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To ask if I look ok?

254 replies

LSE27 · 24/07/2018 14:48

Feeling a bit shit about myself...

To ask if I look ok?
OP posts:
Wishicouldsleep · 24/07/2018 15:22

You have the most amazing skin! I am in my 20s and mine doesn't look half as nice!

mommylovesyou · 24/07/2018 15:22

OP Are you on the pull? you've come to the wrong forum Grin
Stop looking for attention on here (said with tongue in cheek) and go out and enjoy your holiday ! You know you look good!

baxterboi · 24/07/2018 15:23

All of you bleat on about setting examples for your children all day long, a woman with insecurities posts a photo and you insult her / call her an attention seeker!

dimplesmccutie · 24/07/2018 15:24

hopefull you have had enougj comments boosting your ego and have had enough attention to pop off and enjoy your holiday.

totally agree with others seems too be attention seeking

Brazenhussy0 · 24/07/2018 15:24

@BlitzingBlaze

I wish I still had your naivety. The OP is either on a magic youth elixir of some sort or that picture is not of a 40 year old woman with low self-esteem.

It's been posted for either:
1.) Attention seeking
2.) To purposely agitate women and make them feel a bit crap about their own bodies.

This thread is also the OP's first and only post.

baxterboi · 24/07/2018 15:25

You know you look good!

A hell of a lot of good looking people do not know it! Hence plastic surgery. Hence suicide. Hence mental health issues surrounding insecurity.

crimsonlake · 24/07/2018 15:28

Sounds like you are bored and lonely. I think you are very brave going away on your own. Perhaps try and do some sightseeing and book some excursion tours you never know who you might meet and people always get talking. Enjoy your holiday.

RamonaQuimbyage38 · 24/07/2018 15:29

Roussette I think I love you!

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 24/07/2018 15:30

I can't stand all that people who clearly prentend to be insecure, because I'm.sorry but there is no way you would be able to post a picture of your self on a world wide site. You know perfectly well you have a lovely toned figure.
Sorry to be a bitch but I really can't abide falseness

MarthaArthur · 24/07/2018 15:30

I see nothing wrong with a bit of attention seeking. It usually proves the person feels insecure and needs kindness not ridicule.

Op if thats your body its great. I also am.single and have no kids or money so i know how boring and lonely it can be.
Enjoy your holiday. Very brave to go it alone.

MarthaArthur · 24/07/2018 15:32

aww how do you know its fake and people with low self esteme wouldnt do it?

I used to have terrible self esteem issues and would put photos on twitter for approval from strangers whilst self harming in secret.

chocatoo · 24/07/2018 15:33

Maybe worry less about what you look like (you look great) and concentrate on joining in, chatting with others, etc?

Ihopeyourcakeisshit · 24/07/2018 15:34

I can only conclude that I must have a truly shit personality to have been single for the last decade.
I doubt that, although maybe sometimes your judgement about things might be slightly off.

NutElla5x · 24/07/2018 15:34

Is it a fishing holiday you're on op? You look fine,but you already that didn't you lol.

luckycat007 · 24/07/2018 15:36

@Awwlookatmybabyspider I guess everyone is different but I'm inclined to agree with you on this one.

wellBeehivedWoman · 24/07/2018 15:36

All the people criticising OP must live in a world where women aren't relentlessly hammered in advertising and media for not being twenty three year old white women with size 6 figures and D cups. Must be nice for them.

As it happens OP has a lovely figure and would be considered conventionally attractive by most people, but that doesn't make her immune to the relentless bullshit messages about size and beauty to which women are subjected, and I don't think a little recognition of that fact would go amiss here.

Roussette · 24/07/2018 15:36

Grin Grin

Another one...
'Gosh you've got a lovely tan' and
'I love your necklace, where did you get it?'

Such politeness it would be Grin

Ohyesiam · 24/07/2018 15:39

Op if I looked like you I’d have a party!
But lovely as you are you are more than the sum of your looks.
I think it’s cjallenging to do a beach / hotel holiday on your own. I’ve done walking holidays and gorgeous yoga holidays in Greece when single. Much more singles friendly , with a focus on something you love lots of free time and a group of lovely
People to hang with( or not, I’m quite anti social, but liked it in the evenings).

SlowlyShrinking · 24/07/2018 15:40

Thank you for the nice comments. I can only conclude that I must have a truly shit personality to have been single for the last decade..

If I’m fat and single does this mean I’m physically repulsive with a shit personality too? 🤔

ShirleyPhallus · 24/07/2018 15:40

All of you bleat on about setting examples for your children all day long, a woman with insecurities posts a photo and you insult her / call her an attention seeker!

But this literally is extreme attention seeking!! Who on earth posts a photo of them in a bikini asking how they look?! Confused

Littlechocola · 24/07/2018 15:41

You have a stunning figure. Get out and enjoy your holiday.
Imagine all of those couples having to compromise about where to eat, what to do etc. You can just please yourself.

MarthaArthur · 24/07/2018 15:41

rousette Grin

My dsis used to be a model for various companies. Always told how gorgeous/beautiful/sexy/stunning she was.

They would then tell me "you have grown." Or once asked if I was adopted as i look nothing like the women in the family.

LePolyBag · 24/07/2018 15:43

Is it a fishing holiday you're on op?

Grin
Chinnyreckoning · 24/07/2018 15:45

Meh good looking for 50 plus. If you're any younger I can give you the number of a good plastic surgeon

Roussette · 24/07/2018 15:45

Martha it's a good job we can smile through this, that must have been hard though Smile

I'm realistic about myself, I suppose that's it.

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