Has anybody got a little plump belly that they actually like?

[NothingWrong]

Because I've come to like mine lol.

My love handles - different story. Asked my gym instructor for exercises to target the area and he was like 'Well basically that's fat'. He did give me exercises though.

But I've come to accept my little belly!

Mine wasn’t little it was more on a lump. I got fat reducing injections for it. Going in for my love handles beginning of March.

I love my little belly. I think its cute and feminine.

I think a little belly on a woman can look really cute so yanbu there OP! I'm not a fan of mine but I suffer mild dysmorphia which affects the way I can see myself. I suspect I inherited it from my father who was very much the same way. That said, I'm learning to try to be kinder to myself through exercise, diet and positive thinking.

Suspect what the trainer meant by 'that's just fat' is that you can't spot train an area. You can't train to lose fat from the love handles, you just train to lose fat in general and eventually it'll come off the love handles. Some people (me) will always have love handles even at my skinniest/fittest (which was pretty skinny/fit). Good for you for liking your lovely shapes! I'm jealous and want to achieve that for myself :)

well...we would actually die if we had 0 body fat, I don't really judge my body on what it looks like but what it can do. I made a beautiful child, and I can run, and swim, and dance, and hug.
Our bodies do so much for us, it's awfully cruel to dislike them.

If I didn't have this belly, I'd be at least a clothes size smaller. I hate. But even when I was really slim, I always had a bit of a tum.

Mine is partly down to split stomach muscles after a large baby 6 years ago but also the peri-menopause. I'm learning to embrace it.

I’ve always hated my stomach (it’s never been flat, even when I was slim in my late teens/early twenties) but like you I’ve been working on accepting and loving it. I never used to let anyone touch it but now my partner rubs it sometimes, he says he likes it.

I used to have a little round tummy and I never minded it...I had a flat tummy at one point and I did like that but I still felt nice with a tummy. Now I have the most enormous weird overhang of just skin from where I was stitched up badly after my section and it's awful...just awful. Can't afford surgery so that's it now. I miss my normal looking tummy so much. I think a bit of fat there looks lovely and feminine.

Is that you, Fabienne?

Well, I had a baby 5 weeks ago so my belly is looking a little deflated.
I do want to do something about it, but mostly because right now if you asked me to tense my stomach muscles I don't think I could! So I want to tighten my stomach so I feel a bit better about that.

But I'm not really bothered about how it looks. I had a little belly chub before I got pregnant and it's never really upset me. I'm not fat, so a little tummy pudge isn't going to get me down.

I've got a right little pot belly and I haven't got kids yet...I enjoy my food and wine too much to ever have washboard abs! Would love a nice flat stomach but meh.

I call mine, my pouch 😃 I dont mind mine to be honest.

I'm going through menopause. My body's not going to look like it did at 30 and I've learned to accept it.

I had years of anorexia and bulimia, so clearly a terrible relationship with my body. I have abused the poor thing and taken it to extremes in terms of exercise and expecting it to survive and function on minimal fuel. I’ve had a lot of therapy and I’m a lot better now.

And do you know, despite the abuse, it’s still going. It’s still doing what it’s supposed to do, still loyally plodding on, it’s conceived two children (birthed one, another due soon), fed my baby son, it’s let me climb mountains and go to amazing places and sleep and just sit on the sofa watching boxsets.

I suspect many people here would be disgusted to have a body like mine, would “rather die” than look like me. But I love it now, despite the scars from the abuse - I have put my body through so much but it still keeps delivering for me. How fucking lucky am I?

Women are supposed to have fat. It's what has kept the human race going for goodness sake.
It's a bit of a myth the completely flat tummy and abs showing and I say that as a fitness instructor. Fitness models on Instagram with body fat so low they don't menstruate etc
If you've had babies some curvature is normal. I wish women could learn to accept this. Of course I advocate fitness and a healthy diet/weight. Strength training can hugely improve core strength and posture which helps lower back weakness and gives a much better shape. But if you want to be proud of being a woman and the beautiful babies you bore stop beating yourself up over impossible goals. We are meant to have belly fat.

I like the soft, slight rounded shape of mine. Which is a good job, since it ain't going anywhere. I've been injecting or infusing it with insulin for 24 years so there is a certain amount of softness from that.

I like it and think my shape looks good, apart from the few days before my period due to bloat and my whole abdomen feels miserable and out of sorts. Then I don't feel sensual at all just irritated and can't wait for business as usual to be resumed in that area.

Can anyone think of any women in the public eye with notably un-washboard stomachs?

If you've had babies some curvature is normal

Even before/ without having babies. It depends on your anatomy and shape. I think women with shorter torsos have more roundedness in general, as there's less space to pack in the vital organs!

Ive always had a little pot belly even pre kids. After having 3 kids it’s got bigger with a few stretch marks. I hated it first & felt quite self conscious. But recently I’ve now got used to it & I call it my second/pudding/cake tummy 🙂.

This reminds me of pulp fiction where Bruce Willis' girlfriend was talking about how sexy pot bellies are. But not on men!

I think I've got a small one, haven't checked in a while.

Yes, I do, and yes, I quite like it. As long as I’m at a good weight and my belly isn’t huge, I’m happy enough. I also love how soft and lovely it feels (though I would happily be rid of some of the post-children wobbliness, if I were being picky and perfectionist about it). I used to be very slim and have the ‘ideal’ concave stomach, but meh, that’s not my ideal anymore.

I don’t mind mine; I think being gently rounded looks fine, and I’m not overweight.

My lower tummy is the very last place I lose weight - when I was fitter I had defined abs and hardly any boobs and bum, but still a slightly round lower belly, so I guess it’s just my shape. Now I’m active but not super-fit I actually prefer my body shape as it is - I’m glad to finally have boobs! :)

No. I have a very slightly fat belly which I'm converting into a six pack. Fatty bits don't suit me

I used to be a gym bunny but I just don’t give enough of a fuck anymore - the only exercise I actually want to do is a good long hearty walk! I might get back into it as I approach my fifties since strength and resistance training becomes more important, but for now I’m content to be un-toned. Kinda wish I could be bothered but I just can’t.

Pre babies I had sometimes a fat stomach but a lot of the time it was a little round and I loved it

I hate my c section tum.

I’m pregnant now and love my growing bump again but itlbr back to a saggy baggy one again soo.

After 2 decades of aneorexia and over exercising to the point of herniated discs and stress fractures, not to mention my diaistis recti that will not heal, I am loving every inch of my size 16, overweight, self. Because to do otherwise us worse.