Body Image

Body Image

I feel as though body image is something that I will never be comfortable with. My body image is something that I have struggled with almost my entire life. I do not like my breasts. I feel as though they are so tiny compared to the rest of the women in my family. I do have the smallest breasts out of all of the women in my family and it has always made me feel so self-conscious. Also, I just feel as though they just look weird. I know that they probably do not and are normal, but when I look in the mirror I just wish that they looked different. If I would describe my breasts, I would choose to describe them as small, abnormal, and disproportionate. I chose small because I feel as though they are small when compared to the rest of the women in my family. My little sister has triple D’s and my mother has DD’s. I barely have a B cup and cannot compare to the size that my mom and sister have. Abnormal describes my breasts because when I look at them in the mirror, I do not see normal looking breasts, whatever those are supposed to look like. I feel as though they look different compared to other women’s and I am not quite sure why. I know that they are probably normal, but I just feel as though they are not. I chose to describe them as disproportionate just because even though I am small does not mean that I have to have small breasts. I have seen plenty of women that are small and have larger breasts than I do. Since I am more muscular than most women and I have larger legs and arms I feel as though I should have larger breasts and I look disproportionate since I don’t.

I don’t think my family members have really ever said anything negative on their own. My mom will always joke that I got in the brain line instead of the boob line and my little sister vice versa. I would much rather be smart than have large breasts, but at the same time when your younger sister has much larger breasts than you it does not make you feel very good. Sometimes the...