Perfect response, chillepeppa. That's exactly right. WAT??????

<runs to open piggy bank>

I must be a super model. I have a visible collar bone & jiggly arms!

SMH. 

No offense intended, but all I can say is that I am really glad I don't have concerns about my body image the way society makes women question theirs.  Not to say society doesn't have it's "standards" for men, but I don't follow them.  I am unique just the way I am.  It is scary how people buy into all these trends and fads. 

I can see where it might come in handy at the laundromat.  Nowhere to put that roll of quarters?  Just tuck them into the indentation behind your collarbones! 

There is a cartoon that says "I would rather have a warm vagina than a thigh gap".

My collar bone sticks out and I am not skinny. It's not something you can fix or predict. It's genetic. 6 pack abs for women are also genetic. All the working out and starving in the world won't give you a 6 pack. Some people are just born with less fat there so you can see the muscle. DD has had a personal trainer for years and he told us that long ago when she was mildly obsessed with having a 6 pack. After he told her that she gave up that dream.

-- Edited by Mellow Momma on Friday 19th of June 2015 03:24:18 PM

I have a thigh gap, and I'm pretty sure my vagina is desirable anyway

Whats a thigh gap?

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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Thigh gap is that little hole you see between a woman's thighs right up at the crotch part when they are standing with their legs closed. If you can see a hole between their legs under their crotch it's called a thigh gap. Supposed to mean you're very thin and appealing.

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 Uh no. It's been taken to a whole new level. Now they want a gap all the way up from your knees when you're standing with your feet together. There is a 'pencil test' that you can do.. put your feet together and put a pencil between your legs at the top, if you can run it all the way down to your knees without touching.. you win.. or you're skinny enough, or something. 

Spoiler

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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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Thigh gap is that little hole you see between a woman's thighs right up at the crotch part when they are standing with their legs closed. If you can see a hole between their legs under their crotch it's called a thigh gap. Supposed to mean you're very thin and appealing.

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 Uh no. It's been taken to a whole new level. Now they want a gap all the way up from your knees when you're standing with your feet together. There is a 'pencil test' that you can do.. put your feet together and put a pencil between your legs at the top, if you can run it all the way down to your knees without touching.. you win.. or you're skinny enough, or something. 

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 Never heard anything so stupid.  No matter how thin I get I will never have a thigh gap.  I am knock kneed.  BIG TIME.  My thighs always are together and the bottom of my legs looks like duck legs.

Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

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Whats a thigh gap?

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 Basically what we used to called bow-legged.

How is it bow legged? That girl in the spoiler looks normal to me.

sexy bow legs.

I'm fat and have a visible collarbone. I guess fat is sexy now :P

Those hip bone people look bad. Like malnourished bad.

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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Those hip bone people look bad. Like malnourished bad.

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 That's what my hip bones looked like in high school. They just stuck out naturally like that. But I was a dancer and had the frame of a ballet dancer so it made sense. I ate like I had a damn tapeworm too. So the person in the pic might just be naturally skinny. I hope. 

-- Edited by Mellow Momma on Friday 26th of June 2015 10:39:03 PM

Even though my hip bones stuck out (they rubbed on the waist of my high waisted acid washed jeans!) I always had a little pooch in the middle. I asked the doc once why that Part stuck out like that. She told me it was my uterus and I needed to forget about a flat tummy because it wasn't natural for women. She was the best doc ever.

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Well MM, some things just don't look natural. And that skinny doesn't look good. Even if it's real. I dunno, for me it looks sickly.

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 As soon as I got pregnant the first time, that skinny was gone ! Lol. I weighed the same after I gave birth as before, but it was in all different places than before. 

 

Mellow Momma wrote:

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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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Well MM, some things just don't look natural. And that skinny doesn't look good. Even if it's real. I dunno, for me it looks sickly.

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 As soon as I got pregnant the first time, that skinny was gone ! Lol. I weighed the same after I gave birth as before, but it was in all different places than before. 

 

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 This is me too. I lost weight throughout my pregnancy until DS hit the gaining weight stage and the 5 pounds I gained above my pre-pregnancy disappeared once all the IV fluids and such left my body. My stomach, however, never went back to its pre-pregnancy shape. I'm still fat but it's more evenly distributed now. I can't believe it will be a year and a half tomorrow since welcoming DS into the world.

I weighed the same after baby 1 and 3 as I did when I got pregnant.

After baby 2 I weighed almost 10 lbs less than prepregnancy.

That was a very difficult time in my life.