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[somejauntypolka]

It's taken a while but I feel like I'm pretty comfortable dressing my body. I mean, I really do get it: my sense of style, my unique shape etc. Unfortunately one of the ways that I've coped with my size is to allow myself the adjective "cute". Not beautiful, not fashionable or stylish, but "cute". About a month ago I had gotten dressed and ready to

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[paka]

Body image stuff is such a mess. I think all of us start out with fairly poor body image except for the beautiful people, who are as often as not worried that their appearance skews how folks think of them in the opposite direction. I think it's incredibly difficult to hold onto an image of oneself as a natural 6 or 7.

But sheesh, the nobody's cute after 30? That's really judgemental and sucky. Dude. I'd like to think my dimples have not been downgraded from cute to nice. That would be just lame.

[somejauntypolka]

In my dear Ole's defense he was trying to imply that I'm a beautiful woman (blah...that phrase makes me gag) not just a cute girl. You know, swan instead of a duckling bullshite - and that I shouldn't be selling myself short. And in some ways I kinda am. Cute is all that *I've* allowed myself to be when perhaps I could be more than that.

This shit never ends, does it?

[joyousandjuicy]

FWIW, I've seen so-called 'beautiful people' absolutely ravaged by insecurity and body image issues...

[koppermoon]