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'Friend' just made me feel really shit about myself

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SadApple · 23/09/2009 12:24

a (fairly) regular name-changing here. Friend knows my MN name and may be an Mner herself for all I know.

So she's a fairly close friend of mine -let's call her Claire - our dcs are friends and we have both been doing Weight watchers. She reached her target recently - and looks fantastic, I mean really fantastic (think size 10 Nigella), new clothes, the lot-and I still have a bit more to go but have lost 2 stone and was (past tense!) feeling quite good about it.

Foe some reason we got onto the subject of body shapes; she had been flicking through some mind-numbing mag like Now and mentioned how fucking (her words) glad she was that she had an hourglass shape and that she'd want to kill herself if she was an apple-shape as even if you are a thin apple your body is still such an unattractive and masculine shape

So there's apple-shaped me going red in the face , not knowing what to say but feeling shitola. I know I've mentioned to her in the past what shape I am (it's obvious fgs), even after weightloss my shape remains irresolutely apple and the saddest thing is I think I agree with her, I would love to have her figure.

Maybe I'm being oversensitive but I didn't think friends were supposed to make you feel like this?

OP posts:
aurynne · 24/09/2009 11:30

I'm an hourglass shape and it's hell to find jeans that fit! Either my bum does not fit in, or the waist is to wide and I need a belt! Not to speak about my thighs rubbing against one another... yeah, it's bliss to be an hourglass!

RunLyraRun · 24/09/2009 11:34

I'm a happy apple

I'm pretty sure it's used in medical language e.g. apple-shaped people have higher risk of heart disease than pear-shaped people - not just some bollocks invented by trashy mags.

Anyway my point was, yes it's slightly annoying not having much of a waist, but I choose to think of my shape as "athletic" rather than "boyish". I'm a golden DELICIOUS , and I'm sure you are too SA - bloody well done on the weight loss!

mumblechum · 24/09/2009 11:46

I'm a slightly squashed banana myself

OscarByTheSea · 24/09/2009 12:00

Heh! I think I must be a watermelon.

SadApple · 24/09/2009 12:01

psml

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aurynne · 24/09/2009 12:03

What about a carrot shape?

SadApple · 24/09/2009 12:05

don't think I'll ever think of carrots in quite the same way again

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clumsymum · 24/09/2009 12:13

OMG

what the f* does it matter what 'shape' you are, as long as you are healthy?

This is such a fatuous thread. You are YOU, not some pale imitation of a 'sleb' from a crappy magazine.

Beauty comes from within. It doesn't matter whether you are apple/hourglass/oval or a bloody trapezium.

Go away and find something important to worry about !!

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