Comments on: Fat Girl Bikini

By: autoversicherung

autoversicherung — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:36:59 +0000

last few days our class held a similar talk on this topic and you illustrate something we have not covered yet, appreciate that.

- Kris

By: Sotah

Sotah — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:31:11 +0000

Have a great time sexy lady! I just bought myself a knew bikini for the summer, since I am wearing the bikini from last summer in all my freaking vacation photos! I am able to squeeze into a XL at target, which certainly makes it easier for me to buy bikini’s I can wear. Also, I believe there are sellers on etsy that make custom bikini’s in large sizes.

By: fattie L

fattie L — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:55:26 +0000

Sitting on my couch ready for a swim. I love swimming. I have been contemplating in my fat feminist movement this very issue. Under my sundress I’ve got my Lane Bryant Tankini all rolled up under my boobs. This is the best I can do for a bikini aside from Love Your Peaches, which I found last year when I set out to be that fat girl. The Fat Girl In A Bikini. I’m probably a size 26. And only once did I bikini it up last swim season… and there were only two other people at the lake where I was. Amazingly I didn’t hear them laughing or see them pointing and grimacing… but what led me to search “Fat Girl Bikini” on the google for some positive re-reinforcement before I head out was a scene I had with my sister today. We passed a woman on a bike who was wearing a sports bra and a pair of shorts. She was probably a size 10-12? Her pale belly was hanging over her shorts as were her weenie little love handles… and my sister had the quasi taken aback reaction… followed with the response “congratulations on your confidence!” Now my sister’s body is as lean as a lioness… and she’s one of the most supportive people in my life, but it did set me back a little… like, “you have that reaction to her? If you didn’t know me, and showed up to the lake with me in my bikini, what would you say?” And then I spend 15 minutes in the mirror contemplating whether or not I really wanted to go on with my plans for a swim and if I was going to worry about the tankini down or up and how do I look, do I feel confident.. etc etc.

But now, after oogling the women at Love Your Peaches strutting their plentiful rolls and thighs and flesh… and being reminded with confidence that this act I’m about to commit may be one of the braver f-yous a feminist can make… I am emboldened and off to the lake. Make-shift bikini and all.

Thank you.

By: Java

Java — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:48:03 +0000

The problem I have with bikinis is that they actually restrict women’s movement. In a bikini, you can’t really jump into the water and swim like mad without risking the top coming off. Is it so bad to say I don’t like wearing high heels and I don’t like wearing a bikini? I like to be comfortable and free. That’s my feminism.

By: prkat

prkat — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:57:14 +0000

I applaud you. On my honeymoon I planned on wearing a bikini. Finally. This was despite being a swimmer once in my youth (where I thought I was too fat, if only I could see myself now!). The past few months I’ve kept going back & forth and still think I was too large (now at a Size 10-12) but you know what it’s time to quit letting whatever hold me back! I will wear a bikini this year on my honeymoon.