Need brutally honest opinions - my legs...

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I am after a break of 20 years, taking up tennis again and loving it. My DH bought me a lovely tennis skirt which I adore however I then realised I would need to show my legs to wear it (duh).

I was teased at school for my overly muscular legs as I did ballet for 15 years and genetically they are just very chunky.

Can I honestly get away with this skirt? If you saw me on the court what would you think? I don't want to be the one everyone is pointing to and commenting on the chunkiness.

Gulp, pic on profile...

Oops 'yours' !

Your legs are fantastic! I'd love to have legs as slim and UNchunky as yours!

Play tennis, wear skirts and enjoy showing your legs off!

Good god ! Those are great legs !

I was really expecting to click on the photo and type, "OP, your legs aren't bad.."

The reality is that I clicked and... OP! Your legs look fabulous! You enjoy yourself.

OP I want your legs. So lean and tanned!

great legs, seriously. those bullies have prevented you from showing your pins for two decades... that's awful.

Are u one of those Skinny people who constantly moans about being fat???? Wise up! Ur legs are fine.

Legs very good. You should have no qualms about wearing a short skirt whatsoever.

Actually I would say that whatever shape legs, everyone should feel free to do what is most comfortable physically - within the realms of public decency. But as it happens your legs are very good.

I was a teenage athlete, and also had comments made (by other girls, never boys) about my muscley legs / muscley thighs - and looking back on it, I had great legs!

Thank you all I really appreciate it, this thread has made me both happy and sad, that I have had a huge complex for nearly 20 years over something you all think are lovely.

Your legs are not chunky

in the slightest.

Not even a little bit. Seriously. You need to work on your self esteem - you're skinny!!!

BTW. I was called 'tree trunk legs' when I was at school. I have just been sent some old photos from that time, and I literally gasped when I saw how slim my legs used to be. I actually wanted to cry that I'd spent my entire teenage years covering up such a slim body because i genuinely believed I was fat/chunky.

I'm now 2 stone heavier than I was then (albeit 25 yrs older too!) and wish I could have those legs back.

People work out to get legs like yours!

In fact, Just looked at your legs again.

If I had those legs I would be wearing hot pants. Permanently!

Oh you poor thing re the bullying, it has completely skewed your view!

They look very like my legs and I happily wear skirts and go bare-legged all the time (they're a rubbish pasty colour though, unlike yours!) When I've been going to the gym properly I'm quite proud of them! They're never going to be elfin, but I'm too tall to be that anyway.

Enjoy your "new" legs

You have a fantastic set of pins!
Not just "you can get away with that skirt" legs, but "you should wear that skirt at all times" legs.

Truly, they look toned and shapely.

Ooh your legs are a lot like mine - or at least like mine when I've not just had a baby and done no exercise for months! I was massively paranoid about my hideous calves for years and years, wholly because my mother told me that unfortunately I had inherited her awful calves! (No doubt someone told her the same thing at an impressionable age.) At 33 I am finally a bit more relaxed about them. I don't love them and would love to have teeny tiny calves BUT I can acknowledge that my feelings are almost 100% irrational. As are yours - you look great in that skirt.

You don't have a leg problem, you have a self-image problem! Bad bullies!

Seriously, your legs are great.

I would actually kill for those legs. I have always envied women with shapely legs

Sister you wear that skirt with pride! They are A-mazing!

Seriously....they are great.

Your legs are fab.

You have lovely legs.

Why does it matter what they look like anyway?
I lived my childhood being told my legs were 'wrong'. I think that is wrong.

Not what I was expecting at all. You have gorgeous shaped legs. Honestly.

OP I am so tempted to post a picture of my varicose vein afflicted thunder thighs, it's killing me. You have fabulous ankes, shapely calves, non-knobbly knees and slim thighs. Seriously, people would pay money for those legs.

You look gorgeous - good luck with the tennis!

Thank you all. This thread has been life-changing. I know that sounds glib but I mean it sincerely.

I am going to show up to the class tomorrow actually wearing it. Whereas this morning there was no way I had the confidence.