Fat =/= curvy

I don't get irritated by it... possibly because I have more important things in my life than what "society" views as CURVY.. who cares? If you know what YOU are, that's really all that should matter to you.

If you're basing your definition of "curvy" strictly on WHR then technically anything anything <,>, but ≠ 1.0 would be "curvy", unless there's more to the definition like, for example, "curvy" means hip measurement > waist measurement. Then only a ratio <1.0 would be "curvy". My last waist and hip measurements were 51.5'' and 61'' respectively, This gives me a WHR of 0.844 which would make me curvy according to this definition, but certainly not according to "curvy" being any WHR < 0.70.

I don't think I'll ever have a WHR < 0.70 The lowest WHR I think I'd even want is around 0.75, which is definitely a healthy WHR, but not curvy by the restrictive "< 0.70" definition. I personally think that those with WHR <0.70 look kind of silly. I wouldn't want my hips to be that big.

LOL, my WHR is 0.68. Do I look silly?

And I thought 7.0 and below was the standard for curvy WHR. You won't get that without a pretty big difference between your hips and your waist, in which case, you would look curvy, no?

No, love. You're quite gorgeous actually. Perhaps I could adjust my definition of "silly". Let's make "silly" mean a WHR < 0.63.

Why is anyone offended if someone who is fat but doesn't have the "ideal" hip-to-waist ratio wants to call themselves curvy? Who cares? Enough with the body shaming, lets all just love our body SHAPE (which can't be changed as opposed to SIZE) whether it's curvy or straight up and down!

No one is offended. Once again jumping to ridiculous conclusions. SO body shaming either. Just stating personal definitions of what "curvy" is. Curvy looks great, and so does the opposite!

Did you read the original post? The OP said they were annoyed when the term curvy was applied to overweight people in general, I hardly think it's a stretch to assume they were offended if they were annoyed. That's great if you think curvy and the opposite look great, but I didn't read any posts on here praising ruler shaped bodies with undefined waists because let's be real, it's not a desired body type by most of the population (again, not talking body fat %, just natural body shapes).

All I'm saying in, why is it of such concern what other people want to label their body shape as, whether it's accurate or not?

If you're basing your definition of "curvy" strictly on WHR then technically anything anything <,>, but ≠ 1.0 would be "curvy", unless there's more to the definition like, for example, "curvy" means hip measurement > waist measurement. Then only a ratio <1.0 would be "curvy". My last waist and hip measurements were 51.5'' and 61'' respectively, This gives me a WHR of 0.844 which would make me curvy according to this definition, but certainly not according to "curvy" being any WHR < 0.70.

I don't think I'll ever have a WHR < 0.70 The lowest WHR I think I'd even want is around 0.75, which is definitely a healthy WHR, but not curvy by the restrictive "< 0.70" definition. I personally think that those with WHR <0.70 look kind of silly. I wouldn't want my hips to be that big.

LOL, my WHR is 0.68. Do I look silly?

And I thought 7.0 and below was the standard for curvy WHR. You won't get that without a pretty big difference between your hips and your waist, in which case, you would look curvy, no?

No, love. You're quite gorgeous actually. Perhaps I could adjust my definition of "silly". Let's make "silly" mean a WHR < 0.63.

haha, thanks.

I'd love to see what a ratio of .63 looks like, though. I'd imagine it's lovely. The smaller the better, in my eyes.

I'd like you to imagine someone with a 25'' waist and 50'' hips. That would be a WHR of 0.50. 25'' waist and 40'' hips would be 0.625. So 0.63 would be, for example, a 24'' waist with 38'' hips.

to each their own, if it makes person feel better about them selves to say that i see no harm in it, i just dont get why people feel the need to attack people who say it. For the most part I do agree fat dont not = curvy, but like i said if someone calls them selves that I say more power to them, but just IMO

I also did not read all 10 pages, but I read the first page and got the gist that people dislike using <blank> as a descriptor for something they consider bad because they would rather <blank> be applied to them as a compliment instead. Which seems like... "Oh no! Someone fat took our word and now we can't use it to feed our ego!" and I guess my pity doesn't extend that far.

I wish the media would do more to celebrate bodily diversity, rather than just fat > curvy > perfect & some cellulite thrown in for flavour, but I'm frankly okay with fat people calling themselves whatever they wish if they're happy with themselves.

Thank you. Why does it matter if a woman is overweight/obese calls herself curvy? To me that says she needs to feel like cr@p for being big, but instead she may call herself curvy because is confident and comfortable with herself. Not all large women cry in a corner because they are big. Some of them are proud to be who they are regardless of size. To me, whatever makes them happy. If you have never been in their shoes, never been a LARGE (i'm talking 250+lbs here) woman you should not judge. People have body issues at any and every size. People also have confidence and are happy with themselves at any and every size. If someone is 500lbs but they are more than happy with it, who cares?