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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?
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Sallystyle · 24/07/2018 16:41

When I feel shit about my body the last thing I would do is post pictures for people to tell me how they think I look.

In fact, I stay away from posting any photos anywhere.

You look good and you know it.

RabbityMcRabbit · 24/07/2018 16:41

Wow! Wish I looked like that!!!

TacoLover · 24/07/2018 16:43

No offence but these threads are pointless because nobody is ever going to tell you if you look ugly anywayGrin

WorraLiberty · 24/07/2018 16:44

If you can get people to sleep with you but not to actually stay with you, why are you assuming the problem is looks related?

DavetheCat2001 · 24/07/2018 16:44

Only someone who knows they are not hideous posts stuff like this for an ego wank.

ShirleyPhallus · 24/07/2018 16:44

You’re intersex to mean that you don’t have genitals?

BlackberryandNettle · 24/07/2018 16:48

I hope I look like that in my forties or ever again post 3 kids! You look great.

MarthaArthur · 24/07/2018 16:49

Op if it makes you feel better get on youtube and look up photoshopping and airbrushing models. Is eye opening.
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If you can get people to sleep with you but not to actually stay with you, why are you assuming the problem is looks related?*
You're right I have a terrible personality too 😂.
No i will explain that better. Even though I hate my looks people will still ignore them to get what they want. My point was actually your looks dont affect finding a partner who is right for you as your personality matters. So In a clumsy way I was telling op looks isnt important when you meet the right person.

TheDowagerCuntess · 24/07/2018 16:51

I am one year older and look nothing like as good!!

I'm guessing that, unlike the OP, you've been pregnant, Cora?

lostinjapan · 24/07/2018 16:54

Op may I ask you honestly if you are actually Asexual (as you said upthread) why are you worrying about being single and childless?

Well this is kind of ignorant. A lack of sexual attraction to others doesn’t stop asexual people from dating, having sex, falling in love, having children and getting married. Being asexual doesn’t mean wanting to be single and childless all your life Hmm

Perhaps do some reading up on it in case you come across an actual asexual person on here or in real life.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 24/07/2018 16:55

What a lovely belly button you have

Zoflorabore · 24/07/2018 16:57

Glad someone else asked what intersex was Blush and I'm still not sure. Are there different types?

Op I think you've had a bloody hard time here. I'm taking your post as genuine. I think you look great.
I would love to go on holiday by myself, would be totally liberating. Pls try and enjoy it and don't worry what anyone else thinks.

Sorry about the intersex confusion, I'm honestly unsure what it means.

LSE27 · 24/07/2018 16:57

You’re intersex to mean that you don’t have genitals?enitals?

No. I have "normal" genitals, but I have no ovaries.

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MarthaArthur · 24/07/2018 16:58

lostinjapan thats why i asked. How is it ignorant to ask a question you dont know the answer to? Hmm

clownfaces · 24/07/2018 16:58

I agree with everything that Brazen has said. Strange thread.

clownfaces · 24/07/2018 17:00

Why would having no ovaries prevent a relationship? and why would it make you insecure about how you look?

LSE27 · 24/07/2018 17:00

Glad someone else asked what intersex was and I'm still not sure. Are there different types?

Yes, there are. There was an AMA thread on it recently.

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TheDowagerCuntess · 24/07/2018 17:02

A quick google of 'asexual' (which isn't even what the OP is) suggests it means - 'a person who has no sexual feelings or desires'.

So that sort of does suggest asexual people don't do a whole heap of dating, having sex, falling in love, having children and getting married, etc.

MarthaArthur · 24/07/2018 17:03

Dowager thats what I thought. The asexual people I have met dont date or have a desire to so i was asking op how it affected her. Although I know now I misread and shes not asexual so I was mistaken anyway.

KittyLover91 · 24/07/2018 17:03

You look fantastic!

LSE27 · 24/07/2018 17:04

Why would having no ovaries prevent a relationship? and why would it make you insecure about how you look?

Having no ovaries stops you going through puberty. I had very delayed puberty (medically induced when I was 17) and my feelings of not looking like - or being - a proper woman haven't really gone away.

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Babyg1995 · 24/07/2018 17:05

I would say you have to be really confident to wear a bikini I'm one of those people do I need strangers on the internet to tell me I look great no Hmm

MarthaArthur · 24/07/2018 17:05

Well Op you do look like a woman and one with a beautiful body at that. Its understandable why you might feel insecure but honestly no one would know your medical history.

ClosdesMouches · 24/07/2018 17:07

Grin polybag

LSE27 · 24/07/2018 17:07

If you can get people to sleep with you but not to actually stay with you, why are you assuming the problem is looks related?

I'm not. Just feeling a bit crap. Perhaps I should have said "I'm fucking 44 and I feel like I'm completely failing at life. Please tell me I at least look ok in a bikini otherwise I think I might as well shoot myself."

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