AIBU to HATE my hip dips (photo attached)

[Mamacita191]

This is getting me really down now. I gave birth 20 months ago, and my hips dip in and then back out again at my thighs. It feels quite hard and think it’s my actual bone structure now since giving birth, they weren’t like this beforehand though! No exercise I do gets rid of them or improves them, nor any dietary changes. It looks absolutely awful in jeans, really squishy and unflattering regardless of the fact I am quite toned.

Did anyone else’s hips go like this after giving birth? Do they go back ever? (I am pregnant again - 6 weeks so I understand they’ll be changing again, I just thought by 20 months post partum my hips would have gone back to normalish).

Is this all in my head? I am wondering if it looks worse to me than to others. And I do realise this may seem really pedantic to people, however it is my personality. I’ve always worried over my body image especially as I’ve always worked so hard to have a good shape.

I think you look great!

I don’t see ever you’re referring to tbh

You look normal. It's all the celebs having hip dip surgery that are making you think it's bad.

Hip dips are fine
Get off Instagram and try to do some positive things for your mental health and body image instead

What are hip dips? I thought you meant the dimples women have on their lower back, hip dips no idea??

Hip dips? Whatever next. You look perfectly normal.

Just googled and now understand what you mean.

The ones shown in the photos are def more prominent than yours.

I can’t say yabu because we all have things on our bodies we might not love. I guess this is yours. Apparently, they can be improved with exercise

For those wondering what they are

That is a perfectly normal, slim and toned body! I don’t see the problem

It looks like a normal woman's body, probably one that's a mother and has the muscle tone and fat distribution of someone that spends most of her time doing things for other people and not herself. When I didn't look like this I was single, ran half marathons swam several miles a week and had good sleep unless I was shagging. God I miss those days

I had never heard of hip dips. OP, I am the same shape as you and have never given it a second's thought.

Saddle bags are not the same as hip dips. Hips dips are down to the muscle skeletal structure of the pelvis. Saddle bags are on the upper thighs and are natural accumulations of fat.

You can be stick thin without saddlebags and still have hip dips.

I have no idea what I'm looking at or if I have them! I'm not even going to check because why worry about something you can't change!

I didn't even know this was a thing

I don't see anything that's unusual?

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.refinery29.com/amp/en-gb/2020/08/9971658/hip-dips

It's not a thing, let's all just agree that women are beautiful in all their magnificent and not take this shit on board.

This is called having a normal female body.

What is it meant to look like?

I'm a size 6 and I still have hip dips, it's just a natural part of our bodies. You look great seriously.

@NotMyCat how natural is the latter photo, it looks very Kardashian?

You look fine. Not bad, not supermodel, just normal. Really no point in wasting time obsessing over this. The way you look should be the least interesting thing about you, you'll be much happier with that sort of mindset.

Seeing as it’s a question.

Yes, YABU. You are slim and toned, presumably that’s what happens? I think it’s completely unreasonable to have hang ups about a body like yours. Sorry.

I like them! Wish I had some bloody shape 🤣

Hip dips are perfectly normal on the female body. It's our musculoskeletal build. Stop obsessing over it.

Not loved by everyone, but a good old rant from James Smith about how social media influences what we think bodies should look like.

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CUPW8d4AYvc/?utmmedium=copylink