How comfortable are YOU in a swimsuit?

Ugh, I have never in my life worn a bikini, actually I haven't even owned a bathsuit at all for the last.. 4 years. I attempted to buy one last summer, I tried one suit on, and went home feeling awful. They just make me fell kinda bummed out, so I prefer to just pretend they don't exist.

 

((You get stretch marks when you gain weight quickly in a short amount of time. Thats why alot of women get them on their stomachs during pregnancy.))

I'm really surprised by how many people responded to this thread!! Thanks all for sharing your insecurities ...misery really does love company, lol. Reading through everything though has made me realize that I guess there are more women uncomfortable than comfortable, so we should all not care.

Also, since my original post, I've been to a waterpark where I had to where the dreaded bikini. It wasn't so bad. I was actually having too much fun to care. Hopefully I can say the same thing in Hawaii in a couple of months.

 

I only started wearing bikinis last year, I was too scared to show off my body

 

I have yet to meet a woman that looks as bad as she thinks she does.


Maybe it's an American thing,with all the negative body image advertising,or whatever,but there is so much insecurity about appearances.

No matter what your body is, it will look better with a smile and a good attitude.

 

For the more fuller body, they have some great one peices with built in bras at Sears. I know from being large breasted that it get's uncomfortatble with the weight of large breasts pulling your shoulders forward, causing back problems and even rashes under the breasts. I never wore a bra till I hit 50 and then gravity came a callin'.
As for a bathing suit, I just try to ignore my body and have fun. I'm a grandma and I don't expect to have the body of a 20 yr old. But I don't look awful either.

 

I guess I've never really thought much of it. I go to the beach all the time with my bikini on...never really thought I looked that bad...I avoid mirrors anyway *giggles*

Of course, if I could get away with it, I'd walk around naked all the time.

Bodies are beautiful in all shapes and sizes...we don't have anything to be ashamed of! If someone is going to look at me and put me down based on how I look...they aren't worth my time. If you don't like the way I look...then don't look! I'm fairly happy with my body and that's all that matters!

So I guess if you are self conscious, then maybe you should do something about it to make yourself feel better? Just a thought...

 

*claps* well said!

 

I'd rather be naked, swimsuits suck, they always just look cheesy to me, I've never seen a cool looking swimsuit in my life, besides on babies. So I usually just feel like a dork in them but I'm fine with my body.

 

right now I wouldn';t even go out in public in a short skirt so no swim suit shopping untill i get the cast weight off. usually i try to be the thinnest i can possibly be during the summer and gain it back in the winter-not healthy but better than being uncomftrable on the beach.

 

I really don't have a problem with wearing a swimsuit.

 

I know where my weaknesses are so I get a bathing suit to suit them. I know that I can't wear a bikini because that's just not my body type and I'm fine with it. This year I got a one piece (normally I get a tankini but they can be so damn expensive) that's red, which brings out my skin and hair color, and gathered down the front so to downplay my tummy. Then I have a short little red skirt to wear over it because I'm self concious about my thighs.

Plus bikinis remind me too much of underwear on myself which I like to reserve for special people, not the entire beach (of course I'm the only person who thinks of bikinis like that...). That's my good, non body hating excuse!

 

i wear a two piece.
im a size 14.
i jiggle, and im proud of it. i look cute as hell. i love chubby girls in bikinis.

 

very, but I am a guy, if you are asking if I would feel comfortible in a speedo, the answer would be "NO"

 

The only issue I have is those stupid little sting bikini tops, because a couple of years ago I was wearing one and it practically came off when I went down a water slide. (surely it wasn't necessary for every guy in the place to stare)


Otherwise, nah I'm fine. Not going to change myself (on principle, and a general lack of motivation) so there you go. Probably could stand in front of the mirror and pick flaws, I say probably having never tried it.

How fucking insane are we try and conform to a body type dreamed up by an advertising firm, seen only in 0.000001 % of women, and they're miserable anyway because they can't even eat a crumb of cake or their career goes kaput? Besides their pictures are airbrushed.

DancerAnnie said it best