What Real Women Look Like

In a world full of images of how we "should" look it can get difficult to tell how we DO look. Our hope is to build a site where women can see what real women look like. What we really look like. Most women have spent so many years looking at themselves in mirrors that we can no longer see what's really there. With this project perhaps we will be able to more objectively see what we look like and come to some acceptance that we are all beautiful.
My Body Gallery promotes positive self image and realistic body image by showing what real women look like. Using a collection of photographs searchable by height, weight, pants size, shirt size and body type (apple body type, pear body type, banana body type and hourglass body type), mybodygallery.com helps women answer questions like "what do I look like," "what does a size 6 look like," and "do I look fat." My Body Gallery is about unretouched pictures of real women, but provides great articles as well. The Body Image Blog is stories submitted by women sharing their feelings about their bodies. News and Information is full of ideas about how to dress your body type, as well as body image studies and statistics. The only site of its kind, My Body Gallery is not about weight loss, dieting, or being judged for your appearance. It is not about slimming clothing or cosmetics. It is an accepting community of women who anonymously share their secrets about their bodies to help you feel more comfortable in your own skin.

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Disappear

 All my life I've had a body complex. I thought everything about me needed to just DISAPPEAR!

The Skinny Girl

I was born a chubby, healthy baby—the chubbiest of my siblings, in fact. But by the time I was in kindergarten I had slipped down the growth charts, and became just plain skinny.

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NEWS AND INFORMATION

A Note About Sizing

Currently all sizes are in US sizes. We are thrilled with the international attention that is now coming to our project and we hope to add additional sizing options soon. Thank you!  

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This site is here as an accurate reflection of what real women look like. All women.

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A Little Bit Leaner, A Little Bit More Toned
05/18/2010

 I've practically been a twig my entire life... A twig with a distorted body image,

 

with a profession that constantly pushed me to be thinner, but a twig nonetheless. I always knew I was thin, but always wanted to be just a little bit leaner, a little bit toned...

I'm 5'9 and I fluctuated between 110 and 120 lbs... Like I said, a twig.

About a year ago, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. I moved to a new country. Everything changed.

I'm bigger now, I topped out this winter at about 165, with a body image that had plummeted to well below freezing. I loved the new D-cups, the butt, but the tummy, the thighs, the sheer bulk of me... It scared me, it appaled me...None of my clothes fit me anymore. Still don't. I blamed it on the changes, the new disease. All legitimate claims. But on a deep, subconcious level I felt I had failed, I had lost control...

The warmer it gets outside, the little excesses are starting to fall away. But I'm still uncomfortable. I still don't know what size I am when I go shopping.

 Still wish I was just a little bit leaner, a little bit more toned.

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