So for all you women, how do you stay feeling good about your bodies? How do you feel about the body you've been given? Do people criticize you? Do you shake it off?
Do you think things like this are good for everyone today?
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2007-10-08 11:25:34 · 5 answers · asked by Speak 5 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
I had a horrible body image during my teens, even though I only weighed around 110lbs. With time, personal accomplishments and building my identity and worth on other things than appearance, size and pounds, I managed to overcome the image issue. It took me a while to get comfortable with being in my own skin. You know how you want what you don't have? At one point I thought my body is nasty because I have big breasts and look deformed, when the trend changed, I thought I needed to do plastic surgery to have bigger breasts---the fashion world is a lose-lose situation---you're never good enough or you can be good today but the standards can change and you won't be good anymore---fragile and unstable. Besides, no matter what you look like, there will always be people who don't consider you attractive, you really can't put yourself at anybody's mercy---what a miserable life that would be.
I don't think it's much about others criticizing you, as much as it is about your own internal voice and you criticizing yourself. And if someone does criticize me, the motherly instinct in me would probably kick in to want educate them about their hangups and ignorance, rather than needing to be educated about how I should feel about my body.
I love food but I also care about feeling attractive for myself and my future partner and I want to live a long, healthy life---so I jog two miles a day and make sure I eat healthy. If I miss a week or two because I was on a trip or whatnot, it's not a big deal, I just pick it back up when I can.
And I don't care about beauty or no beauty, obesity is not healthy. We need to make sure we don't confuse promoting good self image with anything that's a health risk---whether it's having unprotected sex, obesity or smoking.
2007-10-08 11:35:08 · answer #1 · answered by Lioness 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
i used to feel awful about my body when i was younger & wasn't a size 2. (even though i practically disappeared--except for my curvy parts--when i turned sideways) i struggled with anorexia & then bulemia for a while, got down to a "healthy" BMI (i looked SKELETAL! and square). then i gave up the ideal & kinda let myself go (i got BAD). then i decided to change. i started focusing on what i could DO. i started working out a lot, to see if i could lift that much, dance that long, walk that far in a certain amount of time. i lost a lot of weight. i've kept it off too (4yrs & counting). made it to a size 12, and i'm 5'7. not *skinny* by any means, but i'm very healthy.
currenlty, i'm pregnant, and having a little anxiety with the weight gain (even though i haven't actually gained any since i was so sick the first trimester) and concurrent size increase. but i remind myself that my body is DOING something *amazing*--it's helping to build & sustain a new person ! OMG! i can't hardly believe it! and i probably won't until the baby is born.
i've gotten a lot of crap from people over my life about my appearance. i developed early, and got called fat because of it. i'm taller & larger framed than the average woman. recently i became the but of fat jokes in this forum. it didn't bother me much. i shrugged it off. it was actually a lot like the boys in 5th grade that would poke my boob & pinch my butt & call me fat! lol...
anyhow, i do like my body. it can do amazing things!
2007-10-08 11:46:18 · answer #2 · answered by Ember Halo 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I feel great about how I look and the person that I'm, i don't let the media portray the image of the realistic woman. I know that I look good. I'm not stick thin. I weigh 134 and I'm 5'4. I have allot of muscle tone just not in my belly. But Just like Tyra says SO What! I love life to much to care about stupid crap like that.
2007-10-08 11:31:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
What a stupid question. It has not something to do with fat. new child infants are comfortable and that they are not fat.not all women are fat. Nor are all adult men. We could all have some fat or we would not be waiting to stay to tell the tale. DUUUUUUU.
2016-10-06 08:17:07 · answer #4 · answered by calandra 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're gonna unleash a load of enpowerfulfulled women with this one.
*covers ears*
2007-10-08 11:33:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