On being real

[redbird]

Real women--and real men, but maybe not real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri--have pores in our skin. We come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and all of us, in all those shapes, have pores.

By this--not by weight, shape, or age--may you tell the real woman from the airbrushed model.

Comments

[almeda.livejournal.com]

Hee hee hee. Also, *giggle*

I can tell you, spending too much prepubescent time with my dad's Playboys led me to believe I would have tiny little boy-like areolae, and MAN did that not happen.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Ah. I grew up with Playboy always available to read, and my conclusion was that the women in it were cartoons; I'd seen my mother, and my older sister (who is eleven years older than I am, I think) naked, and they had pores andhair and wrinkles, so I assumed that that's what real women looked like, therefore the ones in magazines weren't real.

[almeda.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd seen my mother naked; I just assumed she was ugly. *sigh*

My grandma's nipple-areas were nowhere near as big; my mom's covered like the WHOLE FRONT of her boob (as, of course, do mine now).

Luckily my now-husband has helped me get over most of my body disphoria.