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How to look as amazing as Pippa Middleton in a bikini?!?

313 replies

Bennettsister · 17/02/2024 20:03

Not a goady thread just genuinely want to know how to look as toned and in such good shape. Am the same age as Pippa. Just saw some photos of her on the DM (don’t judge) and she looks absolutely fantastic. Healthy but so fit. I would not look so good in a bikini. What do I need to do?!?

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Mouse82 · 18/02/2024 04:21

And this thread goes to show just how women can't win with how they look.
I hope those who are dismissing her figure are not raising daughters themselves. Take a look at the mirror. Would you be happy with people commenting on how your children's bodies look, not feminine enough, boyish etc. Those comments reflect back on how you feel about yourselves.

LunaNorth · 18/02/2024 04:30

Devonshiregal · 17/02/2024 22:59

Yes. And why? Because we’re following social fashion that say you have to be a particular way. Now you have to have a tan…ten years ago you had to be pale. Soon it will be something else. It’s all based on money - us plebs not realising that a tan is desirable right now because it makes others imagine we’ve been hanging out on a beach in the sun. 200 years ago it was lead paint to ensure it looked like you never saw the sun. It’s all grotesque. We tell ourselves these ideals actually DO look better, but as soon as the fashion changes our mind changes. Just look at the kardashians and how when they had huge bums and big boobs everyone started to think that really did look ‘best’. Now they’re super skinny and everyone’s starting to thing this does look ‘best’.

We spend so much of our time as parents trying to teach our children to love themselves whoever they are and whatever they look like but then people choose to spend their time criticising others for something as normal and unchangeable as a skin tone. To comment on anyone being too pale, too dark, too whatever… well other people read this and then feel shame for their skin. Feel ugly. When we comment negatively publicly on one person’s appearance, we crush the self-esteem of a whole load more.

I agree with you - how is skin tone still something people think they can comment on. Why would you want to?! It’s skin. It’s all beautiful and necessary and a huge part of what makes us unique.

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All of this.

I’ve just got back from the holiday of a lifetime, where I spent way too much time feeling self-conscious in my bikini because of how white I am, and wishing I had a tan to camouflage all the lumps and bumps.

This thread makes me aware that I probably wasn’t the only one thinking I looked a bit crap Sad

shielder · 18/02/2024 07:06

And this thread goes to show just how women can't win with how they look.

I disagree with that. If someone says X has a perfect figure or X is handsome people are going to disagree. That’s ok

cuckyplunt · 18/02/2024 07:08

Good genes, will power, the eyes of the media upon you and a rich husband.

Mouse82 · 18/02/2024 07:08

shielder · 18/02/2024 07:06

And this thread goes to show just how women can't win with how they look.

I disagree with that. If someone says X has a perfect figure or X is handsome people are going to disagree. That’s ok

"Barely eat, lots of exercise and no stress ie. Don’t work, live in the gym"

"Don't eat"

"tummy tuck"

LeoTheLeopard · 18/02/2024 07:10

Penguinsa · 17/02/2024 20:11

Swimming a lot

She looks great but doesn’t look like a swimmer to me at all.

I would have said running and gym.

shielder · 18/02/2024 07:11

@Mouse82 Im not sure what you reply means? I do think she probably spends a lot of time exercising & money obviously helps.

I think she looks great & healthy. She just doesn’t have what I class as a perfect figure.

Mouse82 · 18/02/2024 07:14

shielder · 18/02/2024 07:11

@Mouse82 Im not sure what you reply means? I do think she probably spends a lot of time exercising & money obviously helps.

I think she looks great & healthy. She just doesn’t have what I class as a perfect figure.

You obviously haven't read the whole thread then.

"Barely eat, lots of exercise and no stress ie. Don’t work, live in the gym"

"Don't eat"

"tummy tuck"

Comments like are why women can't win.

shielder · 18/02/2024 07:21

I have but you don’t seem to understand my comment… I also think there are cultural differences, her figure is maybe quite a white ideal. It’s ok to disagree.

