I went shopping today with a friend to get ready for our College's semi-formal. It's a 1940s thing which I love due to the curve embracing clothes. As I'm shopping I can't help but notice how I can't seem to find anything above a 10. Sure there were some, but like always they were made for skinny people just sized up. So they were in no way flattering.
I love my curves, dammit! I love how my butt is round and makes even black people say that I have a ghetto booty. I love that line that does under my belly. I love to draw those lines and curves in my life drawing class. I love my round thighs and my large breasts. I love my round face. I love all the curves in my body, yet at the same time...I want to be skinny. I want to lose 50 lbs, because I'm told that if I do I won't be "over weight". I am considered to be overweight at 167 lbs and 5'6" according to the BMI. Sure I'm not skinny or thin. I have a belly and an ass and breast. And Dammit my boyfriend thinks I'm beautiful, though I swear he's saying buddahful ;).
I just want some clothes that embrace my body as much as I embrace it. They say America is becoming obese, but with the media and everything I really just feel pressured to lose weight.
So girls relax. Eat healthy. Love food. Love your bodies. Remember that you are beautiful (or buddahful) in your own way.
I love to hear about people being comfortable and loving their bodies. :) So many people (men get issues too) focus on one thing they don't like about themselves, and that's all they see. They even convince themselves that that's all anyone sees. I'm surrounded by people uncomfortable in their own skin, and it is soooo refreshing to read about someone HAPPY with her body!
As far as weight is concerned, health is the only issue. Being underweight is just as harmful as being obese.
-Sonja :)
Great, but are you healthy?
Because when curves turn into blubber, I stop thinking that big is beautiful and start wondering if I should call 911 before that person drops dead from the exertion of climbing up stairs.
I am healthy. If I were 180 or more then I would really have to use the stairs more...but considering I live on the 4th floor of my steep non-elevator dorm I think I'm doin' fine. I do exercise, but I have always been slightly curvier than the rest of my family.
Since I came to an all girls school Ive seen many different shaped bodies and find that I love mine.
((That was meant to be a reply but silly me forgot to hit reply))
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I know what 167 at 5'7" looks like in healthy people and that is an awesome shape as I have been there. I am sure that at an inch shorter you are no more then just curvy...if you are healthy. If not healthy I would say move towards that and ignore that scale.
With my experiences, I really do not like the way many manufactures make many clothes regardless if I am at a fat stage or fit stage.
Good luck and thank you for bringing this up.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.~- Anais Nin