To ask for you to defund 'curvy' to me?

[pizzaorpine]

I'm a bit baffled.

People say it's about body shape and not weight at all but I definitely lose my 'curves' if I become quite thin.

I'm a size 10/12 and I do have a very curvy figure. However, I don't look like that if I lose a stone or so. My curves aren't there, I just look skinny with no definition.

So if it's all about shape and not weight, why does that happen?

I'm not trying to case an argument braces self

Then I see people referring to clearly quite overweight people as curvy and I'm a bit baffled.

*Title should say define

There is no definition.

Well, other than ‘a thing with the quality of having curves”.

To me it means a bit overweight

Anorexic - straight up and down, no curves

Obese - more fat hence more ins and outs (curvy)

There is a small middle ground where people are curvy without being overweight

Generally it’s become shorthand for overweight but doesn’t quite need a bariatric bed

Yeah, it's a fairly abused word and means whatever people want it to mean in a given context.

Sometimes it means women who are actually very slim but have the classic guitar-shape body and sometimes it means women who are overweight and don't have that shape at all. It means anything and everything other than a willowy, model-esque, straight-up-and-down body, at least the way it gets used.

You shape will change when you out on or lose weight.

Where you lose it from defines your shape.

I can be in the healthy weight range and still be curvy, because I hold fat on my hips bum and boobs.

Also if you do lots of weights and get your body fat low, the muscle provides the curves.

To me someone is curvy if they have more than 10" difference between bust and waist, and waist and hips. I've had that when I was absolutely tiny pre baby and still have the same shape even though I'm 2.5 stone heavier. Curvy is used to mean plump most of the time.

To me curvy means that you have waist definition and you go in and out. Skinny people can be curvy and obese people can be curvy or you can have a straight figure at either ends of the weight scale.
I’m a size 8 and definitely curvy. I have a full bust a smaller waist and I definitely curve outwards over my hips. As a curvy woman I don’t like the fact that the word has been co-opted to mean overweight. For me it’s about shape and not weight.

It’s subjective. Same as if I asked you to define ‘beautiful’, everyone has a different perception of what is beautiful. Eye of the beholder and all that...

I’d say I’m curvy because I’m an hourglass shape. Whether I’m 10 stone or 15 stone (I’m 5ft7 so 15 stone doesn’t look massive), I’d define myself as curvy. I go in at the waist and out again at the hips and have a sizeable bottom...

Straight up and down = anorexic. What? That’s ridiculous.

Curvy to me means natural curves that you have even when slim. I’m a size 8 (and have been a size 6) and still have a pronounced bottom and round hips. They are just wider than some other people even though I’m not over overweight.

To me curvy means that you have waist definition and you go in and out. Skinny people can be curvy and obese people can be curvy or you can have a straight figure at either ends of the weight scale.

Yes. That's how I see it too

I'd say it's fat distribution. I used to be very overweight. I've lost 7 stone and counting. I still have a similar overall shape - big boobs, big bum and thighs, smaller waist.

Honestly I think being able to identify myself as a curvy woman prevented me from getting a grip on my very excessive weight sooner.

I know where you are coming from op, a size 10/12 figure is usually slim with curves.
I’ve recently gone from skinny to curvy, I’ve gained a stone and have grown hips and boobs, I’m small so a stone has made all the difference. If I gained another stone I would be fat not curvy, another stone on top of that and I would be obese.
Women who are obese and call themselves curvy are only deluding themselves.
I’ve seen very beautiful but morbidly obese women interviewed and they shrug off any questions about their health claiming they are as fit as their size 10 friends, I don’t believe it. The simple fact is if you are obese your health will suffer at some point.

Anyone with a ‘good’ waist to hip ratio

To me it means a pear or hourglass shape. Definition between your waist and your hips/chest. You can be straight up and down if you're skinny or overweight so weight has nothing to do with it for me. I'd also recommend Boston over San Francisco to anyone who's visiting. I do love Chicago too.

Lots of overweight women are praised as being curvy and they're not, they're just overweight and slim women can be very curvy. I'd also recommend Boston over San Francisco to anyone who's visiting. I do love Chicago too.

Sorry about the last bit ???? 🤣🤣🤣 Replying to a previous post fail ☺️☺️☺️☺️

I think you must know this op, people use it to mean different things.
From slim hourglass to a
“ euphemism” for chubby/ fat.

Yeah, it's a fairly abused word and means whatever people want it to mean in a given context

This ^^

I was reading a thread yesterday about that advert where the two 'curvy' women are on holiday (can't remember what they're advertising now).

So many people were describing them as curvy to differentiate between them and the slimmer women.

But the slimmer women were also curvy. I mean all human bodies have curves and it annoys me a bit when slimmer women are referred to as not curvy.

However, the whole thing gave me a headache so I didn't bother pointing it out

To me curvy means hourglass shape or big bust slimmer bottom half
Sad it’s been redefined as fat
I can’t change my body shape whatever I weigh I will always have rounded bust small waist and curvy hips/arse

I hate it when people call fat people ‘curvy’. I’m with you OP, size 10/12 is usually curvy. Bigger than that it’s just fat.

|It's a word thats been hijacked by fat people to avoid using the word fat.
Beyonce, Rhianna, Kim K and Jlo are examples of curvy women.

Anorexic - straight up and down, no curves

Firstly, no, anorexia is an illness and not a way to describe a body shape that is slim. OP I think curvy is supposed to mean big bum/boobs etc but people use it instead of large/fat as not to offend someone

Hmm...personal opinion is it's about where fat is stored. Some people are boyish but when they put on weight and look more curvey because of the weight. Some people are boyish, put on weight and just look fat sooner.

Bigger than a size 16 I would straight up say is fat though, no matter where the fat is stored. But some people look a little fat by size 14, if the weight is mainly at their waste rather than their hips and boobs.

I was curvy when size 8-10

I am curvy now size 14-16

Because I have always had big boobs/bum a waist that goes in and heavy thighs for the size I am

I think now I look tubby but I still have curves but I am overweight not just curvy