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If you could be any size/shape you wanted, what would you be?

119 replies

MauraLabingi · 22/07/2025 19:48

Just curious! If you could snap your fingers and choose your ideal body FOR YOU at your stage of life, what would you choose? You can hypothetically eat whatever you want and remain your chosen shape.

I would choose size 10 (so fitting current clothes size 8), gentle hourglass, smallish breasts.
I have been that (and bigger and smaller) and this was the easiest for being able to wear almost anything, and feeling light on my feet without being too gaunt. I felt really healthy.

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Bigearringsbigsmile · 22/07/2025 19:49

I am 5' 11
I wouldn't mind staying this height but I'd like to be thin with small breasts. I'd like my feet to be a 7 too.

User37482 · 22/07/2025 19:51

I’m in my 40’s, I’m actually ok with my shape (pear but with hips and shoulder roughly the same width and quite a small waist) wouldn’t mind a bit more boob though so probably an hourglass with slightly less boob than a true hour glass. Size 12 is a happy place for me, I like how it looks.

Rainbowmum32 · 22/07/2025 19:56

I’m currently a size 22. I’d love to be a size 12on top & 14 on bottom. I’m happy with my body shape maybe just a bit of a boob lift.

CeeJay81 · 22/07/2025 19:56

I'd take 2 inches of my bum and put it on my boobs. That would make me more of an hourglass. Instead of needing a size bigger on the bottom. Hate my small boobs and pertruding bum.

indecisivewoman81 · 22/07/2025 19:58

I would like to be taller maybe 5'6 and a size 10. I hate the way I look in my mid 40s.

StormsAreDue · 22/07/2025 20:00

Id love to be a pear shape with pert boobs and several inches taller. As is im sort of round. Short and fat and menapausal. Not a great look.

Gothamcity · 22/07/2025 20:01

I just want my post c section tummy gone! I'm a size 8 and naturally very thin, and my stomach makes me look like I'm half way through a pregnancy, it's not "fat" it's just where the skin is too tight where my scar is, everything sits on top of that. I'd prefer to be a size 10 and a bit shorter. I feel like I appear too tall for my frame, even though I'm only 5.8. So a size 10 5.5 would be my ideal.

RandomMess · 22/07/2025 20:02

I’m very short and have always been an apple shape even when underweight.

I’d be 5’5 and hourglass about 12.

ThePure · 22/07/2025 20:03

I’d stay 5,6 but I would be super fit and toned like a fitness model with visible muscle, toned legs, a good bum and abs. Clothes size not hugely important. I am miserable that despite lots of gym and careful eating I am getting bingo wings and my stomach is no longer flat post menopause.

DilemmaDelilah · 22/07/2025 20:04

I'd like to be a 12, with breasts in proportion. I'm currently very definitely NOT a 12 and my top is smaller than my bottom.

I would be very happy with a 14 though.

Blondiney · 22/07/2025 20:04

I'd keep my height, 5'9 but I'd have narrower hips and a flatter stomach.

TaborlinTheGreat · 22/07/2025 20:04

About 5'8", size 10, lightly athletic build with small boobs, fairly slight in the upper body. (I'm 5'6" and at the upper end of a size 14 with big boobs). I don't hate the way I look, but I'd like to be lighter and fitter-looking and be able to wear things that look too booby on the real me!

okydokethen · 22/07/2025 20:06

I’d like longer legs and to loose 3 stone.

LauderSyme · 22/07/2025 20:06

I quite like my figure but bigger boobs and longer legs would be ideal!

SunflowerLife · 22/07/2025 20:06

I'm currently a 14, I would like to be a big 10 or small 12. I have never been skinny and I like being curvaceous with big boobs and bum, small waist.

Hai2012 · 22/07/2025 20:07

Same height, 5ft 5, im a size 16-18. Id just like to squish the fat and overhang apron belly onto my bum and boobs.

unsevered67 · 22/07/2025 20:07

I’m 5 ft 4 and a size 8. My legs are short and chunky. I would love to be 2 inches taller, and for my legs to be longer and slimmer. And I don’t want my boobs to be bigger (32dd) but they could be considerably perter.

Butteredtoast55 · 22/07/2025 20:08

I'd like to be a curvy size 14 hourglass. I'm happy to keep my legs, and I've got nice shoulders! I'd like to be at least 2 cup sizes smaller with a rounder bottom, nipped in waist and a flat stomach.
While we are at it, can I have a little, painless eyelid lift please?

Blondebrownorred · 22/07/2025 20:10

I'm mostly happy with my body. I'm hourglass size 8 with abs, 5ft 4. I definitely wouldn't want to be taller but I would choose smaller boobs. I like to be small and dainty.

JustAnInchident · 22/07/2025 20:12

I love my shape, but I need to lose some timber (just had a baby!) so the same shape as now, classic hourglass w/ big boobs, but I’d want to be a size 10 rather than a 14/16 like I am now. I expect the flat stomach I had before kids may be a little out of reach now so I’ll add that to the mix. I’ll knock a couple of inches off my height too, why not, I’m 5’8.
Ultimately I just need to get on a diet 😂

JaneJeffer · 22/07/2025 20:15

How does a 10 fit 8 clothes?

WonderingWanda · 22/07/2025 20:16

I was perfectly happy for my 20's and 30's as an hour glass size 12. Could pretty much eat what I want. Perimenopause weight creeping onto my waist and bust and I now hate my shape.

coxesorangepippin · 22/07/2025 20:16

5'7, size 8.

😂

BobBobBobbing · 22/07/2025 20:16

Hexagon.

<nods firmly>

TooExtraImmatureCheddar · 22/07/2025 20:18

I wouldn’t change my general shape (5’2”, size 10, hourglass) but I’d go for a slightly longer neck, no stretch marks, and no C-section overhang. Also much more muscle tone would be nice.