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arent ALL women real?

I actually love this website. Sometimes I feel bad about myself but then I look up girls who are the same size as me and it makes me feel better – because it gives me a more unbiased view on what I look like.

BTW, there are slots for girls from under 100 pounds and up, to it’s not necessarily promoting “curvy” or “skinny” or whatever. It’s just a place to post pictures of bodies.

wouldn’t it be just a counterproductive thing to be even more self critical with criticisms from strangers if they think they are an hourglass, but someone might see them as an apple pant size standards vary by designer/brand. I live in a tourist place, so I see all types of body shapes, sizes, etc. I see fat people and everything in between. I see ugly and gorgeous. it is still subjective on what one deems attractive according to their personal preferences.

Look, folks, whether you want to admit it or not, ALL women are real. Fat, skinny, anorexic, curvy, short, tall, ugly, fug, etc. When did “real” become a synonym for “non-skinny to overweight”?

I actually really like this. Sometimes when I gain or lose weight, I have a hard time grasping how I look or how my body has changed. It would be helpful to have a sounding board of people that are not afraid of hurting my feelings because they aren’t my friends. 

“In a world full of images of how we “should” look it can get difficult to tell how we DO look.  Our hope is to build a site where women can see what real women look like.  What

we

really look like.  Most women have spent so many years looking at themselves in mirrors that we can no longer see what’s really there.  The My Body Gallery project’s goal is to help women objectively see what we look like and come to some acceptance that we are all beautiful.” – from the ‘About Us’ page on the site.

This site is wonderful, but it’s not enough.  Photoshopped or digitally edited images of women OF ANY KIND distorts our perception of ‘beauty’ and these pictures are everywhere.  We need more stringent regulations for advertising or print media of any kind in order to correct for this distortion.  
I read somewhere that 95% of ALL pictures in a magazine have been digitally edited.  95%!  That’s outrageous!  No wonder we have folks with eating disorders and with distorted perceptions of their own body… 

@kimmieheart@xanga - @MoonFaeEyryan@xanga - THANK YOU.

I didn’t know that curve-less women were, in fact, artificial.  ”BUT THEY LOOK SO REALISTIC!” 

I think this website could be helpful for some. When I’m out and about I notice other people’s bodies and tell myself we’re all just people and we all look different, it helps me to stop being so hard on myself.

@MoonFaeEyryan@xanga - i love you.
finally, someone said it. i’m getting tired of hearing all this “real woman” shit. all women are real. and “real” shouldn’t be synonymous with “fat.” i’m petite and toned. does that mean i’m not real?

wtf does banana mean?

i think by real women they mean people who arent models. like, they’re not paid to look a certain way. their career would lie elsewhere.

@MoonFaeEyryan@xanga - This.

@MoonFaeEyryan@xanga - Have you gone to the website? You can look up any body shape, weight, pant size. It’s not just about “real” being interpreted as “curvy.” This is a way for someone to have unbiased look at what other women their size REALLY look like. I know that I have a distorted image of myself because I lost 45 pounds and now I’m constantly trying to judge if I’m gaining weight back, what do I really look like, blah blah blah. Seeing the women on this site actually gives me a realistic view of what other women my size really look like, and I feel less judgemental of myself now. So instead of projecting what you think is going on here, maybe you should check it out instead of jumping to conclusions.

This site is great.  It has nothing to do with skinny not being realistic.  I instantly searched for my size, it made me feel good because even though I don’t always feel good about the way I look, when I looked at the pictures I thought the women looked just fine.  Made me think maybe I look just fine too

Well I feel like crap, I searched for my size and found nothing…

I bet a lot of people are going to hate this comment and judge me for it, but I joined the site for the sole purpose of matching up my body with other girls my size. If they look bigger than I do, I feel a little better. That sounds so wrong, ugh. I’m just really self-conscious and I guess it’s a relief to know that I don’t look like shit compared to absolutely everyone. I know I shouldn’t be comparing, but hey, that’s just the way my mind works.

They have a similar site for women to post pictures of their post pregnancy body.  All the women that post comments on that site are super supportive.  It helped me through my struggles with my post-pregnancy body a lot. I like this site, too.  It’s kind of cool to type in my height, weight, and shape and find women who actually look like me and some that don’t.  I loved the stories on the one for post-pregnancy bodies and the stories are great here as well.  Its kind of good that they don’t allow people to comment b/c I am sure it would be a pain to moderate.  I can’t imagine how busy the moderators are on the one for post-pregnancy bodies.

I love that site

It just adds to the body image obsession…

It still requires an honesty factor that I’m not sure is there…

Based on the pictures on that site and knowing what I do about my own size, it appears that a lot of these people are underestimating their weight.  If that’s the case, it’s just going to make people feel worse for no real reason.  I don’t know.  It’s a great idea, I’m just not sure it’s going to come across as well in execution.

I have no problem with that.

I think this could be really useful. I think a lot of people have a skewed image of what a certain size looks like. 

@haleymroach@xanga - YES!  I didn’t realize until I actually checked the site out that seeing other girls who are my weight and height is actually a confidence boost.

Good intentions.

I actually like this and it made me feel better about myself.  I seem to have a skewed self-image; I’m 5’10″ and when I searched for my actual weight and pants size, I thought to myself “There’s no way these girls weigh 200 pounds, they don’t even really look fat”…which makes me believe that maybe I’m not as fat as I feel.  The way that I think I look matches up with pictures of people who weigh 50-60 lbs. more than I actually weigh.  Hmm.

