I’m about to somewhat rant a little bit, but I need to say this. It really REALLY bothers me when people say things like “Real women have curves.” Especially when they think they’re promoting self esteem! No, what you just said is body-shaming towards anyone who does not have “curves”. Why do people not get this? How about let’s not put other people down for the way they look? I’m sick of the skinny vs. fat debate but it will always exist because there will always be some asshole who wants to say “Ew, that skinny chick needs to go eat a cheeseburger!” or “You’d look like a model if you lost a little weight.” Do these people not understand that they sound like an asshole when they tell other people how they should look?
I don’t ever take full body photos, I need to start taking ‘em, though! Here is the closest to a full body picture that I have. It’s from September.
I love this question! I am not offended, no worries. Honestly, I do not get much shit about my weight these days, and the minimal amount of shit I do get is from anons. I tend not to dwell on it, because regardless of how they feel about MY appearance, I love the way I look, and people find me attractive. I love my big hips, big ass, and big tits! I have flab, and I have stretchmarks, and I wear a size 18, and I am not ashamed.
I don’t get upset when someone thinks I’m too fat or ugly, because there will ALWAYS be someone like that out there. I do not care about what “society” as a majority thinks of my weight, or fat people, because as long as I love myself, that is all that matters.
I used to get made fun of quite a bit for my weight and the way I looked, but especially for my weight. I used to give it a lot of thought; about why people thought I was ugly, etc. Then I realized, who the hell are they to tell me what is attractive and what isn’t? I can’t make everyone like me, and I can’t be what everyone wants me to look like. There will always be someone out there who thinks I am ugly and fat and just not their type, when there will always be someone out there who will see me and think I’m stunning. It’s all perspective.
Just because those people who make fun of me don’t like the way I look, doesn’t mean I can’t like the way I look, right? I’m confident and proud of myself and if you don’t like it or the way I carry myself, then I don’t really care.
Andy Warhol once said “Weight isn’t important the way the magazines make you think it is. I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror & never looks below her shoulders, & she’s four or five hundred pounds but she doesn’t see all that, she just sees a beautiful face & therefore she thinks she’s a beauty. & therefore I think she’s a beauty, too, because I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do. Maybe she’s six hundred pounds, who knows. If she doesn’t care, I don’t.”