What do you like/dislike about your body?

In My Humble Opinion
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Warning: I’m going to get into detail, here.

I like my face. I consider myself good-looking (the jury is still out on whether I’m “cute” or “handsome”). I’ve been told I have nice eyes. I like my nose. My upper lip is a bit thin, but it’s no big deal. I have a cleft in my chin. My teeth are more or less perfect, thanks to years of orthodontia, but they’re a bit small for adult teeth. My earlobes are a bit big, and consequently I don’t like the way I look with earrings in (my ears are pierced seven times) - so I don’t wear them.

I don’t like the shape of my head. Were I to shave it, I think it’d look like a box.

I’ve been told I have a nice back, but I think my shoulders could be broader. When I used to do weights five days a week in university, I had nice pecs, but I’ve let them go. My abs too. I also had nice triceps and OK biceps, but I’ve let them go too, albeit less so. I like my forearms, and after 14 years of classical piano, I have pretty lean and strong hangs.

Moving further down…

I’m neutral about my butt. I’ve been told by many a guy that it’s cute. Whatever. I like my penis. I don’t wish it were any bigger or smaller. However, I wish my nuts were bigger.

I love my legs. I’ve always walked fast, so they’re very well-toned.

I don’t mind my feet, except that they’re a bit wide, and this causes problems when breaking in new shoes. My toes are OK, but my ex-boyfriend used to say I had “alien feet.”

There you have it, from head to toe. :slight_smile: And you?

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There was once a time when I was afraid to take my clothes off. Whenever I would start to… how you say… ah yes… take off my shirt, I would be assaulted by screams of "No!!..Don’t Do It!!!.. It’s Too Sexy!!!

But about a year ago, I caught a glimpse of myself nekkid in a mirror after a shower and scared the hell out of myself. Usually I only saw myself from the neck up so I was convinced that I was a prime cut of beef. Then I saw the rest of the cow.

Chest, slowly sinking and pulling what once were amazing shoulders in with it.

Gut… just a gut. No love handles to speak of, but a strip about 6" wide around my navel gives a couple inches of pinch. Not pretty.

Speaking of my navel, I can take a jackhammer to it and it’s still stuffed with lint. I can’t get it out.

Butt. I used to be able to crack a walnut with it on a good day. Now I pull a glute and pinch a sciatic trying to get juice out of a grape.

Frontside of the butt. We won’t talk about my shortcoming.

Legs. To call them chicken legs not only falsely implies that there is meat on them, but grievously insults chickens of the world.

Toes. They are usually sticky, so I assume they are pretty smelly.

Now I’ve noticed that my hairline is receding… at an alarming rate. On one side, I look good. On the other, I have an Eddie Munster thing happening.

I don’t like my body much at all anymore. But the reconstruction has begun, so hopefully I will once again be a honey dipped stud muffin.

Of course by then I will be bald, driving around in a sporty convertible, wearing my leather Member’s Only jacket (yes, I still have one and wear it), cruising for babes. But I will be the best looking guy around who’s having a mid-life.

I gotta have something to hold on to.

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dislike: skin (acne), hips and thighs (wide), feet (flat), ankles (thick), shoulders (nonexistent), belly (flabby), nose (too big), ugly mannish square jawline and cleft chin.

ambivalent about: eyes (good color and shape, but VERY nearsighted), hair (straight and fine, can either look very nice or stringy and greasy).

like: wrists, calves, mouth and teeth, and if i wear the right kind of shirt my neck looks pretty good…

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I like the fact that I’m taller/bigger than everyone else I meet

sometimes its fun be repulsivly enormous

I also hate it. clothes, cars, airplanes, houses, nothing is made in my size. Its all made for you little people.

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I like the fact that my body is alive and is not a corpse! :cool:

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Overall I’m pretty happy with my body. I’m small enough to fit into plane seats easily, and clothes usually fit me nicely. I wish my legs were a bit longer though. :frowning:

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I like that I’m strong. When I need to move something or lift something, I just do it - I don’t have to worry about looking for help.

I like that I’m flexible. I’m a bit of a yard sale skier and I’m sure I would have broken/dislocated every bone/joint in my body if I weren’t so bendable.

I really like my upper back - It’s toned and muscular without being huge.

I like my arms - again toned & muscular without being honkin’.