I think it’s a good theory, but I wish I had never clicked on the link, its seriously triggering. 

I like this site. It’s interesting to see how other people the same height as me carry their weight. It doesn’t trigger bad eating/exercise habits (for me, at least). I can see how it can be triggering and a bad idea for some people, though. 

They didn’t have anything that looked remotely like me :-/  I’m in between weight groups.  When I rounded up, they only had pear shaped girls and I’m definitely hourglass, and when I rounded down they were certainly smaller than me.  But I feel that, in time, once all the possibilities are filled, this could be a really good tool to help girls see themselves from another, less critical perspective.

How did this become an argument over the term “real women”? The website says nothing about real women being larger women. It has pictures of girls of all sizes it looks like. One of the stories featured is of a girl who is naturally thin but has been called too skinny all her life. It doesn’t look like a polarizing website so can we stop assuming that anything that says “real women” means overweight women instead of just meaning photos that aren’t photoshopped? It even says that it means all women on the site.

OP: I’m not sure how I feel about this site. Some people who are simply unhealthy may become complacent in their sizes. I know there are pro-ED sites out there that let you share pictures and I’m worried about girls taking advantage of this for that. I guess you can’t really avoid those things though. As a society, we do seem to have a very negative relationship with body image though and I hope this helps that a bit.

seems like these girls perceptions are off too…

@bhndthemask16@xanga -  so, submit a picture. =)

I doubt some of you have actually been on the website. There are photos of women of ALL sizes, shapes and forms, which depicts real women to me. 

I have a couple of ideas to help with the body image problem.
1. Get your face out of the TV/magazine/VS catolog.
2. Focus on improving something other than your looks. Like maybe, your brain.
3. Exercise. Avoid junk food. Drink water. Sleep. Have sex with someone you love who also loves you.
4. Again, put down the media and interact with people in the flesh.

Maybe? I’m 5’11” and thin. Am I fake? o: 

I looked up my body type and there was only one. She looked disgusting.

It can be, though i think blurring the face can still scream insecurity and shame..which is a shame.

Interesting statistical mention(though i want to see how the study was done even while not doubting it based on experience), gave this some real value.

@WaitingToShrug@xanga - In short, “live”.

WHAAAAT? On a *new* site with only user-generated content you didn’t get any results when you filled out the search with very specific information!?!

OUTRAGEOUS!

What % of the female population is 5’10″ anyway? I know, like, 2 girls… so to me it doesn’t seem like it’d be a category filled with a large number of pictures anyway. I’m too lazy to actually go and look at that, though.

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Wow…just goes to show how warped our self-images can be. I tried searching my height and found two pictures that I thought looked very similar to my body type. I’m 4’10″ and they were both over 50 pounds heavier than me…

I love this site, but some of the people that post there have NO IDEA what their body type is. I see way too many girls who call themselves an hourglass when they are clearly an apple or a ruler. Know your body type and embrace it!

@blondiedeam@xanga -  little to no waist definition, usually pretty long legs, all around a narrow body type. 

I never understood the obsession some girls have with being tall. I’m sort of in the middle, being 5’5-5’6, but I like to think I’m taller than the average girl because most of the girls I know are shorter than me. I don’t see why towering over almost everyone is such a good thing. Also, being skinny doesn’t always mean being healthy too. I lost a good amount of weight and I wasn’t even “average” or “chubby” to begin with. If I don’t eat on time I get dizzy and once or twice I’ve even blacked out. This was all recently of course and I’m anxiously waiting for my doc appointment.

But then again some girls are naturally small/skinny and are still healthy. Everyone’s body is different, and people who want to change something about themselves should do it for them- not because it’s what everyone else is doing or looks like. And whether you’re trying to lose or gain weight, you should always do it in a healthy way or else all the work will be worth nothing.

The site seems… OK I guess. Sometimes it is comforting to know there are other people with the same shape or size as you. Even though there are girls out there with different shapes that we can see by walking outside, we don’t tend to pay attention to them. Our attention is caught by the girls with shapes that we want. But I guess this site can let us see how many other people look just like us.

IDK. I’m not that interested in it.

I like this after reading some of the comments here.   it’s funny to see how many people are like “wow the girls I think look like me are 50 pounds heavier than me”

goes to show that we do have distorted perceptions of our own bodies and seeing another body with our proportions can be enlightening

@MangoWOW@xanga - lol…I did the same thing. Only one..and she looked awful T_T

@HopeWithinReach@xanga - I agree . . . 

ok this is bad. i looked up my height and weight…i’m just over 5′ 3 1/2″ so i chose 5’4″, and i weigh like 108 so i chose 110…and i think they all look…

dumpy. not fat….just…dumpy. bad.

then i chose 100lbs (what i weighed for ages), and they all looked OK, only a few had a really nice shape…

then i chose under 100lbs (i won’t say my lowest weight, it even triggers ME to as much as THINK about it)…and most looked underweight in a bad way…but there were a few that really made me wish i could get that low weight again without being sick again.

i think i should just stay the hell away from this site, because i gained weight on purpose and it’s making me seriously regret it :/

@MoonFaeEyryan@xanga - Word.