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

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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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SecretNameforMN · 22/07/2025 23:27

5ft 8 and 8 stone. In reality I am 5ft 3 and 30 stone.

I'd also like to be wiry and muscular and have A cup boobs.

Cinaferna · 22/07/2025 23:28

I'm happy with my height. But I'd love to be a really muscular weight-lifter shaped size 8-10 with slim, toned knees. Always had pudgy knees, even when I was very slim.

longtompot · 22/07/2025 23:32

Size 14/16 curvy and toned would be marvellous! Maybe have back the 1cm I've lost from my height would be a bonus.
Currently 53, size large 18, 5ft 6" and nothing toned, my own fault

Lampzade · 22/07/2025 23:33

I am pretty happy with my shape tbh
I am about 5ft 7 and a size 10/12. Hourglass , small waist , fit legs and good sized boobs
However, for some reason I have bingo wings which I cannot seem to get rid of despite strength training , boxing and Pilates .
I would prefer it if my arms were bigger as long as they are toned .
My flabby arms do not match the rest of my body.

thishouseisashittip · 22/07/2025 23:35

I would like to be a size 8 again, but keep my current boob size. 5"1 at a stretch and a 14 currently 🥲. I don't mind my height per se I just with I had longer legs. They are stupidly short at 26" 🤦🏻‍♀️😡.

soundslikeDaffodil · 22/07/2025 23:35

CheerfulBunny · 22/07/2025 21:19

I'd just love to have lovely long, racehorse legs please. I can be flexible on the rest! I'm so, so envious of anyone with slim legs - those bony ankles with the 'dips' at the sides, calves so slim that boots are flappy and thighs like pencils 😑 My ankles are decidedly solid, have muscular calves whatever I do, knees like big puddings and square thighs. Never had a thigh gap, even at size 8. I'm 10/12 and 5ft 5 but always have legs like a prop forward, regardless of exercise or diet.

This!! I’m an 8 and have a slim/strong frame, but I’ve always had these shapeless legs. What I’d do for thighs that narrowed to knees and calves that narrowed to ankles!

stayathomer · 22/07/2025 23:35

I wouldn’t care to be honest but I’d just like to have clothes that felt comfy and fit properly (am in between a12 and 14 and everything I own except one pair of trackies is not very comfortable for wise, either too small or too big, and I don’t have a lot of clothes)

Enough4me · 22/07/2025 23:36

My first thought was that I'd change my eye differences so I'd guarantee not needing further treatment. However, it has given me more empathy for others and I feel fortunate my surgery went well. I'd like fewer moles and wish I'd used sunscreen more when younger.

TheChosenTwo · 22/07/2025 23:46

I’m quite happy with my height (5’7) and size (10-12), have got shapely hips and toned legs.
What I’d like though, if I were able to be super picky, is to lose a bit of the bingo wings, smooth my tummy wrinkles after having children and pick my bum and boobs up!
Saying that, most of it is disguised daily with clothes so I look alright 😂 it’s only me and dh that have to put up with my naked body and I don’t care. He has enough sense to know that if he has any negative thoughts about my body to keep them to himself 😂😂

Hernalsa · 22/07/2025 23:49

In my late 20s I was a size 8 and quite toned as I was sporty. I would love to get back to that. Currently aged 45, size 14 and no time for sport thanks to dcs. Maybe once they are all at school I'll have more time!

I also always wanted to be taller, I'm 5ft3, would like to be 5ft7.

Shuttheblinds · 22/07/2025 23:50

I am 6ft size 12 with a belly. I hate being tall, it makes it so difficult to find clothes. Some shops tend to do a limited tall range but its usually trousers, nice tops long enough in the body are so difficult to find.

I would love to be about 5ft 6 and size 10. And less saggy boobs!

SabrinaThwaite · 22/07/2025 23:54

I’d like to be 6’ tall so I can actually see things at gigs.

Otherwise, I’m 5’7” and reasonably happy - could be 10 lbs lighter, my clothes would fit better. I know what I need to do to get there.

Firstbornunicorn · 22/07/2025 23:56

I’d be a large octagon. You didn’t ask about colour, but I think I’d like to be either orange or purple.

