What women look like...

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Sorry for not replying earlier.

I don't have a problem with ANY size. I also don't feel the urge to look at other naked women - I have an anti-urge for that in fact so will NOT be checking out that site. No matter why the picture was taken, I really don't want to see it.

My only problem was with the word "real". I know it's not because of Bec, but because of my own hang-ups. I'm sick of being not "real". I know it's my issue and no-one elses, but that word really upsets and offends me.

BTW, to be on TV I'd need a LOT of breast enhancement and probably a tummy tuck; while it is considered "flat" I know it was a LOT flatter beforehand and DS keeps grabbing the loose skin on it! I don't have a TV body, not at all (a super-trim model body, yes, but not a TV body). But I do have a real one and I HATE being told that I don't, especially by shops who "only stock for REAL women, sizes 12-30" and crap like that - so I'm not real or not a woman? Is that it? How is size 30 normal? I'm sorry if I offend because you are a size 30 but there are a LOT more size 10 women out there than size 30. Doesn't make either not real though.

You have your own body, it is YOUR body and it is REAL. So why be told "this is what a REAL woman looks like" when YOU are a REAL WOMAN and can just look in the mirror.

Maybe "this is what some other women look like" would have been better for me!

Given the amount of magazines that seem to exist just to photograph "celebrities" and their cellulite/spots, I can't see why anyone would consider air-brushing in films as something we don't know about.

ETA: I was told so much in pregnancy that I should be putting on more weight, that I wasn't big enough... blah blah blah... everyone compared me to every pregnant woman they'd ever known, I did feel like a freak then. But it was other people calling my REAL body having a REAL pregnancy a freak. My only solace then WAS pregnant models in the pregnancy/baby catalogues because it showed me that other people DO have pregnant bumps like mine, so I can see why other people need this sort of thing. I just see every woman as being beautiful in her own right and it's only being told we're freaky or not real that makes us wonder about it. (OK, I didn't see women calling me a freak as beautiful but YKWIM in general.) I've never subscribed to the media image of beautiful, but I suppose for most of my adult life I've not had people calling me a freak so I deal with things differently; teenage years were very different though, I was freaky for not having breasts then (same as when I was pg LOL), so I suppose that site may have helped. But then I wouldn't have looked; if I were deemed a lesbian for not having breasts then what would I be for looking at naked women? LOL.

My point is that no-one is 100% happy with their body and everyone gets called names or feels freaky because they're different. But we should concentrate on being nice to each other so we don't need things like this for our confidence. (My breasts are the same size, btw: if one were bigger than the other then I'd have a breast at last.)