3. Women who aren’t conventionally attractive, when was the first time you unders...

Women who aren’t conventionally attractive, when was the first time you understood you didn’t look like media presented as beautiful and attractive?

I was 6. I knew that pretty girls had thick curly hair they could wear in braids and pigtails and stuff. They had big blue eyes and wide toothy smiles. They had skinny legs and skinny arms. They were small and cute or tall and gangly.

I have brown eyes, thin limp hair that didn't grow past my ears till I was 12. I had weird squinty eyes, and my smile when I had baby teeth I always looked scowly when I smiled.

I had slumped shoulders and big muscular arms (at age 6!) and I was frequently mistaken for a boy, nothing skinny about me. I was tall and big. . not acceptable.

But most of all, I noticed that no one ever called me a "pretty little girl" lol

Thankfully puberty was somewhat kind. I lost the squintyness and my adult teeth came in and gave me a more normal looking smile. My hair thickened a bit and I could at least do French braids for my gymnastics meets. Even with the gymnastics, my body softened out and by the time I was 13 I was a D-cup and looked 21. It was a crazy switch!

I'm average now, not ugly, not beautiful.

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