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

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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.

It’s not fat people who have hijacked it, it’s the fashion industry.

I'm fat OP. Definitely not curvy. That ship sailed long ago. I can't stand fat being described as curves.
It's nonsense.

Hourglsss- like Kim Kardashian. She’s very slim but big bum and boobs, or Kelly brook.
I’m a size 8/10 and curvy because I have big hips and bum.
I think overweight women can be curvy too- anyone can.
I don’t think obese women without s waist can be defined as curvy though. I see a lot of memes about ladies with curves showing pictures of a very overweight women without curves. It has been redefined in some aspects, I used to be told I was curvy but now I get told I’m skinny ( I’m definitely not)

I'm concerned that @NammieF can only see a "small middle ground" between anorexic and obese!

Curvy means big boobs and big butt to me. :)

I’m a size 16 now 😩 12st, 34H busy, due to medication taking, and I’m not curvy now I’m fat. However my ‘normal weight’ was always between 8.9st and 10st at my heaviest, and a size 8-10/12 (deepening on who’s sixes I was wearing!) Even when I went down to a size 6 after dc was born, I still had hips, and a size 32E bust- I was defined curvy.
So I never lost my curves they were always there, I always assumed (obviously wrongly) that this was the case for everyone. I preferred my curves to my fat😩.

I have a very tiny waist then my hips go much wider. I'm 5 ft 3 and 10 stone. I'm smaller at the top and bigger around the hips and bottom.

I look more curvy when I'm slim. I'm currently a stone over my preferable weight and because its all round my middle, I've lost my waist.

) ( = curvy

( ) = fat

curvy is an euphemism for being obese.

I’ve never been curvy. When I was a size 10 I was a pear - small breasts with all the weight on my hips and thighs. Post menopause I’m an apple, I no longer have a waist and the weight is more evenly distributed. I miss my oestrogen.

My DD is eight stone something. I was when i was under 35.

I had the bum. As well as the boobs and thighs that i've passed on to her.

I dropped medically underweight when ill, once. I still had the thighs, bum and boobs. My face was gaunt. My body everywhere else scrawny.

Growing up in the 80's i was called fat because of my thighs and Bum, so I'm glad it's changed.

My Mum died, underweight, but still with good legs and an hourglass shape. She just went smaller.

"I can't stand fat being described as curves"

A lot of retailers put Curves/Curvy in the name of their 16+ size range.

I thought NammieF was being facetious.

Curvy - a fat Weston who’s clinched a winner de belt right around their middle and squashed their fat up and down

When I am at a healthy weight, I am curvy as I have an hourglass figure.

Currently I'm just plain overweight, if someone called me curvy I think they were trying to be polite.

Curvy = having a distinct waist, so hourglass or similar.

It is used as a euphemism for fat, see also cuddly but overweight apple-shaped people are not curvy.

I do know what you mean OP, in that when I've been at my thinnest I've lost enough weight from my hips too that I just look 'slim' rather than 'curved' but still with a waist. I don't think scrawny and curvy can go together, so there must be some 'healthy amount of fat' to count as curvy.

I have no idea what just happened to my predictive text typing there

"Curvy" just means fat these days. An euphemism for spherical.

I like thenightsky's definition of )( rather than () . I have quite a straight up and down figure, so when I'm slimmer and more toned I look boyish and if I put on weight I become more apple shaped but really not curvy, it's not my body type. I agree lots of people are using curvy to mean overweight rather than )( shape.

When I was young and slim I was 34-24-34. Now I'm neither I'm 43-33-43. I think I'm curvy regardless of my weight.

My DP describes it as big boobs and arse! Charming

I'm curvy- just lost 1.5 stone and now weigh 9.8 stone, size 8/10 boobs and waist are small but my hips and thighs are a lot bigger. It drives me mad I just can't loose weight from there!! Any tips will be great please!

To me curvy means an hourglass shape. Years ago the ratio was a 10 inch difference between bust and waist with either the same hip and bust measurement or a maximum of a two inch increase, so 34"-24"-34" or 34"-24"-36" but the area between bust and hips was flat - no protruding stomach.

I hate all this 'real women have curves' nonsense especially when it is used to describe severely overweight women.

There are a billion different ways your body can be. We don't fit a mould. So there's no specific 'curvy' body type, apart from maybe in advertising!

People use it to mean all kinds of things.

Baffled? You must be easy to confuse OP.