I have pretty eyes.

I’ve got a great rack. :stuck_out_tongue:

I have really dry skin, which I hate.

My feet are nasty.

I do abs like a mad woman, and despite the fact that my stomach is quite muscular, I still have a poochie belly. *BAH! This I think I am going to have to live with.

My joints all snap, krackle and pop like a frikin’ cacophonic orchestra!

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I could write for hours on my physical shortcomings. Here’s the outline version:

  1. Head
    a) forehead too low
    b) skull too small
    c) jutting “Neanderthal” brow
    d) roundish, asymmetrical face
    e) ears too large
    f) eyebrows too thick and “connected”
    g) eyes too deep set, narrow
    h) disastrous nose (short, wide, stubby, and crooked)
    i) large, square jaw, protruding chin
    j) fat upper lip
    k) jagged, uneven, yellow teeth
    l) double chin
    m) short, flabby neck
    n) skull too flat in the back
    o) no cheekbones

  2. Trunk
    a) shoulders too broad and hunched
    b) lousy posture
    c) rib cage too wide
    d) arms too long and skinny
    e) hairy wrists
    f) hands too small and delicate
    g) large, hairy nipples
    h) flabby belly and love handles
    i) back scarred by acne

  3. Hip Region
    a) butt too small, flat, and flabby
    b) long, shaggy pubic hair
    c) short, scrawny, crooked penis

  4. Legs
    a) thighs swell at base like drumsticks
    b) underdeveloped calves and hamstrings
    c) scrawny ankles, scarred from poison ivy
    d) wide, flat, feet
    e) hairy toes.

I’m afraid I don’t have many good features to list. My hair is thick and wiry, but it can look nice on occasion. My tongue is nicely-formed. My toes are okay, aside from the hair.

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My medium sized boobs.

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Like: brain
Dislike: all non-brain bits

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I hate my skin because I can’t wear a tanktop without showing pimples, as well as other reasons (heals hella slow, shows every mark, burns in the sun, pale enough to see thru etc)
I love the fact that I can get buff easily.
I hate my B-cup booblets (sometimes.)
I love my brain. It’s a body part!
I hate the fact that my eyes are so weak.
I love my hair.
I hate my hair.
I love my butt. But it’s not big enough.
I hate my little bitty pooch on my belly that prevents me from having a six-pack of abs.
I love my legs.
I hate my bronchii.
I love my voice when I sing. (I love my larynx?)

I love just about everything else. Nice feet. Nice hands. Slim ankles and elbows. My rib cage is rather barrel-y, but I can live with it - it just makes me look bigger than I am (and enhances the booblets small size… sigh)

I rather dislike the birthmark on my arm. But we live in peace at the moment.

For the record, my SO likes my butt, my booblets, my legs, my eyes, my lips and quite generally everything about me (except my temper). So he says. In other words, I am marrying a blind man :wink:

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oh! and I like my nipples!

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Good: uh, well, I have a treasure trail, so I guess that’s something… and girls tend to like my hair, which I admit is lots of fun:)

I can’t quite pinpoint it, but there’s just this overall dissatisfaction I have with the rest of my body.

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Skin…dry and scaly no matter WHAT I apply to it.

My kids hassle me about my big nose, but guess what THEY’RE going to inherit?

My hair. I want to have hair like those shampoo/conditioner models on the telly. I want it to be long and lustrous and make peoples heads turn (to find out where the glare is coming from). Instead, as soon as my hair gets to shoulder length it stops growing, develops a fly-away habit and is in a perpetual state of knottiness.

I love the size of my hands…I can stretch out to 11 keys on the piano and a threat to slap a kid who hassles me about my nose is taken VERY seriously around here. :smiley:

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I have a pot-belly and no butt.

I have ugly stretch marks on my lower back.

I have giant calves that would make Flo Jo blush (if she were alive, may she rest in peace).

My skin is golden yellow instead of golden brown. I cannot keep a tan to save my life.

I have small breasts. I don’t wear a bra.

My sister says I have a child-like body.

But for the first time in my life, I like my big-ass hair. I have the Sideshow Bob thing going on and I don’t care what anyone says. I think it’s COOL!