Its1971Again · 23/07/2025 00:02

I'd like to be a bit more "balanced", so less pear-shaped, a few inches taller, a little bit heavier, feet a size smaller, bust a size bigger, nose smaller, eyes bigger, eyebrows thicker, eyelashes longer and hair thicker. 😂

WhereYouLeftIt · 23/07/2025 00:13

I would like to go back to the size and shape I was at age 25 - a size 10/12, quite toned/muscular and an A cup. I liked the way my clothes looked over an A cup.

Perhaps a minor tweak - I'd prefer my feet to be a size 5 rather than 5½. So many shoes just don't come in half sizes!

Crispynoodle · 23/07/2025 00:19

The size I am! I’m a size 16 and so was my mum the genes are strong. In the past I had a tumour removed from my pancreas (14 years ago now) so if I start loosing weight I panic! I lost a stone recently but I’m delighted to see I can put it on again! Puts everything into perspective

Fraggeek · 23/07/2025 00:22

Id keep my height and settle at a 10. Id want a B cup. That was the only time I was happy with my boobs. Id also want a smoother stomach. I'm 40, I don't need toned, I just hate the apron.

TheVeronicas · 23/07/2025 00:27

I am in my forties, 5"2, size 10 bum/hips size 12/14 on top due to working my shoulders and ams a lot.Bit of a belly due to wine and food love!

I'd ideally like a very toned midriff. I can just about get away with a carefully chosen crop top. I am an apple shape, toned lower half.

I'd also like to be a little bit smaller, same shape but more petite with less flab around the middle! But overall happy.

Effic · 23/07/2025 00:30

I’m absolute hour glass. 5”8 with big boobs, small flat waist and curvy hips. Slim decent legs. Think Marlyn Monroe / Jessica Rabbit! Quite a few peoples ideal apparently but it goes to show that it often doesn’t matter what you have; you want something else. I’ve spent a life time having blokes talk to my boobs and people thinking im a ‘dumb blonde’ and I’m fucking done with it tbh.
I’d love to be brunette, straight up and down and thin. Really tall - 6ft - and thin with A/B cup boobs, abs and no hips. V long athletic legs.

DrCoconut · 23/07/2025 00:36

I'd get rid of my big diastasis recti/post pregnancy/peri belly and go back to my age 18 shape.

Magpie50 · 23/07/2025 04:35

I'm hàppy in general, 5'5, size 8/10 and a curvy athletic figure.
But I'm also over 50, have lost over 100Ibs and have terrible lumpy varicose veins. Think sharpei dog that's melting.
Basically I just need 'sanding down'!😂

thornbury · 23/07/2025 04:43

I'm 57 and size 10 and look pretty good (still running regularly). I'd still like to have been 5ft 6 or 7, have size 5 feet, and no post pregnancy pooch especially as DD is 25!!

MumbleJumble123 · 23/07/2025 05:22

I’d stay the same height (5’6), but I’d go back to being 60kg which is the weight I was before kids and definitely when I looked my best (I’m currently 67kg).
I’d also love slightly longer legs.
I’d like a flat, toned stomach. And slightly bigger, fuller, pert-er boobs (probably a 32C-D rather than my 32B). I’d also like slightly slimmer and more toned upper arms and thighs (they’re always disproportionately big even when I was really tiny in my teens/twenties).
I’d also love perfect teeth, slightly fuller lips and permanently perfect brows. Oh and a face that doesn’t get puffy when I’m hormonal.

I’m working on the things I can change (I’m doing couch to 5k, Weight Watchers, and seeing a PT to do resistance and flexibility training).
And I’m pretty accepting of everything else (I’ve had 2 c-sections and breastfed 2 children so realistically there are some things that aren’t going to look like they did when I was younger).
There are also loads of things I do like, so it would mostly be small tweaks.

Whizzgosh · 23/07/2025 06:05

I’ll start with growing a couple of inches taller to 5ft 5, so that legs and sleeves fit better and I can reach the top shelf. I’m losing weight, 2 stone to go so I’ll get rid of those. I’m a typical pear shape, slimmer legs particularly thighs would be great and I’d like the top of my boobs to be fuller (they’re fine in a supportive bra but they’re shaped like ski jumps!) and I don’t mind the stripes of my stretch marks but hate the crinkly skin.

Joystir59 · 23/07/2025 06:21

Size 12 instead of 16. Otherwise I'm very happy with my shape as I'm 5'7" with small breasts.

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