[ShellyM]

Tangy,
I COMPLETELY can relate to you. Girl, I don't think there is an American woman alive that does NOT have body image issues to some degree. Trust me on this. You are sitting there looking at your body compared to the other women...and I guarantee you they are looking at their body compared to yours. I AM a walking stretch mark. 3 children and lots of weight loss has pretty much left me covered in them. Do I look like I did at 20? Nope. I look like a healthy 35 year old woman, and thats who I am. I know its easy for me to tell you to accept your body for the beautiful creation that she is, but until YOU see yourself as beautiful everything we say does not matter. My friend wears a size 4 jeans. What society would call HWP. She sat there in tears telling me how horrific she looks because she is too bony, why can't she be more curvy like me. And I'm sitting there with my mouth hanging open thinking "here I am looking at her every day wishing I had HER body, and she is sitting there everyday wishing she had MY body"..... the object is to accept yourself for the beautiful woman you are. Confidence is the biggest turn on there is. When you fall in love with yourself this will come out from within you, and I guarantee you there will be a positive response. Instead of looking at what you consider to be bad look at the good.
Best of luck to you girl, Shelly