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Originally posted by yuna:
i dont have any answer for you, but all i gotta say is consider yourself SUPER lucky that you stay that skinny. at least you dont have to worry about overeating on "non raw" foods. at least you get to pick between being skinny, or gaining weight (thats also easy to do)

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Now thats the type of response I used to HATE with a passion. I was PAINFULLY skinny/scrawny for most of my life. As a kid, at first all the jibes came from my family (all skinny as well, but not as bad as I was) and they would say such things as "your hip bones are jutting out" or "your waist is soooo tiny, I can wrap my hand around it". It didnt hurt too much cus I was a kid, but when I became a teenager, it wasnt just family, it was my mates and worse...boys! I was so upset when on curvy girl came up to me and asked "Your sister has got a good figure, nice hips and boobs, when are you going to be like her?" I promised her that in two years (when I would be around the same age as my sister then) that I would have more curves.

Believe it or not but two years later she came back to ask me why I had failed to 'develop'. The guys started commenting on how skinny I was etc. Looking back now, it's no wonder, cus I used to eat mostly fruits and peanuts (plus normal cooked meals, but MOSTLY fruits). So despite having a growth spurt and developing breasts, my own YOUNGER sister had the nerve to comment one day "your boobs must be from the other side of the family" cus hers where at least twice the size of mine.

In all this time I had tried desperately to gain weight. I got so obsessed I used to WATCH overweight people and eat what they eat and do what they did. I quickly found FOUR HUGE friends and copied their lifestyle to a T. They would take me out eating huge portions of fatty foods etc. They never seemed to stop eating or thinking about food or planning what next to eat and I learned to tolerate it and eat just as much. I would force myself to sleep for hours at a time during the day/evening (cus the less active you are, the more likely you are to gain weight). I got so desperate that I even started GUZZLING pure oil from the cooking bottle and I begged my mother to give me the fat she cuts off from meat. Much later I got a body building magazine and started eating like a body builder etc. I would stay much later after everyone had left the dinner table and FORCE myself to keep eating (normally I would only manage half a portion of certian high carbohydrate dinners, but as I had heard that they could make me gain weight, I would continue to struggle to polish the plate). I ate peanuts/boiled sweets/fatty pastries etc by the bucket.

Two years after all this and I was still a rake. I hated my sister for being so effortlessly curvy and I resented people (family, friends, strangers...even enemies!) commenting on the difference etc. So one day I went to a pharmacy and asked the woman there if there were any drugs that could make me gain weight. I hate to admit this, but I bought these VERY expensive tablets and proceeded to take them for months (it took all my pocket money and then some). It was a dangerous thing to do, because I did not tell anyone what I was taking.

Sure enough, within six months I had gained about three stone in weight. For the first time I actually had a curvy bottom and the guys responded with wolf whistles etc. The girls became green with envy etc. Till this day I have maintained the curves and in a way I wish I don't have them anymore. I have never been able to deal with the amount of male attention that they draw (I can't tell you how many times I have been stalked). The most scary thing about it is that if I should gain a stone now, most of it will go to my boobs! You should see me when I'm ovulating. yeesh. I was recently on steroids and I gained about 3 kg. I cannot describe the amount of attention I got from men. Even my boss wanted to cup a feel of my rear! One day it was so bad (bearing in mind that I was fairly sick/weak) I had to come out of a train at an earlier stop and get a cab home (costing me an arm and a leg) because every where I went guys kept hitting on me! I think I must have been bursting out of my clothes, I could not handle it at all and when I came off the steroids and lost the weight, I was estatic.

So I'm curvy, not skinny, just curvy. And it took years to get to this weight. I have maintained it for over ten years now, but maybe if I could I would go back to how I used to be, because I really hate having men drool all over me. I don't think I am beautiful, but what man can resist luscious curves? (think Jennifer Lopez's 'asset').

I'm sorry I have written soooo much here, but I hate those comments about how 'lucky' one is to be so skinny etc. I still get envious and downright nasty looks from women who consider me 'skinny', even though I am not. Comments like that are not helping. You have no idea how HARD it is for some naturally underweight people to gain weight ...and I'm a woman, I'm supposed to have all these hormones to aid that etc. Yet we have here a teenage guy who is probably getting ribbed by his mates and ignored by the girls. My heart goes out to him.

Okay I'll stop now.

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Originally posted by JustinCredible:
The one and ONLY thing to make woman look like a teenage boy is a short haircut. No body conditions (fat skinny or other) are able to make a human being ugly, except the face.

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I beg to differ.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. There are sayings like "Nice body, shame about the face" AS WELL AS sayings like "Nice face, shame about the body" (especially regarding obese women, and no...it's not fair, but it's something I hear men say all the time).

These days a lot of teenage boys are into grunge etc. with long flowing (and usually matted unwashed) hair. You see them in their baggy clothes, with their pants almost down to their knees etc. The funny thing is...sometimes there's a girl in the group and you won't be able to tell!