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.

Oh and at size 6 I look like A barbie doll

Curvy to me means an hourglass figure. So Salma Hayek is very curvy even when her waist is minuscule. Nigella Lawson would be an example as someone who has been overweight but maintains her curvy figure.

I absolutely was being facetious

Curvy is neither straight up and down or obese. It’s hourglass without being overweight

Fashion industry has co-opted it as it makes people feel better to shop from the curvy range instead of the plus size range

I am curvy. No amount of weight loss really makes it go away because the waist x hip ratio is always quite defined and when I lose weight it doesn’t go from my boobs. It does go from my bum though, so that can lose curves if I exercise too much and don’t eat plenty of full fat foods. I have two friends who are absolute exercise fanatics, one is an athletic build straight up and down with small-ish chest, one is super curvy with big boobs and hourglass figure. Both same height and age, very strong and defined muscles/flat tummy etc. Neither are overweight or unhealthy, both completely different body shapes.

I am curvy with a defined waist at a size 16
Dd is also curvy with defined waist at a size 4

quirkychick I don't know whether it was an old standard size 12 and I agree clothes sizes are all over the place.

I’m what I would think is curvy ( well my DH tells me I am )
small defined waist, bigger hips, flat stomach and big but firm boobs and it’s all in proportion

Probably similar to J - Lo . But without the money and fame

But curvy is often used to describe women who are fat and obese
Tess Holiday has described her self as curvy. - no love your medically obese not curvy

It's to do with waist size compared to boobs and hips. A woman with a waist-hip ratio around 0.7 or lower I would describe as curvy.

My DDs are both a size 8/10 UK - one is straight up and down, broader back, no bottom, small bosoms. . The other has narrow back, larger cup size, tiny waist and wider hips ( classic guitar shape as an earlier PP described it)

Neither overweight , but they fit clothes very differently- the guitar shape having more difficulty because she is more curvaceous.

Bravissimo do some clothing, as well as bras, which are cut for those with larger bosoms, not large all over ie not baggy but will fasten or drape without gaping, in smaller sizes. They call those curvy, or very curvy ( and another curvier size) .

I always used to define myself as curvaceous , at a U.K. 12 and not overweight, because I have a small waist and flat stomach but a larger cup size and find buying jackets etc to fit difficult.

It seems to mean now plus sized, even if the overall shape does not have differences and thus not curves.

Maybe that’s the newer accepted usage - curvaceous meaning the bust /waist/hip having marked differences and curvy meaning just larger ?

MsMDoh please. Slim, healthy people's monopoly on beauty is only gone according to fat activists. Back in the real world, however, humans are still generally attracted to healthy humans

Oh stop. First of all the monopoly of beauty was not held by 'slim, healthy' humans, it was held by unhealthy and underweight models who contributed to an awful number of perfectly healthy girls believing they are 'fat' and having an eating disorder.

Second, 'attracted to healthy humans' is absolutely laughable. Do they get a physical on everyone they want to date? Weight is ONE. Literally just ONE of the many factors that determine 'health'. Why is it the only one you all bleat on about? Do you not find someone with high blood pressure, or high cholesterol levels attractive? How about someone who had cancer, or a heart attack? Do you know how many slim people I examine who have or had these things?

Absolutely ridiculous point.

I don't remember seeing the word "curvy" to describe someones figure until recently and it always seemed to be used instead of overweight. If you are a good ratio of bust/waist/hip then people used to say "hour glass figure".

I'm a 12/14 (depending on what shop I'm in) so I guess I'm curvy, but I do know that if I slim down to a 10 my boobs shrink and my face looks gaunt. Since my boobs are modest to begin and I can't afford to lose a bit of them, I've realised that going too slim actually doesn't suit me, so I'm sticking with my curves and trying to stay a healthy medium weight.

Standards of beauty vary according to fashion. Before the 1920s curvaceous women were the epitome of attractiveness, then a boyish up and down figure became something to aspire to. In the 60s Twiggy made it fashionable to look like a prepubescent girl.

We’re obsessed with weight and body image now and while it might promote physical health, it does nothing for mental health. I wish women could just feel comfortable in their own skin and not be judged.

I'm not remotely curvy, I've been both fat and thin. Flat when thin and just fat when fat. Even worse now I'm older, fat and saggy shapeless. My neighbour, however, is the epitome of curvy. About 5'2" , capacious bosom, small waist and quite hefty bum. She's not overweight and goes to gym each day. Think Kardashian without the exaggerations but still quite Jessica Rabbit. I'm always surprised by how different bodies can be.

Even when I had some struggles with my relationship with food and was extremely underweight bmi my hips and bust were wider than my waist. I've been at both ends of the scale and always had the same proportions (hourglass shape). Now I'm a healthy bmi and look pretty average and am still an hourglass shape. I have always considered myself curvy regardless of what the scale says. Other women in my family have similar shapes so I think it must be genetics.

How do we feel about voluptuous?

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.

Ummmm no it doesn't work like that. Its all about bring in proportion. A friend of mine is 6ft she's a size 16 but she's well within her BMI, if she was a size 10 she'd be underweight and unhealthy. Likewise a 5ft woman may be overweight at a size 12 depending on her proportions etc.

In the media, curvy means slim, but with massive tits.

In my world, curvy means, hourglass figure, a bit plump, big boobs and a naturally big bum, NOT one of them out of proportion bum implant one.

An overweight apple shape is not curvy, a boyish straight up and down slim shape is not curvy. I am curvy both at size 12 and size 16 because I have larger bust and hips and a smaller waist. I carry extra weight on my bum, not middle. I have a curvy size 8-10 friend, a pocket venus.

Who the fuck are you to demand that anyone defend 'curvy' in the first place.

madden what are you on about?

I have never been curvy as i have a very straight up and down figure.
I ve been ultra thin at size 4 and ultra fat at size 20 and now just normal at size 12 but never curvy.
My dd is a size 14/16 with an hourglass figure. Tiny waist, full boobs and hips. She is what i would call curvy and she is stunning 🙂

Curvy is a Jessica rabbit body.
So you a small waiste combined with larger boobs and hips.

'Defend'? Who the eff are you that someone should have to 'defend' their body shape to you??

@maddening the ops spelling mistake is define. Not defend.