*Side-by-side photos of Palin’s boobs courtesy of Gawker.

A few days ago, I reported the rumor that Sarah Palin had maybe gotten a boob job, based pretty much on her recent boob-tastic appearance at Belmont. I thought there was a 50-50 chance that she had gotten them done, just because they really did look bigger and fuller than usual. Other theories included a really good padded bra, a great shirt, weight gain and/or a series of strangely-angled photos. I also liked that Palin didn’t come out and confirm or deny either way – it separates her from people like Nicole Kidman and Demi Moore, who are “all natural” apparently. Anyway, Palin still isn’t denying it directly, but a “pal” tells Us Weekly that the boob job rumors are “ridiculous.”

A source close to Sarah Palin slams reports that the former Vice Presidential candidate had a boob job.

“It’s absolutely ridiculous,” the insider tells UsMagazine.com of the rumor, which hit the web earlier this week, after Palin appeared considerably curvier at Sunday’s Belmont Stakes horse race in Elmont, New York.

Still, it’s not the first time Alaska’s former governor has flaunted her cleavage. In a candid photo from her days as an undergrad at the University of Idaho, a younger Palin, now 46, showed off a pink T-shirt that read “I may be broke but, I’m not flat busted.”

Reps for Palin and her Political Action Committee could not be reached for comment despite repeated attempts by UsMagazine.com.

[From Us Weekly]

Now that we’ve gotten a denial, I believe it even more. The only thing that’s keeping me from being totally convinced is that I don’t really know when Palin might have had the procedure done – she’s photographed a lot, probably every day or every other day. Could she have slipped away for several days/a week to get her boobs done, and no one noticed her absence? I was looking through photos of her from the past month, and the last photos we have of her before her like-new boobs appeared on June 5 was a speech she gave on May 23. Is that enough time to go in, get them done and come out wearing a clingy white shirt at Belmont? Probably.