Angsty Plus-size teen Rant!!!

Once when I went on sunbeds before a holiday I went on for 9 miniutes instead of 6 like the last two times, so I thought it would be fine but my belly was sooo red, it actually went brown but no more!

My mum tans very well on her top half but her legs always get bits of red on them but I think it's because she has this thing called lymphademia where she was born with no lymph glands so it's just fluid in parts so doesn't tan for some reason I dunno but I never get an all over tan and also I become a giant frekle in the sun. wee off topicing go mee.

Haha it's all good =P my body was doing an annoying thing this year - I sat/lay in the sun wearing practically nothing for hours and didn't get tanned, but then when I walked round for twenty minutes in a normal dress, my back and arms got REALLY burnt

I understand you were angry when you wrote it Dis.ar.ray and those people were very cruel and deserved to be told off. What great people they are, slagging off someone they don't know grr

My bad, I only read the top and I thought you were just bitching you couldn't find any. People are D*@ks! And the sad part is they probably won't even pay attention to what you had to say. Ignorance is bliss. People should just learn to let others be, we would get along so much better. Woman of all sizes are beautiful. But an a$$@@le is just an a$$@@le.

[I] OMG,,, I loved your rant !!!! I am myslef so angry at all these size 0, rib loving people hu are anorexic just for the fun of it ! sure there are som people hu hav their problems and that's the wayy they deal wiv them ...but stil =// . everywhere you go it's alwys ribs that are shown and stick sized people are promoted! It just makes me feel so sikkkk... and I kno everyones tired of hearing bout size zeros bit still . i myself am size 14 , 5ft5 and 11stone, but I am not fat. just 'cause you are plus size doesnt mean yur fat. & OMG ii have to say that the average size for woman is size 16 !! so the media can [B]put that in their PIPE AND SMOKE IT! lol

The OP didn't ask for their opinions, she just wanted to know where to find them -- can those people not read or what? Even if skinny jeans don't look universally flattering on bigger girls (I know they don't on me hehe), I'm pretty sure SHE would know better than a bunch of people who don't even know her shape. Sheesh. Y!A seems to be a breeding ground for pro-ana people. Awhile back I saw a question from a girl who said she was 5'8" and 135, and she was asking questions about weight loss so she could look "healthier"! That's just not right. D: Of course, most of the responders just "encouraged" her with unhealthy weight-loss advice (like pills) and comments about how she must look a lil chunky.

One of the books we had to read in English last year was set in Botswana, and the main character was a larger lady. In their culture it's seen as attractive if you're not stick thin, because it's a sign of wealth (like you have enough money to get enough food and things) and it's meant to mean you would be a good mother or something. I don't really think I agree with that, but it was nice to see that some cultures don't want people who are constantly putting themselves in danger by trying to lose weight and become thin.
At the ed of the day it's just about whether you're healthy or not. Naturally skinny people can be healthy, and so can people who are larger than the "average".

And I think the whole thing with people saying larger people can't or shouldn't wear skinny jeans is stupid. Clothes suit some people and don't suit others, so what you wear is up to you. If you've got the confidence to wear something then go for it!
Recently there was a program on TV with Trinny and Susannah (2 woman who are meant to be fashion experts... I don't like them, but that's beside the point haha. They have people on their TV shows and it's like a makeover sort of thing, they sort out their wardrobes and tell them what they should and shouldn't wear to make them look good). They went round major high street shops and looked at the poor selection of plus-sized clothing, and then asked the retailers why they didn't have better selections. It was meant to challenge the whole "skinny is best" idea, but I don't think the retailers really paid much notice - at the end of the program they just sat around with "Yeah, and? We'll listen but we aren't actually going to do anything about this" looks on their faces which I found pretty annoying.

