims the session, at Polanski's Harley Street consulting room, had the desired effect, to her surprise.

Since entering politics and becoming leader of the Green Party of England and Wales in September 2025, he has distanced himself from the claim.

He has repeatedly said he was misrepresented and claimed that he appeared on the BBC to apologise the day after the Sun article was published, on 12 June 2013.

The BBC asked the Green Party to point us to the BBC interview in question and also searched programme running orders but could find no record of it.

However, six days later on 18 June, Polanski did speak to BBC Radio Humberside.

In that interview he did not apologise but defended the claims.

"Actually increasingly more and more as I work with people, there's starting to become anecdotal evidence, at least, of a growth in breast size," he told presenter Peter Levy.

Polanski said it was an "experiment" and needed further research.

He added that he hoped people would decide they did not want to enhance their breasts but would "become more comfortable from the inside out".

But he added "the evidence is growing" the technique could work.

"I believe that it can happen in theory and I think it's definitely worth investing the time of evidence and research into hypnosis generally."

The interview contradicts claims Polanski has made since becoming leader of the Green Party.

In September last year he was asked on Good Morning Britain if he believed at the time that hypnosis could enlarge a woman's breasts.

"I was misrepresented, I apologised a day later," he added.

The same month, when asked about the Sun piece on the Pod Save the UK podcast, he said: "I went out on BBC Radio the next day, so not twelve years later when I became a politician, but literally the next day to go 'this article doesn't represent me'."

As deputy leader of the Green Party, he told LBC radio he "never believed that" women's breasts can be enlarged through hypnotherapy.

"I apologised immediately the day after the article 11 years ago to say that doesn't represent my work and that I don't stand by that article. I apologised because I recognised that would be offensive to people," he said.

Commenting on the emergence of the Radio Humberside interview, a Labour Party source said: "Zack Polanski's ego might have got bigger, but nothing else has.

"It's now clear that his pretence to have been misrepresented over his breast enlargement hypnosis scam was absolute nonsense - he got called out years later, and he lied about it.

"You can't trust a word he says - he'll say whatever he thinks you want to hear."