OMG I bought a string bikini!!

Wabbit05 · March 2013

Your abs are KILLER!!! You look fantastic! Congrats on the mental breakthrough

OroroMunroe · March 2013

I want your abs!! Great job!

Momowink · March 2013

Wow.
Just.... wow.

LifeIsNotADressRehearsal · March 2013

Holy! You are one hot mama! Good for you! That's pure awesomeness!

WinnerVictorious · March 2013

when i saw OP's string bikini pics, at first i was like..

and then i was like...

(yes, i'm speaking like a teenager in this post and yes OP, that's 5. i know.)

MireyGal76 · March 2013

when i saw OP's string bikini pics, at first i was like..

and then i was like...

(yes, i'm speaking like a teenager in this post and yes OP, that's 5. i know.)

this deserves a hug!

MrsBozz1 · March 2013

I TOTALLY understand!! I am 6'1". I was 5'11" and 150 lbs in 6th grade. It took awhile for me to realize that at my height if I weighed 105 like the other girls it would be a serious problem. People can be awful, they put others down to make them feel better about themselves. But whatever... now you know you look good! Here's to seeing ourselves for the beautiful tall women that we are :drinker: You look AWESOME!!!

MireyGal76 · March 2013

I TOTALLY understand!! I am 6'1". I was 5'11" and 150 lbs in 6th grade. It took awhile for me to realize that at my height if I weighed 105 like the other girls it would be a serious problem. People can be awful, they put others down to make them feel better about themselves. But whatever... now you know you look good! Here's to seeing ourselves for the beautiful tall women that we are :drinker: You look AWESOME!!!

that was huge for me too... I will never forget the day I crossed 127 (grade 9)... I was officially the heaviest of all my friends, and it was a weird brain moment. I'm not sure why that was a trigger number, but it was and it was a huge struggle to cross that line and know I'd never return.

now, I'm happy at 160 - 170, depending on water, muscle mass, and holidays lol.

BurtHuttz · March 2013

You are beautiful.

supermodelchic · March 2013

Yeah!!!! Good for you! feeling good in a bikini is a great feeling, and you are a beautiful girl.. I use to be called spagetti head because of my hair color, I to, was not the it girl did not really date at all , now I 'm glad because I have my forever husband been with him since I was 17 , he was smart to see what those dumb boys did not, so it is their loss you are a such a good catch now.

mq68 · March 2013

flaunt it if you got it, and you got this! good for you!

turkeyhunter60 · March 2013

Wow!

mlkiel · March 2013

All I saw was ABS-ABS-ABS...I want those ABS...you look ABSolutely amazing, and congrats for over coming those demons!!!

jooonesy · March 2013

So DOPE! You look amazing!

UKMarjie · March 2013

This may seem like a "whatever" moment for a lot of people, but it is huge for me.

When I was in school, I was mocked. A lot. For being tall (6'1") fat (I wasn't) stupid (I wasn't) unpopular (I was) and geeky (I was). I was nicknamed sasquatch, and told that noone would ever date me.

I lived that identity and have fought with it for over twenty years.

I have never been overweight, maybe at most 20 pounds, but in my HEAD, I saw obese.

People have probably seen me around here, strutting my abs, and they may have thought I was so full of myself. Heck, look, here she goes posting another thread. But I'm here to say that I have slaughtered myself so many times for how I look, that those thoughts are so inaccurate they're unbelievable.

It is because of this site, that I am FINALLY learning to see me... for me...

Now, enough of that bs... (as in... I'm dropping that topic, and walking away from that past for good)..

I have always wanted a string bikini. Why? I don't know. Maybe because it represents the consummate of sexy? Or maybe because I thought I could never have one.... regardless I wanted one. And I would try them on, and hate them, and actually get emotionally upset, and leave.

Today I did it again. I tried on a string, and got emotional and hated it. So I sent a pic to a friend... and when I looked at the pic... it didn't look bad. So I tried a different pose... and that pic didn't look bad. And then all of a sudden.. what I was seeing in the mirror matched what I saw in the camera.

I wasn't seeing ME for ME... I was seeing me through the filter of all those mean things said to me.

So here you go, folks.. here is my new bikini... but more than that... HERE IS MY VICTORY OVER THOSE 20 YEAR OLD DEMONS!

RRRRRRRAAAAAAAWWWWWWWRRRRR!!!

Good for you. You look fantastic and I'll be you are raring to go on getting that baby (suit or self) out and strutting it on the beach.

My nickname in school was "Large Marge" - being that I was actually never overweight and hugely into sports still didn't stop me from developing a complex about being this lump they told me I was. It is amazing how long we hang on to all the garbage that people put on us! Good for you demon slayer!