Defining Curvy

[SummaLuvin]

I am size 8, 32 inch bust, 24 inch waist, 34 inch hips. I consider my body to be curvy, defined waist, rounded hips, bum, and boobs... However, 'curvy' has been taken over by bigger women to the point where I have been told in no uncertain terms that I am not curvy as I am too small, so I shouldn't describe myself that way. I see curvy as a silhouette hourglass shape at any size, but it seems I am in the minority...

To me, curvy is as you describe: a body that dips in at the waist, with defined hips. Not always bust as well, but yes that too. Curvy does not mean overweight. But it sounds nicer and gets used that way.

Skinny shaming is definitely a thing, for those who say it's not. As a teenager work colleagues sometimes said gross things to me and I wasn't the slightest concerned about bodies, certainly didn't comment about theirs. As an adult, when getting over a stay in hospital, I looked very scrawny and several women at work commented negatively (they didn't know I had just come out of hospital). I wonder whether they would have confidently told a woman with some excess pounds that she "looks really fat, it doesn't look good"? People shouldn't be negatively commenting on each other's bodies, whether small or large.

Stealth boast if ever I saw one.

People have the right to object to how you describe their size and shape. They do not have the right to dictate how you describe your own size and shape, however envious it makes them or how fat it makes them feel.

I see skinny shaming on this forum all the time.

Poster love throwing around how slim women have the bodies of a child, and someone even implied a man must therefore be a nonce to go for slim women rather than a “real woman” with “curves”

To me curvy is large bust, defined waist and large hips. I would describe someone as a size 8 as slim, not curvy, in the same way I wouldn’t describe myself as leggy simply because I have legs.

I’m not on board with the whole “I’m being skinny shamed” thing when historically and often still now being skinny is the idealised body type. It seems like the equivalent of “what about the menzzzz”. I’m sure you’ll be fine 👍🏼

I’m not on board with the whole “I’m being skinny shamed” thing when historically and often still now being skinny is the idealised body type. It seems like the equivalent of “what about the menzzzz”. I’m sure you’ll be fine 👍🏼

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For average slim maybe but for actually skinny. Model skinny? You're deluded if you say skinny people aren't shamed.

"Bony, not a real woman, flat, no man will want you, look like a child, not developed, pancake"

Just because YOU haven't experienced it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It can be just as harmful.

For average slim maybe but for actually skinny. Model skinny? You're deluded if you say skinny people aren't shamed.

Not saying they’re never shamed, but skinny women have walked the runways as the height of fashion for decades. Skinny shaming and fat shaming are nowhere near in the same league.