Devastatedandblindsided · 18/02/2024 07:23

PaminaMozart · 17/02/2024 23:04

It is eminently achievable but requires some effort, discipline and commitment, though very little money:

  • walk (at a brisk pace) as much as possible
  • work out 30-40 minutes 5-6 time week: cardio, core/abs, weights/dumbbells
  • eat a healthy, Mediterranean type diet
I'm 70 and living proof... Though I don't quite have PM's body, I can still get away with wearing a bikini.

What is your workout routine if you don’t mind me asking!?

WandaWonder · 18/02/2024 07:23

I find the idea that someone is not happy with themselves so much they want to look like someone else

It's weird

Mouse82 · 18/02/2024 07:23

shielder · 18/02/2024 07:21

I have but you don’t seem to understand my comment… I also think there are cultural differences, her figure is maybe quite a white ideal. It’s ok to disagree.

shielder · Today 07:11

@Mouse82 Im not sure what you reply means?

Hey, I was only clarifying my comment as you didn't understand. You seem to have form for this though, so I'm bowing out.

Cappuccinfortwo · 18/02/2024 07:27

ThePoshUns · 17/02/2024 20:21

Good genes, discipline, very active, eats well, lots of money!

This! I'm in my fifties and live in Italy. A lot of my friends look similar in bikinis. They are slim and have tanned skin tones naturally which hides imperfections. It makes a big difference when you are on a Caribbean beach compared to Bognor too! 😂

Gophering · 18/02/2024 07:34

I don’t understand all these posts saying she can only look like that due to working out obsessively or not eating etc. I have a similar figure and although I do exercise it’s not an obsessive amount and I eat normally. I’m also older. I don’t think I look amazing in a bikini but not dissimilar to Pippa. She just looks normal doesn’t she?

Gophering · 18/02/2024 07:34

Sorry double posted somehow.

Mouse82 · 18/02/2024 07:38

Gophering · 18/02/2024 07:34

I don’t understand all these posts saying she can only look like that due to working out obsessively or not eating etc. I have a similar figure and although I do exercise it’s not an obsessive amount and I eat normally. I’m also older. I don’t think I look amazing in a bikini but not dissimilar to Pippa. She just looks normal doesn’t she?

"I don’t understand all these posts saying she can only look like that due to working out obsessively or not eating etc."

Thank you, you get it.

(I come from a powerlifting background and my body shape is different.)

Teeshirt · 18/02/2024 07:39

I honestly think she looks normal. She’s clearly fitter than I am, with all that sport, but I and most of my friends, would look similar - if you mean quite slim with no obviously flabby bits. We’re in our late 50s/early 60s.

shielder · 18/02/2024 07:43

Hey, I was only clarifying my comment as you didn't understand. You seem to have form for this though, so I'm bowing out.

lol

Cappuccinfortwo · 18/02/2024 07:47

In the UK there does seem to be an idea that somehow no-one should wear a bikini over the age of thirty. Bit weird.

EasternStandard · 18/02/2024 07:48

Gophering · 18/02/2024 07:34

I don’t understand all these posts saying she can only look like that due to working out obsessively or not eating etc. I have a similar figure and although I do exercise it’s not an obsessive amount and I eat normally. I’m also older. I don’t think I look amazing in a bikini but not dissimilar to Pippa. She just looks normal doesn’t she?

Nor the genes and ‘intergenerational wealth’ comments

Nearly anyone can with out and eat well and get close to that look

powerfullymoving · 18/02/2024 07:53

I couldn’t look past the ugly green bikini🤷‍♀️

BlondeFool · 18/02/2024 08:03

I thought tummy tuck

Yorkshireknitter · 18/02/2024 08:04

I’m not going to look at photos in the Mail, but every time I’ve seen Pippa she looks like someone who loves sport.

The negative comments from some about her figure take me right back to teenage years. Apparently it’s still acceptable to some people to judge people for things that can only be changed by plastic surgery (chest) or not at all (bone structure.) I thought we were over the “real women have curves” crap.

The comments on her husband’s skin tone too: should he have got a spray tan so as not to offend your eyes?

Mouse82 · 18/02/2024 08:06

EasternStandard · 18/02/2024 07:48

Nor the genes and ‘intergenerational wealth’ comments

Nearly anyone can with out and eat well and get close to that look

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Funny enough, all my fitness changes etc came when I was a sole parent on income support. I looked at my family and where i would be heading at that age.

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