Eating Disorder Support Forum banner
  • Important - Please Read This website may include conversations, media, and content around topics relating to eating disorders, trauma, addiction, and mental health. Please be aware that this content may be upsetting, difficult, or triggering for some. EDSF is intended as a place of safety. If you or someone you know is struggling with an eating disorder, Feast-ED.org is a resource that lists the organizations set up to help.

Do you hate being female/ having "curves"?

3 reading
4.8K views 65 replies 46 participants last post by  9cals  
#1 ·
How do you deal with it? ..If at all?

I absolutely hate having a female body shape.

I am fine with my gender, I don't want to change my gender to male or be gender fluid. I just absolutely want an androgynous body type. I hate getting my period because it disgusts me, reminds me of the womanly curves which disgust me. This is fine on other people of course I just I can't stand this shape on myself. I also see why it's normal/fine for other people to get their period.

Losing my period when severely underweight is the ONLY time I can manage to be "okay" with myself, but by that point i have heart problems and significant complications of anorexia.

I don't want to reach that point, yet I want to live where every day I don't want to rip all my skin off.

<3
 
G
#5 ·
Omg yes. I want to be a damn stick because I feel like it fits my personality better. I have D/DD boobs and everything looks slutty on me. I want to be able to wear cute bralettes and not have to struggle to find a grandma-looking bra. And bathing suits? Forget it. I need like a large top and small bottoms.
same here! I'm 5'1 with DDD boobs. the size did go up last year because i gained so much weight, but when i was at my LW i went from a C cup to a DD. so it doesnt really have anything to do with my weight its just genetics for me which suck
 
#6 ·
Yep. I thought I was a trans male for years because of how strongly I hate my hips. I just wanna look like a skinny emo boy 😂😂😂 But I'm not, that's just how I feel about my body, I still identify as non binary, but not male...
 
  • Like
Reactions: echobean3
#8 ·
personally i don't want to have an androgynous looking body- i want some curves but not to be soft or squishy at all.
 
#13 · (Edited by Moderator)
I'm okay with having some curves but I absolutely hate my breasts. I used to wear a binder until I wore it so much it ripped. For a while I was really confused about my gender and whether I was trans but I know now it's just my breasts, they just feel like lumps of fat that make me look like a pig. They aren't even big I think I have a small torso they just look so weird.. The feeling of touching them makes me cringe, I wish I had little cute breasts maybe I could live with that. Sorry for the rant!
 
#14 · (Edited by Moderator)
Yes,
I think I would look disgusting with 'real' boobs and more fat and I don't want to get my period, although I do want to be a female. I also like wearing fairly androgynous and plain, dark clothing, don't wear any makeup ( unless I am acting in which case I totally ham it up and go crazy when it makes sense ) ( I'm not an actor or anything, didn't mean to humblebrag there literally just like summer camps and stuff ) sorry I am getting off track....

Like, other people can totally look fine like that, but not me?? I do like having a small waist though. And I want a 'feminine' face.. but like 0 body fat, which obviously makes me look more masculine? It's confusing.

Oh and sorry, editing to say I deal with it by strength incessantly, obsessing over my weight and body fat and protein and calories and nutrients, leading to maintaining an objectively underweight ( but still fat looking whyyyy ) weight.
I have managed to avoid getting a period and fully developed breasts up to this point, but you could probably 'reverse' that, meaning lose enough weight and fat to remove those characteristics, ****IF**** you are willing to sacrifice your health and longevity, which is probably a terrible idea and I'm a hypocrite but, don't do it.
 
#15 ·
Would you consider wearing a binder and/or taking testosterone (that one's a bit more out there) and/or a hysterectomy. You don't have to want to switch your name/pronouns to wear a binder.
I'm definitely considering a hysterectomy because getting my period is really affecting my health and making my anorexia worse. It is the only time I can tolerate myself is at the lowest of weights which isn;t sustainable. yet if i gain weight, even now I am a BMI of 17.5, I can't stand how my body still is "curvy" yet sort of bony. I will never truly be "not curvy"... Having less fat on my body helps greatly though. I wear compression garments which help when it is NOT summer. I don't feel my body jiggle when I move around which freaks me out so much. The summer is triggering as it's unavoidable to wear less clothes/ can not self-harm. I end up restricting the most then.
 
#17 · (Edited by Moderator)
So like a muscular build yet with some curves? this helps me the more I exercise it helps counteract the curves if that makes sense.
not even muscle necessarily, but more like i wish i could change my body type/shape altogether :lol: smaller waist but not super-tiny hips, i guess.

and yes that makes total sense!
 
#18 · (Edited by Moderator)
It's always seemed to me like a common cause of eating disorders in women is a rejection of "womanhood", either because of a sexual assualt and the subsequent desire to be unappealing sexually to your abuser, or a strong dislike of how women are expected to act and the roles they're expected to take on in society.
Personally I do feel like my ED stems partially from my disgust with pregnancy and babies and a desire to never ever ever become a housewife.
Edit: Obvi there are other reasons women with eating disorders might want to not be feminine, just some musings/generalizations based on what I've observed.
 
#22 · (Edited by Moderator)
I don't want an ass or thighs. I hate being thick and squishy. If I could have small thighs and a small butt at a healthy weight I would but it's just not possible with my body shape. I mostly don't want to be viewed sexually. I'm sick of it.
THIS! Thankfully I already have smaller breasts but I have wide hips and (according to my friend) "thicc thighs." I HATE IT SO MUCH. I know I don't want to be a man, but I just hate having curves so much. I'm so glad I'm not the only one that is ok with their gender, just wants a more androgynous look
 
#23 ·
i'm a flat stick and i hate it. like why don't i just have small curves? since my weightloss began everything i ever had (which wasn't much) i lost. the boys in school always make jokes about me being flat:( i look like a 12 year old girl but on the other side having curves also means extra weight and i really don't need that. i don't know how to feel about being a stick but i hope that i will lose my period as soon as i hit my goalweight!
 
#24 ·
I have 75B Eur size boobs and my jeans are small size but I still think I have too much bum and boobs. Why if they’re so “small”? Welp because I wanna look like a child, I know it’s because of my trauma but I can’t help it, having an adult body stresses me to no end. I want to be a complete plank.
 
#26 · (Edited by Moderator)
this is very relatable:( i developed really fast which i always read is a big trigger for many people developing EDs. i like being a girl im fine with my gender but i also badly want an androgynous body. i have always been curvy and had big hips and huge boobs and i hate it. i badly want to wear crop tops and bralettes without it being sexual. im also pretty disgusted by my period. i just wanna have lil a or b cups and lil narrow hips and shoulders.