I have my issues. Omg. I have excoriation disorder, mostly on my face and recently on my back. But generally, as far as my body goes, I’m really happy with it.
About a year ago, I had a random thought to hug myself and I cried. But it wasn’t about my body – it was about recognizing this body has THIS mind, and it’s all fine. It’s all good.
I feel fortunate to like my body. I think part of it is prizing the things a lot of people would hate. I think my stretch marks are cool. I love my cherry angiomas – they look like glitter on my skin. I have a wart I hate. Trying to find out how to get rid of it. Something bump (of sebum, I think) on my lady parts that I can’t wait to squeeze out, but generally… I like my body.
I am seeing this is rare. Does anyone else like their body? If anything, I feel like a “butter face” (showing my age here) and I do need to work on THAT. Hugely. But it’s nice to like my body. I’ll try to keep working at the rest.
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A quick visit to a dermatologist can get that wart removed with a nitrogen freeze and sebum taken care of. Don’t squeeze things, you can end up with a cyst.
I’m older and love my body. I think most older women are like that. I wish I had felt this way when I was really young.
Overall I like my body and always have. I feel like my face is so-so but I grew up in a household where my mom never talked poorly about how she looked or how other looked, she never worried about diets or whether she ‘looked good in something’. She was a neglectful parent in other ways so it wasn’t an intentional thing for our self esteem she just literally didn’t care whether she looked thin or not.
I love this body I was given. It’s been very good to me!
I love my body! And increasingly love my face, too. Body is banging, and the only thing I’m working on is getting more buff. At the moment, I can row around 10kg, and I’d like to work up to 16kg. The goal with the body is fedinitely function, with form naturally following. When I’m physically stronger, I look better, but more importantly I carry myself with more confidence.
Face is average and always has been. And you know what? I love that. Most people are average and we should normalise looking average. I don’t wear any make-up because I simply don’t like the time versus value proposition of makeup. I’d rather get up later in the mornig and have fewer products to buy and manage.
I’m 36, and it’s taken me probably around 35 years to get to this stage, but we’re here at last. The trick is honestly to give fewer fucks. Some people do judge my appearance and I won’t get the ‘pretty privilege’. But I don’t need it! My goal is get buff enough and smart enough to kick all their arses anyway.
Yes, I like my body. There are “flaws” that I do feel insecure about sometimes but in general I like my body. Looks aside I’m also grateful for a relatively healthy body.
I have my problems with it, but a lot of those are problems I can’t really change. Like, I can’t change my ripple size without risking serious complications. Body sculpting is a crap-shoot. Even if I lost weight my body would still look sort of weird. And really, that’s fine.
I used to hate my body as a teenager/young adult. I go through old journals and it’s just lists of things I need to do to be skinny and me being hard on myself.
At the very worst I am neutral toward my body now. It’s the vessel for my soul. How could I hate it? And then there wonderful days I genuinely love it and have a great body image day. It took a lot of therapy to get there. I think it comes off in how I interact with people, too, because despite being older and fatter, lol, I get more compliments (mostly from other women) than ever, people are really friendly and talkative with me, and I think it’s the confidence coming through.
But i can also acknowledge simultaneously that I have an obligation to myself to keep it healthy by eating healthy, staying active, practicing good hygiene, etc. It sort of ties into the whole self love thing.
I wouldn’t say Ireally like it, I’m actually somewhat insecure…but much less so than when I was younger, despite losing all my teeth, going through 3 ostomies, having a baby by c-section, gaining and losing weight, and a bunch of surgical scars. I still like my body far more than I did when I was a teenager. Who can say why?
I love my body. I guess I’ve never said it in so many words before but yes, I do. And I love the way it looks
I like my body now that I’m focusing on getting strong and shoring up my fitness level for aging. I love my new muscle tone. I love being more flexible than 5 years ago. I love that most of my chronic pain has gone away as well.
I appreciate how healthy I feel because many don’t have that. I’m in good shape for my age and hope to remain that way.
I’m petite, well-proportioned and athletic. Yes.
Yeah! I’m pretty hot!!! 😃
I think I do, yeah. I’ve worked hard to take care of my body, changing what I could and learning to accept what I couldn’t. Life hasn’t always been easy, but the struggles helped me gain some perspective.
I believe it’s a place you have to reach on your own, but getting there isn’t always easy.
Also, I haven’t used social media since high school, and I think that made a big difference.
I sometimes love it and sometimes hate it. I was bullied a lot by my sister over how I look, I still sometimes struggle to remind myself I do look like an adult woman and I don’t have anything to be ashamed of.
Yeah. I think it helped to move to a country where people tend to dress in loose/modest clothing & a woman’s appearance is rarely commented on. I genuinely feel like I look pretty good & also like it really isn’t that important anyway.
I hate my body. But not looks, feels. I’m chronically ill and feel like my brain and body are at war.
I’m 29 and am in pain every day despite being a lifelong athlete and in great shape, I need spine surgery, one day my hips will need replaced, I almost went blind from the pressure on my optic nerve losing control… auto immune disorders are not a joke.