OMG black bikini horror

[Coddylicious]

aunt has just sent me some photos from last year on teh beach. I was 4months post natal.

Bloody hell black bikinis do nothing for overweight white women do they?

legs look ok but droopy knockers and under bra strap ripples

Bloody hell Coddy, if you were wearing a bikini four months post-natal you must be bleedin' Liz Hurley. No bikini for me, nearly three years post natal. Stop whinging woman

Turquoise is great with tan. Patterns hide small amounts of flab.
I am irretrievably porky/flabby.

I'm with serenequeen, I've never worn a bikini, pre-children I thought I was too fat for one. I now look at photos of myself pre-children and I was skinny, flat tummy too. I have since worn a tankini when I lost weight after having DS1 and that was quite nice.

I have been to bournemouth today to the beach and I can repot back on this summers fashions.

1. anyone in a swimsuit loks like they are trying to hide a nasty scar of some descrption.
2. Bikins are brief and the best ones have sort of applique or sequins ont hem or hippy stuff likw this turwiose ont ont he left hand side
3. all the young women wore skirts to the beach and only the Mums had shorts on
4. shorts seemt o be towelling and short
5. Bags a re 70s style Pucci print

ffs cod, no way can i do a bikini this year (unless lose a stone in the next month!)...don't depress me woman, surely there must be a swimsuit option that is ok?????

I am not sure sophable - you really dont at all over weight - lets meet upand go shopping!

I'm with SQ and Demented. Spent my 20s and indeed most of my 30s totally convinced Japanese fishermen would gather round my whale-like form if I wore a bikini. NO WAY am I wearing one now, FFS, am nearly 41 quite apart from anything else. Prepared to try tankini.

Bikini? BIKINI???? At 4 months post natal? IE ... for me - now??? I'd rather stick pins in my eyes ...
So glad it is winter in NZ ... lots of warm long sleeved tops that cover my huge ar$e ...
MI ... PMSL at japanese fishermen ...

I wore some very small bikinis in the past...sigh. Weeny triangle things, little white Nicole Farhi thing...I only recently threw out two size 10 bikinis. Gloom.

Yes Coddy I do have a terrible scar, it's called my stomach, it resembles a pile of laddered tights!

I feel quite trendy though as I only own one pair of shorts and don't wear them if I can get away with it. I wear either a skirt, sarong or capri length trousers.

poor you demented

but i ma sure you all agree that we could have worn them more than we did in the past - altho swimsuits were very in in the 80s nad 90s.

aloha No way . you really are not too fat for a bikini

I'm not worried about fisherman, more worried about greenpeace trying to save me!!

None of these bikinis would even cover half of one boob! I can't wear shorts without looking like a bursting over stuffed sausage ,and I'm going camping this weekend! Oh well, with the weather we get in this coutry on a bank holiday, it's bound to be peeing down anyway.....

BR

how big are you?

Which bit!!

Do you really want to know? It's not pretty...

BR

what ssize 14? a6?

I cant ell you there are all sorts of sizes at hte beacha nd Ithink its better just to get on wiht it than to look MORe self concious by trying to cover up

5' 2"

Top size depends on style as I have a small back but huge boobs (32HH).

Waist. Erk dunno. Was 25" before DS.... hold on I have a tape measure in my drawer somewhere.... oh bloody hell. 33". I kept saying it was lots but didn't really think it. How can I have put 8" when I weigh the same as I did before I was pregnant!!!!

God how depressing...... oh I might as well eat chocolate now... I really wish I hadn't bothered.

BR

I refuse to measure my hips... about a 16.

Yours really depressed now...

BR

I must say, on holiday in Sardinia a few years back was astounded at the big Italian mamas who cheerfully wore v expensive La Perla bikinis without a care in the world and looked like size 16 Nancy Dell'Olios. Fake tan and big jewellery anyone?

Can you buy fake tan by the gallon?

Oh I think its good aloha - women always puit such pressure ont hemselves to be slim - I admire people who dont give a.... and just dress as they want to ont he beach ( to an extent natch!)

Alot of woman in Switzerland wear bikinis - fat, slim and in between - some older women especially go topless at the free city swimming pool

also alot of pregnant women - which encourage me to run around flashing the bump