Welcome to the Secret Confessions thread. Beyond the pure anonymity of the internet, there lies a certain level of understanding behind all the accounts here on FF. The SC account carries burden of allowing the user to give a candid, private confession with (hopefully) understanding feedback. The SC thread is for other posters to give kind and/or helpful advice, words of empathy, or a secret of their own (under the SC name or not).
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Why don't you believe me? I definitely do. I used to hate them, but they don't really bother me so much. If this is what it takes for me to have hips and boobs, you know what, that's a good enough deal to me.
Since you don't believe me, look, it's my hip! (The worst one are on my boobs, but obviously this will have to do because child porn is kind of extremely illegal and I'm not quite that immodest.) This picture makes me look really really fat. I swear I'm not that fat, I swear
EDIT @Hannah -- Nobody should ever let stretchmarks, scars, or otherwise, stop them from wearing a string bikini if they want to wear a string bikini.
I actually am, but I am a very good photographer. I think that's where my obsession with photography and makeup and clothes comes from. You can take something that's not beautiful, and you can make it beautiful. With the right products, you have the ability to micro-manage nature. It's not as good as changing it, but it works for me.
And honey, I took a full year photography class last year. I know all the little tricks, and I know how to tell when someone's used them. You'd be just as beautiful with a picture at a normal angle in broad daylight.
Well "fat" is highly subjective... To some people it's anyone who's not skinny and to some it's just the morbidly obese. It's really pointless to argue if I am or not, but I'm not skinny.
And I know for a fact that I don't, because I have an entire folder of photos of me at a normal angle in daylight that will never see the light of day because I look awful.