Do you ever felt fat and ugly?

With my sisters and my beautiful daughter - Im fat but my face is pretty.
Philippines
April 12, 2007 9:41am CST
I feel better now, as an overweight but confident mom, than I ever did as an anorexic, insecure teenager who was terrified at the very thought of my scrawny little body someday being "ruined" by pregnancy. (Indeed, I gained 50lbs. during my pregnancy and I have stretch marks even on the backs of my calves, but I have a beautiful, brillant, and healthy daughter to show for it). I look back at old photos and wonder, how could I ever think I was fat then? But now I appreciate what makes me "me" and Im very forgiving of my little "faults".
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4 responses
@gaby_girl (157)
• Canada
17 May 07
I feel ugly a lot. Fat sometimes, but yeah I have my bad days. Sometimes I feel good about my body (im at 107 at the moment) and sometimes I feel like im a big fat whale, and that im never gonna be able to reach my goal. Id say that 50% of the time I feel really ugly. Ive just never been able to feel completely good about myself. Unfortunately, I dont think that that is ever going to change.
• Philippines
22 May 07
being slim is I think make you feel confident also its good for health as well.
@ikinta (1236)
• Indonesia
13 May 07
I don't felt ugly but I do overweight when I was still in school. Now I control what to eat and lots of exercise. Not for a good body though, just for a healthy body.
• Philippines
14 May 07
thats good...
@kooulet (69)
• Philippines
18 May 07
I've always felt that way. Ever since I was young, I was really fat and I had this ugly hair and pimpled face during my teen years. No one courted me during highschool. I wasn't anybody in the batch. And I blamed my being fat and ugly for that. But as I grew older, I realized that I had the choice. There's always room for change if you'd be open and you'll permit yourself into getting a different you. And I realized that It's not bad after all. It's the thought that you make yourself, except with what you are born with having. Being open for change can turn your thoughts from being fat and ugly into being sexy and beautiful. It's just within you actually. It's how you opt things to be because as I've said, we always have the choice.
@jlara_gtr34 (3491)
• Philippines
22 May 07
yes, i have experienced those days when i felt fat and ugly and those days are the times when i want to stay at home and not show myself to the world. i am really very conscious of my appearance but to tell you the truth, i just weigh 90lbs and im even 4lbs underweight according to the body mass index calculator. i think there's something wrong with me and my self image for thinking that way sometimes. :(