Am I the only person who thinks that a UK size 12 is perfectly acceptable and healthy (for women)?

Question

melissaandrews - sorry to highlight you but this is an example of why i asked this question. size 12 is NOT fat, neither is 14 or 16 but I focused on the 12 because its almost like these days, that if a girl is a 12 (UK), she wants to lose weight until shes about an 8. Ridiculous.

in case ive given the wrong impression, im much much bigger than a 12, but asked the question because i cant believe women's mentality these days

Answer 1

I agree 100%

A Personal note though, all my life I have gone up and down in size from a 14 to an 18/20. When I was at my biggest, every article I read said things like: "so and so is a slim size 12" etc. A few years ago I was diagnosed with Narcolepsy, which is a sleep disorder, and prescribed Amphetamines to keep me awake. Obviously, I lost weight, and now for the first time I am a size 12. Now, however, since this ridiculous size 0 craze, articles now say" so and so, a CURVY size 12"....what happened? The media has perpetuated the anorexic craze and it's appalling.

Ironically, since I lost weight, I have felt so much more under pressure to maintain a size 12 figure, that I realise I was actually much happier when I was larger. My weight never used to bother me, but it does now. Silly, eh?

Answer 2

Well some people are just not built slim these days. Sizes today are really messed up... I read that a size 6 back in the 50s is like a size 0 today.... we're making people think they're smaller than they really are. I understand some people will never be thin or even slim, but I do object to the massive meal portions that are considered normal these days... half of North America is obese... it's getting ridiculous. Size 12 is not small, but if the person who is size 12 works out, eats healthy, and simply is build that way, then all power to them. For the person who should be half that size but pigs out, no that is not acceptable.

Answer 3

Yes it is.

Liverade: I think you'll find that this is the UK & Ireland forum - least it says so at the top of the page I'm on! Does it matter - apart from the fact that UK size 12 is a US size 10?

David B: I'm 54 at the end of the month but I ain't no size 16 - I could wish!! lol The thing with celebs annoys me too. Like Michelle McManus lost all that weight (good for her - she did really well), at the time 16 stones and then said she was a size 18! I think not!! That would've made me round about a 14 (again, I wish)!

Answer 4

I agree with you that size 12 is very healthy, I know people who actually eat tiny amounts to remain a size 8 (not their natural size) and they are moody, hungry and not happy at all but because the media say that anything above a 10 is fat they try so hard to stay so slim and they suffer for it.

I'm a 10 and I used to be a 6 until the last four years and I love my thighs and J.Lo bum! I would never want to slim down to a rediculous size, and anyway, most men I know like a bit of meat on their women!

Answer 5

Yes, yes, yes, and moreso it almost goes without saying that if a lady is size 12 at 30, then it is perfectly natural to be a size 16 at 50. Metabolism slows down with age, and most people take a little less exercise.
I have to say that (though I'm male) I find it annoying when I see female celebs who are obviously size 18 or more - no problem with that! - telling the papers/mags they are a size 12 or 14.

Answer 6

I am a very happy size 12 and 5' 7" and I think it is a very healthy size and shape!
I am glad you have asked this and will be interested in the answers you get from men and women.

Similarly, thinking about curves. My bf often tells me I have a big bottom (his word!) some of my friends think he is rude for saying this. Fact is, he is jamaican and him saying that is a massive compliment and I know that it is meant that way - I can't walk anywhere in front of him cos I know he is looking at my ****! Personally I wouldn't describe it as big but hey, if he likes it then whatever!

He is the first man I have been out with that I have felt totally unselfconcious around cos he likes my figure just the way it is and does not lust after skinny models cos he does not buy into the airbrushed hype! I can even have a fat day around him and feel fine, its great
and to all my friends who say you can't let him speak to you like that . . . I say f**k off, he is paying me a massive compliment, go chew on a lettuce leaf and spend your whole life wishing you were just a little bit thinner - me I will enjoy my curves (and having them eyed up and felt up) thank you very much!

Answer 7

i think of what's unusual, is how women human beings % what's "appropriate". that is replaced so rapidly........length 10-12 (uk length) was seen super and narrow, women have been proud to assert they have been a length 10, it became into like yeahhh!! yet now...a length 10-12 is seen "curvy" or despite...and that i do no longer comprehend how, yet alongside the way we've lost our grip on actuality! I see starlets in the magazines at a uk length 4 or 2 or 0, goodness knows what and that i've got been brainwashed that it is real splendor.....while if we expect of logically and actually, a length 12 is an extremely healthful typical length for a woman, yet daily after day seeing those photographs has made us question our entire ideals! i'm a length 10-12 and that i comprehend that if I walked into any room which had customary women human beings in it (I ought to be so fortunate!) that i'd sense FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!! i think of this learn purely highlights how lots of an result the media could have on us, and regulate our perceptions of actuality!

Answer 8

I once went down to a size 10: The weigthwatchers person said I still had 7 lbs to lose. My hair was falling out and my collar bones looked as if I had been in Belsen for 6 months. You could have used my rib cage for a washboard. So I said S*d it! and settled for a size 12 - Great! o for it I feel fit and healthy and my bones are easonalby well upholstered

Answer 9

I think size 12 is the perfect figure
It is slim with curves
The trouble is some women are damaging them selves trying to achieve the stick insect look
It looks awful and it makes them look ill all their bones sticking through
A size 12 looks healthy and what women are meant to look like

Answer 10

That is a great size to be. I am a 10-12 and look ten times better and healthier than when I was a 0. I look at my old pictures and think, "Look at the crack head!" I had no curves, no breast and it was annoying looking for clothes because I was so skinny. Having some meat on your bones is definitely sexy and healthy!