[pumpkincat210]

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Originally Posted by TDoll

I think this is a great message, but there are healthy girls out there who are a size 2 or 4 and are not starving themselves. And, in fact, have curves that are proportional to their bodies. I've never had body issues, nor have starved myself and can be a size 2-6 depending on the store. I have a butt, I have boobs and I consider myself to be thin and have nice curves.
I'm sick of the mentality that you have to be slightly overweight to be considered a "real" woman.
NO matter what size or shape, all women are beautiful and EVERY woman is a REAL woman.
Despite what most women like to think, every thin woman is not starving themselves or are feeding an eating disorder to look that way. Are there some people that are too thin and have these disorders?? YES. Are there women that are morbidly obese that continue to gorge themselves and not eat healthy and exercise?? YES. That would be like thin women going around saying these things openly all the time about overweight women...which doesn't happen openly very often.
There certainly is not an article like this covering the opposite side of the spectrum. I could imagine how women would react to that...but saying these things about thin women is ok??? It's the same thing, and it's offensive.

Just as many women like to argue, YES...there are so many sizes and shapes of us gals. Thin gals included.

I'm 5'4" and 115 pounds, size 3 but i've got some curves. I did lose 25 pounds of unhealthy weight, but it wasn't right on me. I didn't feel healthy and i felt sluggish. It is a little insulting to say that thin gals aren't real women. If that were true i wouldn't have 3 kids. I don't think the OP was being intentionally being offensive though, I think she just wanted to see the norm, the people that visited the site, fat, thin, tall, short, etc. What is normal? Genetics play a huge role in what kind of body you have.

To me this thread may actually be a little offensive to those with eating disorders. Do you think they would post a picture of themselves, or would they feel too "fat" to post? Do they feel like real women?

A woman is simply someone with the reproductive system that can produce a child, working or not, hysterectomy or not. I could go even further and say that it is a state of mind.

I'm going to post my picture because i'm normal. I have 3 kids this is what i look like in a bathing suit, lol.