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Dislikes -
Browny-blondy-red hair. I’ve always hated it so much that it has been dyed every colour you can think of except green. It has been shaved, dreadlocked, a mohican…however the boif likes it red, so red it stays. Blah.
So white I am almost blue. I don’t tan, I don’t freckle. I lived for two years in California and went home to Britain the exact same colour I had always been. I would love a tan, and don’t give a fig about wrinkles.
Scrawny. My entire famiy is overweight, I can’t stand skinny men myself and have always found flesh sexy, so it bugs me huge amounts that I am thin. My legs in particular are just two little white sticks, and I look about 12 if I ever wear shorts. Which leads me onto -
Short. Not extremely short, 5’7", but it still convinces everyone I meet that I am around 19. Add ten years to that, thankyouverymuch. I like being older, being young sucked. It’s something of an ambition of mine to one day look my age.
Knuckles. Slender hands, but for some reason I have really thick knuckles. It just looks weird, and I don’t like it.
Nipples. Due to my colouring, I have pink nipples. I would like brown nipples, like most normal adults.

Likes -
Upper body. Broad shoulders, abs, good arms, all from a life-long love of swimming and a sporty adolescence.
Butt. It sticks out. I like it. I have booty, apparently.
Penis. One good thing about being scrawny and little, it makes a frankly averaged-sized peepee look almost impressive, by way of scale.
Chest hair. Just enough to make me feel butch when it’s stroked, to feel sooooo good when I scritch it, and to give me a hot little treasure trail. Plus not so much that it turns me into a big hairy manbeast.

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I’m too short. 5 feet tall. I’d be happy with 3-4 more inches.

I guess I’m happy with my boobs.

Skin. I wish I had nicer skin.

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Like

My boobs are nice.
My lips are shaped well.
My hair grows fast and is healthy.
Athletic but, shapely legs.
Don’t like

Weird nose
Small chin
Freakishly small hands
Nipples that always make their presence known.
Small shoulders

Not sure about

Almond shaped eyes that don’t match the rest of my face.

Hour-glass figure. Nice, but they don’t make clothes for hour-glassed figures anymore.

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I like:
-Tiny frame
-Nice stomach (I have defined stomach muscles even though I don’t work out)
-Large eyes
-Hair color. It’s really dark brown. I sometimes get mistaken for a goth chick, which can be pretty funny.
-Everyone says I have a nice ass, so I’m inclined to believe them.

I hate:
-My legs. They are extremely short and stubby, and my knees are dimply, despite the fact that I am really thin. Plus, my boyfriend always wants me to wear dresses, and I feel so insecure when I do.
-My hair. It’s full of broken or split ends, so I need about tablespoon full of hair grease to keep it from turning into an afro-like thing, and it’s STILL frizzy!
-My cheeks. They’re too chubby.
-The fact that I look like a 16 year old. I’m 20.
-Actually, most of my face in general. I think I’m very plain.

Not sure:
-My breasts. They’re tiny (A cup), but they look okay for my frame, and at least I don’t have back pain.

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Dislike: my vision. I have such bad eyesight that I can’t have corrective surgery, and I can’t stand contacts
-The fact that I’ve put on ten pounds in the last two years.
-My stupid left knee. I dislocated it standing still in the April of 2001, three days before graduating from college. I was living in an apartment on the third floor of a rickety old house. There’s no fun like having to pack with a busted knee! And the blasted thing hasn’t fully healed yet- actually, it aches right now.
-I wanted green eyes. I’m half-Japanese. Guess what colour my eyes are.
-Silver hair would be pretty cool, too.

Like: My hair, mostly. It’s waist length and a very, very, very dark brown that’s red in sunlight. I actually dyed it with the Noirs Fatale deepest purple stuff last year, and it was almost its normal colour.
-I have very flexible hands, which is great, because I bellydance. They’re also small, which means I can buy vintage gloves, which are too small for most modern women.
-I’m short. 5"4. I do like it- it enables me to look small and helpless, and that is an unfair but fun technique to get my fiance to do what I want.
I’m a pretty average size in women’s clothing- 6 or 8. It makes shopping easy.

Not sure: Since I am half-Japanese, almost no one can tell what race I am. I don’t look indentifiable. I’m medium beige, and I have slanted eyes, but my hair is wavy and my nose isn’t Asian. Lots of people think I’m Native, or Inuit, except that my facial structure isn’t right. Shrug.