Do you have a booty?
February 17, 2009 by angelique
Filed under Women's Health
Being a former (always?) anorexic, I can’t really relate to the “I love my booty” craze. Yet I have plenty of students who ADORE their ample bottoms! I’m serious — the gals just 100% embrace their curviness in a way that makes me envious!
Have you ever felt that way about your derriere? I know I just don’t look at mine with eyes of adoration… but wish I could!
Being a younger sufferer, I grew up through the whole “I like big butts” thing, so I never knew a time when a larger rear end wasn’t ideal. What I think is significant in that, is that’s the only part of my body I have never flat out HATED. I’m still critical of it, as everyone is, however I have never once said or thought “I hate the size of my bum.” That may actually be, dare I say it, my favorite part of me. My ideal self has always been flat stomach, tiny arms, tiny legs, with still a round bottom. I’ve never wanted that to be excessively small as I wanted the rest of me to be.
Am I the only one? Maybe it’s just one of those things in which this disease expresses itself differently in everyone.
I more or less lost my ass this summer — and I miss it. A lot. I don’t really feel genuinely sad about having lost other things I’ve lost because of my ed but I miss having a butt! The last time I got drunk I think I described it as more of an anti-butt, like a butt-specific black hole of some sort.
I’m a gay man, so that might contribute to this attitude a lot. And I don’t miss general curviness — the less hips I have the better, is more or less my opinion — just the butt.