Do any of your boyfriends/ husbands like you a normal weight vs skinny?

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Anonymous wrote:Women that have the same or similar shape as Christina Hendricks are perfect in my book. Different strokes for different folks. To each their own.

She's not fat but her chest pillows are the result of a boo b job

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know. I’m naturally quite thin and always have been, and DH has always seemed attracted to me, has never mentioned weight at all. I guess I am what some of you are calling “skinny” at 5’6 and 118-120, but I’ve gotten tons of male attention my whole life. I do not look bony or “like a teenage boy” or whatever else has been said. I am very small boned and have delicate feminine features, shapely legs, a round bubble butt, small but perky breasts, hourglass waist-to-hips proportions. Thin does not mean shapeless, beautiful bodies come in all shapes and sizes. Stop being so critical.

+1. I’m actually an above poster who said I get more attention at a bit of a higher weight (BMI of 22 vs my typical BMI of 20) but how we look at different weights is so dependent on body type, height, proportions etc. Many gorgeous skinny women look best very thin and it sounds like you are a stunner at your weight. Each woman is going to have a unique experience depending on her own features and assets.

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+1 and I think confidence in ones own body goes a long way in making that body attractive. You could be in a healthy range and look unattractive if you don’t carry yourself with poise and grace. You can be at the heavier or lighter end of normal and be incredibly sexy if you carry yourself that way. I find a lot of overweight or obese people, however, look unattractive inside and out because of low self-esteem. They dress in tent-like clothing and have given up.

But OP said her boyfriend preferred her at a higher weight, despite her feeling LESS comfortable at that size than being thin, which would suggests she's more confident when she's thinner. And yet her boyfriend likes her at a higher weight regardless. To me, that suggests it's not about confidence, but rather a defined physical preference.

I wouldn’t want to be with a man that would prefer me to look in a way that is out of my comfort zone.

Shrug. Don't marry OP's boyfriend then. But I think it's fine for men to have preferences, particularly if their preferences correspond to physical health

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Anonymous wrote:Women that have the same or similar shape as Christina Hendricks are perfect in my book. Different strokes for different folks. To each their own.

She's not fat but her chest pillows are the result of a boo b job

I’m okay with big implants.

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NP. I haven't read all the replies yet, but my DH likes me a little on the curvy side. He's very turned off by 6 pack abs on a woman. But he does like it when I work out with weights more often (e.g., glute and hamstring exercises). I'm probably a BMI of 23-24.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I haven't read all the replies yet, but my DH likes me a little on the curvy side. He's very turned off by 6 pack abs on a woman. But he does like it when I work out with weights more often (e.g., glute and hamstring exercises). I'm probably a BMI of 23-24.

Yep. DH once told me touching a woman shouldn’t fee like touching a man. DH is not attracted to really sculpted muscles on women.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I haven't read all the replies yet, but my DH likes me a little on the curvy side. He's very turned off by 6 pack abs on a woman. But he does like it when I work out with weights more often (e.g., glute and hamstring exercises). I'm probably a BMI of 23-24.

Yep. DH once told me touching a woman shouldn’t fee like touching a man. DH is not attracted to really sculpted muscles on women.

Same, mine doesn’t like it when my arms and shoulders get too sculpted. It’s a good thing he doesn’t like 6-pack abs either bc those are hard to get even though my stomach is flat.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I haven't read all the replies yet, but my DH likes me a little on the curvy side. He's very turned off by 6 pack abs on a woman. But he does like it when I work out with weights more often (e.g., glute and hamstring exercises). I'm probably a BMI of 23-24.

Yep. DH once told me touching a woman shouldn’t fee like touching a man. DH is not attracted to really sculpted muscles on women.

That's such a weird thing to tell your wife. Like telling your husband you don't like 10-inch d****s. As if it had at any point been an option.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I haven't read all the replies yet, but my DH likes me a little on the curvy side. He's very turned off by 6 pack abs on a woman. But he does like it when I work out with weights more often (e.g., glute and hamstring exercises). I'm probably a BMI of 23-24.

Yep. DH once told me touching a woman shouldn’t fee like touching a man. DH is not attracted to really sculpted muscles on women.

That's such a weird thing to tell your wife. Like telling your husband you don't like 10-inch d****s. As if it had at any point been an option.

They don’t want to feel like they’re with a man.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I haven't read all the replies yet, but my DH likes me a little on the curvy side. He's very turned off by 6 pack abs on a woman. But he does like it when I work out with weights more often (e.g., glute and hamstring exercises). I'm probably a BMI of 23-24.

Yep. DH once told me touching a woman shouldn’t fee like touching a man. DH is not attracted to really sculpted muscles on women.

That's such a weird thing to tell your wife. Like telling your husband you don't like 10-inch d****s. As if it had at any point been an option.

They don’t want to feel like they’re with a man.

They never had a chance with women with that extremely rare body type and by putting it down they make themselves and their wives feel better.

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Amen. One person finally referenced the BMI - body mass index. This is a great tool for 98% of the population to really know what is “normal” (healthy) vs overweight and obese. Most “curvy” women are overweight (and face all the negative health issues - diabetes, high blood pressure, being sanctimonious, etc, - that come with it). It’s not for young kids, professional athletes, or pregnant women — but otherwise very useful! Whats yours? - https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmicalc.htm

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Anonymous wrote:Amen. One person finally referenced the BMI - body mass index. This is a great tool for 98% of the population to really know what is “normal” (healthy) vs overweight and obese. Most “curvy” women are overweight (and face all the negative health issues - diabetes, high blood pressure, being sanctimonious, etc, - that come with it). It’s not for young kids, professional athletes, or pregnant women — but otherwise very useful! Whats yours? - https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmicalc.htm

Have you not read the thread from page 1? Plenty of discussion about BMI.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I haven't read all the replies yet, but my DH likes me a little on the curvy side. He's very turned off by 6 pack abs on a woman. But he does like it when I work out with weights more often (e.g., glute and hamstring exercises). I'm probably a BMI of 23-24.

Yep. DH once told me touching a woman shouldn’t fee like touching a man. DH is not attracted to really sculpted muscles on women.

That's such a weird thing to tell your wife. Like telling your husband you don't like 10-inch d****s. As if it had at any point been an option.

They don’t want to feel like they’re with a man.

They never had a chance with women with that extremely rare body type and by putting it down they make themselves and their wives feel better.

If you check a lot of sites that compile beautiful women, it's almost all curvy women. I was just looking through a subreddit about this yesterday, and it was kind of depressing, as a skinny woman, because nearly every single woman had that "thicc" look: large breasts or butt, large thighs, soft body. And no this was a general "hot girl" subreddit, not for BBW or anything. I think that a lot of men like that look

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I look at fashion magazines and my husband is puzzled by the models. He thinks they look bony and unattractive. Swimsuit models or curve..another story

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I have an athletic build, curvy with a big ass. I've ranged from a size 4 at my smallest to an 8 at my largest. I have never been called skinny, but I've also never been called fat. "Toned", when I'm in good shape, "thick" when I've let myself go a little and have some softness on top of the muscle.
The men I've been with have all said my body is perfect. But then again, why would I ever sleep with a man who thought anything else?

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As a very fine-boned, petite Asian woman, for me "normal" means a BMI that's actually underweight. At that BMI, I look slender but not skin and bones.

DH met me when I was that shape, and likes me that way. And more importantly, that's how I like myself!