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So what you are saying is that girls who don't get many dates should start carrying ladders around with them? wink

Very nice poem! Thank you!

Yeah it is sad. gonk

Same here, actually. It's funny, I was always chubby but my grandma kept saying it was just "baby fat" and that I grow out of it. I always thought she was just being a grandma. But boom, 17th birthday and I grew about a foot and didn't gain any weight.

What hurt the most, though, wasn't the teasing. It was when they would pretend to be nice. I always wanted to believe that were actually starting to like me or something and I fell for it every single time. I can't possible count how many times I had to walk home from some party or another crying.

Lucky girl. More than half of the teasing I went through was at home. As soon as my mom took custody from my dad, she had me on and off diets. She came up with more names for me than even the Junior High kids did!

You're dad sounds positively awesome, though smile

xd @ Undying Sorrow. Cute!


I personally had no self-esteem growing up, and even when I had my first boyfriend (who is now my ex). I think in the almost 2 and a half years we dated, he never once told me I was beautiful. It was always "you look nice", and when I put myself down, it was "You look fine". That's it. neutral So I got no support from him, and my mom thought I was fat (though she never actually said it, just implied it), and then the media... so yeah. I've never actually had a healthy body image. I've always thought I was fat.

What's made all the difference in the world is having a boyfriend who truly loves me, who thinks I'm sexy, and isn't afraid to tell me so. He puts up with me when I'm passive and beating up on myself, and he has kind things to say when I doubt myself. Nearly every time I see him, he tells me how much he loves me, and how he doesn't want me to change how I look (I want to tone a bit more and lose a few pounds, even though I'm on the lower end of the BMI for my age and weight), and so on. Having his support and his love means everything to me, and to this day I'm trying to improve my self-esteem and my confidence in order to be a better person for myself, and a better girlfriend for him. heart

*Blinks* But I really am ugly. So that doesn't work.

xd

That was a cute poem 3nodding

I never cared about the way I looked until middle school. This boy always picked on me and called me ugly. I actually believed him even though he's an idiot. I gained a few needed pounds around the face and that boosted my self esteem some. I'm actually given compliments and the things that guy said have been pushed to the depths of my memory.