Im 155 lbs, 5'4" and 36b. Its a kinda normal size, but im 12 soooooooooooooooooooo... I bet if i was skinny i would complain about that too.

ah yes, you do get quite a lot of idiots on yahoo answers.
that was totally out of order though.
your reply to them made me laugh though, and you're entirely right.
beauty certainly does come in all shapes and sizes. and personally i think curvy women look a lot better than dangerously thin people.

not all skinny people choose to be though. some suffer from ED's [eating disorders] and struggle to gain weight.
i hate the media for always telling us what we should look like.
it can trigger people to have ED's and it just makes you feel like crap if you don't look like the models or celebrities you see on tv or on the front of magazines. just the other day actually i saw a little kid, only 8 years old called dana who had anorexia. it really saddens me, you know. she didn't even know why she was anorexic. she said she wanted to eat more healthily and ended up cutting out most if not all of the fatty food she ate. personally i think it's because you never see bigger women on tv advertising beauty products or walking down the runway, so kids get the distorted thought that you can only be beautiful if you're incredibly thin.

I'm a size 8-10, and I look horrid in skinny jeans - it's not about your size or weight!

That said, I believe the media is kinda responsible for how girls see themselves, but only because people are insecure enough to want to read it in the first place. At the end of the day, the crap about Britney sells, and someone continues to produce it because it makes them money, doesn't mean they think its right or wrong... I've always said that if people need to see Amy Winehouse or Britney looking terrible to feel good about themselves then they are mental. The reason skinny models are used is this - the more "perfect" (ie-unremarkable) the model looks, the more people blot her out and focus on the product. I know this is going to sound bad, but if huge or ugly models were used to advertise something, the dumb majority of people would talk more about the model being fat or ugly than talking about the product, atleast that's how it is in the heads of marketing people. I'm not saying it's right, but it's just something that caught on and is now impossible to reverse.

I've never felt pressure to lose weight, (I was a size 16-18 in high school, but now I'm 8-10, it was just puppy fat) I've always seen the models on TV etc as completely seperate from real life, but I can understand how easy it is for young insecure girls to think that's what they want to be.

I have been plus sized since I was a kid. I used to hate it, and make myself throw up my food or not eat. I could never do it enough to actually lose weight, though, which in retrospect is a good thing. My sister used to make fun of me because of my size and shape (she has always been slim), as did other kids. I never felt like a girl. I felt like a blob. I was on high doses of prednisone - a steroid - at the time because of my kidney transplant, too, which made me retain water and get hairier than most girls. Also, it changed the distribution of fat on my body. It gave me a chubby neck and chin, and more of a bulging, awkward belly. In addition, it increased my appetite and gave me mood swings.

I never felt cute or hot in high school. I was the ugly girl no one liked, even though I was nice to everyone. I have more of a feminine shape now, my breasts have filled out, etc. I'm 5 ft. tall and 153 lbs. The most I've weighed is 160 lbs. (My weight tends to fluctuate a lot because of water intake/retention.) I walk everyday, try to eat healthily and in reasonable portions. Overall, I'm healthy, even though my doctors tell me I'm obese and that I should lose 30+ pounds.

They told me to eat healthy and exercise more, so I did/do, but I haven't lost any significant weight; therefore I believe I'm just meant to be this size. Or maybe I'm just not pushing myself hard enough... I'd lose weight if I exercised more than what is comfortable for me, or ate less than what was comfortable for me. But why put myself through hell when I'm already doing fine?

As far as I'm concerned, anyone who judges me by how I look is only showing their ignorance. My medications still affect my weight and shape, and always will, but I accept that now.

You sound perfectly normal rainbow! One of my close friends is around your height and weight, and she looks GREAT! If you feel that you are healthy, and you are eating right and walking, then there is NO reason you should loose weight, for any reason.

I've actually been trying to research thing, and taking out America, there are actually almost as many underweight people as there are overweight. So tons of people need to GAIN weight actually.

I just wish that Body type was looked at the way hair color is. I love dark hair with green eyes, But I think TONS of other mixtures could be incredibly attractive. Thats how I wish it was with others. Someone could be attracted to pear-shaped women, but still find TONS of other body types equally beautiful.

Hopefully one day, it will be that way.