slightly unseasonal but do you wear a bikini? if not why not?

[hatwoman]

I don't. never have really. didn;t like my belly much before kids. like it less now. I don't think I'm fat or even that my belly is anything other than "normal". it's just a bit white and a bit floppy. no big deal. I don't have hang-ups about it. I'm not wallowing in some crisis of self-confidence. I just prefer not to put it on public display. am I weird? (I was virtually the only person in a one-piece on holiday. dh said I looked "positively Saudi Arabian")

My bikini has high cut bottoms that go up almost to my belly button. So there's not too much on show. We'll see how things are when my stomach settles down after DD2 though.

where? Its too nippy out there?
I've never worn one at the swimming pool especially since I've had 4 kids and stretch marks etc.
In fact, I was considering one of those muslim costumes but given swimmin gpools are full of plasters wee and phlegm I decided not to bother with swimming

on the beach I meant. they just look naff at the local pool imo.

no. why? because i would be breaking various crimes of decency

I do wear one but tbh i am probably someone who shouldn't

I even wore one when i was 7 months pg in Cyprus 2 years ago.

I don't particuarly care what peple think now and that is probably why i do lol

NO, thunder thighs (good figure otherwise, but can't handle the (more obvious) love handles on the legs).

oh, never go near beaches. Hot n sandy and the wheelchairs sink, never to be seen again. And british beaches are yucky.

Yes, have always worn bikinis. Even after first child and c-section, when my stomach was a bit of a nightmare (I didn't feel good in it, but couldn't bear wearing a costume - I hate them. they scream 'I am self conscious'!). Ask me again after my next baby is born, though

Only started wearing bikinis in the last 3 or 4 years... actually since I turned 42.

Wished I'd not given a bugger 20 years ago and just done it. Nobody looks and goes 'yeuk'. Well, not within earshot of me anyway.

I have been left with a wrinkly tum after two kids and I don't care what others think I will still wear a bikini on holiday. I don't think I'm at all hot-looking in it but I dont recognise myself as the most hideous looking woman on the beach either. Despite the wrinkes, I am an 8-10 and I just feel too young to be hiding behind a one piece swimsuit on my hols (I am....gulp....38). Besides, the tum always looks better with a tan and DH thinks its great that I wear one .

My DH likes me in a bikini too actually.

No

I'm just too self conscious

i do not.
coz my belly looks like a former war zone.
and yes, i used to.
hell, i used to run about the beach in nowt but a g-string bikini bottom.
now i do one-piece swimming cossies.
oh well! i have gorgeous kids, i dont mind a bit of battle-scarring as a result

No chance.

Incredibly stretch marked saggy tum with scar from abdominal surgery that has a lovely overhang

Nice picture I'm painting here.

Look okay in a one piece....I think

No one has ever needed to be exposed to my tum - but then I don't go to the beach, or on holidays where you sit by a pool.

For swimming pool purposes I have a tankini with shorts where my major crimes against the human eye are firmly covered.

No chance, never, even as a skinny teenager.
I just like to be a bit more covered up.
[prudish Brit emoticon]

i do as a like a brown stomach, switch to tankini when swimming so boobs dont pop out.

have always worn bikinis and always will

these days however, I keep the top on

I will be that 70 yr old granny wearing a bikini

I like 'em

Only when on the beach abroad (where theres no danger of bumping into anyone I know!)

i have never worn a bikini since puberty. i always thuoght i was too fat. looking back, i wasn't too fat, and, goddamit, i should've worn one! too late now, am losing weight but don't think i'll ever get to 'bikini fit' again.

my mother, on the other hand, wears one, aged 62, and still manages to pull it off

Yes.

Didn't until about 3 years ago, even though I am bigger now than I was 10 years ago.

Realised that a decent bikini actually makes you look slimmer than a one piece, and bugger it, I don't care if I wobble, and the bits that wobble worst (thighs) aren't going to be covered up in a one piece anyway.

i dont give a flying fuck what my choice of bathing suit 'screams' to the world at large. i just happen to be in a swimsuit phase of my life is all

I would...if I ever went anywhere hot enough, or could be bothered with the hours of deforestation that would be required first.

Kanye. Are you named in homage to the joke about the string (fond favourite of ds & dd)?

**

A piece of string goes into a bar.
"Get out," says the barman. "We don't serve string in here!"
The string goes out, sadly.

It goes round the corner, tangles itself up, and pulls a whole lot of frizzy bits out of one of its ends. Then it goes back in the bar.

"Hey!" says the barman. "I thought I told you! - aren't you a PIECE OF STRING?"

String says "No, I'm afraid not."