I have always had to deal with people saying things like, ‘geez, go eat a steak’, and ‘I bet you’re on some crazy diet’ and, ‘well you wouldn’t know anything about *insert body image issue*’.  Thing is, I do know about body image.  When people tell me I ‘look thin’, they say it through furrowed brows as if it is some sort of medical concern or something.  In my teens, I had knock-knees and a head-too-big-for-my-stringbean-body, I had boys telling me to grow some boobs and people telling me I must have an eating disorder.  Combine with acne and braces.  I know about body image issues. 

Truth is, I have an insane metabolism.  This is my DNA.  I am as ‘natural’ a woman as the curvy girls I enviously look at in the street.  Hearing this stuff about ‘real women’ makes me feel like crap, because the last time I checked I was a ‘real’ woman, but recent media would have me believe that I am not because I’m skinny. 

Smaggle, I agree.  Women need to stop giving each other hell.  Reverse discrimination is not going to solve it. 

Be supportive of healthy, strong and smart girls.  Whatever their age or weight. 

This issue (on size) has made some girls of today become incredibly bitchy and the rest, insecure. I come from an Asian country where girls there are naturally petite and smaller in size, which also means they lack in other places, like having naturally gorgeous curves. Having been brought up in the UK for part of my life, where maybe I’ve had one too many Kinder Bueno bars, I’m may not be over a UK size 10 but neither am I a petite size 6 (or 4)! It hurts to have girls, from where I come from, whisper harsh comments behind your back in a public transport and hackle at the bingo arms (they have bony ones!)

I think that more women should think like you and not be hung up about what they look like, but rather focus on their inner beauty.

Thanks for this article again!

Mwa

Then quite a while back one of my best friends, a female, added. “Wow i just realised how much skinnier i am then you” Thanks mate, makes me feel so much better.

but by the end, my male best friend said ” your curvy, curvy girls look nicer. better then the very skinny girls, the ones the clothes don’t sit on right.”
Well i didnt really know whether to be insulted or complimented.

I then looked through a magazine and noticed.
he was kind of right. whats so wrong with being a bigger size.
And this whole size 0 saga is just idiotic, i think its unnatural. there is nothing wrong with having a little curves on you, just wear clothes that compliment your shape, or you will look like quite a twit.
you also have to build your confidence up and learn to love you for who you are, and be proud your not a size 0 copy. but you.
I’ll admit, I’m still trying to build confidence and learn to love me.
And hey whats so wrong with being “curvy” i don’t think god intended us all to be twigs.

Might i just add, I think your amazing! (=
Your style, is incredible.
And i hope you don’t mind but your link is on my site.

And im sorry i rattled on a bit.
Habit. (=
x

I lost some weight (maybe five to ten kilograms, not a lot for a 5′ 7” girl who wasn’t ‘fat’) after leaving high school and there is nothing more obnoxious than running into somebody who you haven’t seen in a while and them raving on about how ‘great’ you look for half an hour.

There really is nothing more embarrassing than somebody being unable to focus on anything other than the fact that you’re not fat anymore.

So I hear you – a simple ‘I like your top/skirt/outfit’ or ‘you look nice’ is all I want to hear. I actually even don’t mind the ‘wow, that’s a really unusual skirt’ but whatever you say, don’t tell me I’ve lost weight.