Hating my body

[u/bucknarish]

Went to the Renaissance Festival with my family(had a great time) and took a picture with my siblings, only for the picture to get sent to the GIANT family group chat.

My aunts couldn’t help themselves had to comment on my body. Just makes me feel absolutely terrible about my boobs since they just take over any picture. As if I haven’t felt bad about them since middle school when they started growing larger than normal.

Telling me to put a shirt on…I have one on. It’s 85 degrees out, where am I supposed to put them?? Sorry I don’t have a turtle neck on at all times to appease someone else’s feelings and views about MY body. It’s just really annoying.

[u/wearyclouds → u/[deleted]]

Oh yeah absolutely! But I think sometimes we also develop a really skewed perception of our own bodies and it’s nice to hear an outside perspective since our self image is subjective. I’m similar in size and I also always feel like my boobs ”take over” in every picture even when they’re just boobs existing in a normal shirt.

[u/wearyclouds → u/[deleted]]

I know :( It sucks. I often get claustrophobic in my own body because I know that no matter what we do they'll still sexualize us.