How ugly ARE you underneath

your clothing? The nudity thread inspired this....make yourself sound HORRID. As bad as you possibly can. Don't get too gross in the er, package area...we don't want to get this locked.

I'll start, LOL! (You guys BETTER do it too!) I had a nine pound baby almost 10 years ago so my abdomen resembles biscuit dough. I think my ass is spreading but I don't look at it too often. Ok someone else go and I'll add to this.

I'm sure you look beautiful naked. I think I do too. We're all so quick to criticize ourselves. You would never describe a loved one like that. Don't do it to yourself, even in jest

I am just very accepting of how I look! Gosh, I didn't even describe my boobs!

and this kind of talk always freaks me out

You get to a certain age and really, you just start to accept yourself, warts and all. It's o.k. to poke fun then.

I have suffered from one, too and have been in recovery for five years!

Sorry if this language bothers you. To be so accepting of how I look is quite a stretch for me. I never could before.

That's me! :hi:

How are you walking around???

My kids use to call me an egg with legs!

Can't type and walk at the same time!

An infectious cyst on my inner thigh, no hair on my back, which is good, pasty flesh except for my arms, legs and face. If you just saw me fully clothed, you'd think I have pretty dark skin. But that's really how most Turkish men are. And a little cellulite on my thighs.

But I don't think I'm grotesque.

Mrs. zbdent doesn't puke when I come out of the shower . . .

But my cat did scream . . .

Just keep thinking that.....

(little do they know it's more like Uncle Fester!)

;)

I have huge calves. I like to call them cows actually. They are the size of a lot of other women's thighs. They aren't ugly, a lot of men actually compliment me on them (!) and I don't have the 'cankles' that often accompany them. But I'm really self conscious about them. A lot of times I can't even find pants that fit over them! And forget the knee high boots. And you can't even get them liposuctioned, trust me I checked on it. And you can't hide them either, unless you wear bootleg pants all the time. Sigh...I am a freak.

P.S. Speaking of freakishness, I also have that rare biological anomaly known as a third (supernumery or superfluous I've heard them called) nipple. It's about the size of an eraser and located on my ribcage. But I like it.

but then, I have no calves to speak of, so that might be why. ;-)

:loveya:

And there's nothing wrong with skinny calves either.

lol

I haven't really thought about it for months......now I'll be obcessing every time I get out of the shower. Damn.

That it's possible, if you have a baby, for it to grow milk glands and produce milk!! Eeeew.....

it is freakish- but much less than the real 2

The third was thought to be used to suckle familiars.

I have gotten a little soft which I don't like. I am starting to lift again to see if things firm up some. Don't like to jiggle when I walk. I also need to lose around 15-20 lbs. I don't think people would run screaming if they saw me naked. On the other hand, I also don't think Playboy would be offering me any contracts any time soon.

that extra 15-20 lbs. my way, I'll take it!

if I could decide where it went!!!:P

agreed!

I don't know how old you two are but up until I was in my mid twenties I used to be called "toothpick." Age has a way of undoing that. Besides, my unwanted lbs. are mostly on my hips, butt and tummy. I think if I give it to you that's where it has to go! LOL.

but our family ages slowly - I KNOW it will catch up!

Hips, I'd take 1/2 lb: Butt, maybe 1/2 lb; tummy - skip it I'll take 2 for extra boobs, if they are 'firm lbs'!!

What does the bidding start at?

You're only willing to take 3 pounds? Go ahead, i'll take the rest. :)

Seriously. I have some messed up body issues. :(

I lost the baby weight at an incredible rate (hyper-thyroid problems). For me, in a mirror in my birthday suit I see too pale, too many freckles, too skinny (5'7, 127) and sooo much grey hair I am now blonde (can't tell it's grey except in sunlight), I miss the light auburn I had in my 20's.
I was fortunate to avoid stretch marks, but still have psychological scars from my son's 6 mo's of colic.
I'm OK for 40, but inside I am still in my 20's

But shaving about 20 or so pounds off would cure that.

I think you are cute. Blush.

not any more.

I have one of those upside-down 'L' scars that is about 7 or so inches along the bottom of my ribcage to the center of my torso, just under the sternum. Then the scar takes a 90° turn down for about 11"...but thats not all-The docs said "Wow, for a white girl, you sure keloided!" But that's not all! They used my rectus abdominus (abs) from the right side for filler! So i have a two-tier abdomen (deeply and freakily bifurcated) and i will never get that slight definition back-I'll only ever have a 3-pack-but that's not all! they messed up my belly button too! and other stuff-but i think it's clear-i have a torso that went from HOT to hideous mutant freak.

but hey! when i consider the alternative-it's not ALL that bad-it'll just be a frosty day in hell before i get back into a bikini! :)

I had a lover long ago whose scar I obcessed over.

straight down my chest and belly and curves around my belly button.

You've heard of the fat Elvis - I am the fat frankenstein.

and cut out bread if you have a weight issue - it is hard, but DAMN, hubby has lost 20 lbs doing it.

It matters what you DO with it!

I look like one of those fertility goddess statues with the hanging breasts and the big round tummy. Kind of a female Buddha.

I'm 47 and up until about 10 years ago, I never had much of a weight problem other than yo-yoing 20 lbs or so from my high school weight. Even so, I had the typical screwed up body image that most American women have. But in '94 my mom got diagnosed with breast cancer and I just started eating. Then in '96 I found out I have an auto-immune thyroid disease (which I always suspected) and I gained 50 pounds in a year. I continued to gain gradually until I hit a good 120 pounds overweight. Even though looking at my pregnant like belly freaks me out, I can't honestly say that my body image has changed that much, it's just that now my body looks as bad as I always thought it did before. How pathetic is that? I was pretty used to having a big butt and big thighs. That's just my body type. But when I got over 200 was when I got this big belly and big upper arms that are just so gross.

My mom died in January and I'm slowly getting back to normal eating. I figure if I don't lose the weight soon it will end up shortening my life. In addition to all the other risk factors, obesity is a big risk factor for breast cancer and I'm simply horrified at the thought of dying the way my mom did. So slowly but surely, the weights coming off and if I have to have a tummy tuck and breast lift when I'm down to my goal weight I'm going to do it. I'm not going through all this work of losing weight only to have loose skin hanging to my knees and National Geographic boobs. Forget about pinching an inch. I can yank a yard!

On edit: I found the fertility goddess avatar. Yup, that's me!

and while I am "only" about 30 pounds overweight, I feel like I look like her, too.

Which I really don't mind. I am liking my body more and more the older I get. It has done amazing things.

Best of luck to you in your quest!!!