Okay.........if you guys are brave enough to post pics not that you need to be because you are all gorgeous then I am going to jump in and scare you all with mine LOL!
This picture was taken by Louise and Lee at the Cat Show! It is the most flattering *sigh* I had to crop it a bit to cut out all the fat rolls though LMAO!!! Oh dear never mind you guys have to love me anyway! If you just squint and focus on Tatyana and then it looks a whole lot better! So without further ado!!!!!!!!
Leslie, I don't know what's wrong with you. We are all our own worst critics, but you win the prize! Well - Heidi is pretty hard on herself too.
Stop beating yourself up so much! (You too, Heidi!) You're gorgeous! You really have no need to be so darn self-conscious. We're not all in love with the image of stick-thin models.
You're a beautiful person, inside AND OUT - and don't you forget it!!!!!!!!!
hi guys, I'm really sorry but I can't find a single picture of me or my cats that fit to the specifications of TheCatSite. So here's the web page where you can see us. http://groups.msn.com/RELM/mypics.msnw?albumlist=2
Hope you enjoy.
Brenda, that's a great pic. You look like you are having so much fun! I would have never guessed that pic to be your 30th birthday, 25 maybe!
Leslie, I don't care what you think, you are beautful. Just ask Pete! No, really, you have such an expressive face, and just beautiful eyes. Focus on the things you can see as positive. We all see lots of them!
Tamme, I loved all the pics in your album. You are also very pretty! And your kitties are very cute, too!
Heidi, I was having a lot of fun that day. I think I like that picture because I remember how special Dan made me feel. You should take your own advice about looking at the positives. Your personality shines through in your picture, you look so happy and we all know what a great person you are.
Leslie, you don't have to be so hard on yourself either. You look very pretty in your picture.
It's too bad we are all so hard on ourselves. Somehow, I think some men think they look good even if we don't think they do
Well I have managed to find one of me,when I am almost sober. I am a bit camera shy so the only time anyone has been able to get pictures of me is when I am a bit merry
I agree with what everyone says about you all being so beautiful both inside and out. I look back on the photos of me in my late teens and 20s when I did a bit of modelling and had a figure and I just want to cry. Back then I can see the girl that everyone said was good looking and had a great body etc but, I was too shy and introverted and didn't believe it then either! I am shocked by the way I look now, I see the fat rolls, the double chin (or is it triple LOL!) The bad skin, dark circles, and wrinkled goose flesh on my neck, and all the at 36!!! I want to get motivated to do something about it but I guess the pain barrier has given me an excuse!
I don't think I have heard of anyone who is happy with themselves. We don't see ourselves through others eyes. I guess it's a bad habit to get into, to criticise yourself and put yourself down. We come from a society that abhors self love and appreciation, instead classifying it as vain and sinful. We are forever bombarded with airbrushed pictures of how a woman should look as dictated by mostly homosexual males in the fashion industry, to be larger than a size 8 means strict dieting and exercising. Gone are the days when a woman was revered when she had lot's of curves. In the olden days if a woman was skinny she was considered ill and of poor stock. I also don't know many men who want their woman to be like a stick insect but, still we battle on trying to attain the unattainable! Our lives wasted away with self hatred and loathing, I am ashamed to go out into public, self-conscious of my body and face! Oh how I wish that I didn't care, that I could be happy with me because it's all I've got! I am working on it!
Sorry for the long ramble. I do honestly see the beauty both outside and in with everyone here, but find it so hard to turn that inwards towards myself.
Thank you all for your sweet and your kind comments. As always you guys are the best!
Leslie - you have a lovely face, I can't see anything wrong with your figure, and your hair is a fabulous colour.
We all see the worse in ourselves and have a tendency not to believe people when they say we look good (I know, I've had the most major crises of confidence about my body, and it's caused all sorts of problems).
Stupid thing is, I'm not fat, not especially ugly, not too tall or too short But I only see the shortcomings not the whole effect.
So don't you worry, you're way ahead of me in the looks stakes, and you're a year younger!!! Grrrrr.
Ah Yola me mate!!! You make me laugh! Thanks for the encouragement! So you are older than me hey???? hehhee! I'll have to remember that so that I mind my P'S and Q'S LOL!