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

Why?

A recent study found that 95% of non-eating disordered women overestimate the size of their hips by 16% and their waists by 25%, yet the same women were able to correctly estimate the width of a box.

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Everything It Can Do For Me
10/16/2011

I'll never be a size six.

 

Not a US size six, and not a size six in Australia, my husband's homeland, where six is the smallest size, and the women couldn't believe Americans had a size zero - how can your clothes be size nothing?

But that's just fine with me. I love my size 12, 184 pound strong, fast, imperfect body.

Sadly it hasn't always been that way. I've done what many of you have, counting carbs, calories and cost as I lay on the bed trying to zip those damn jeans.

Once, while we were driving my Mom, a strong and beautiful lady, said that she'd like to lose just 5 pounds. I'd like to lose 50, I replied.

When I moved away to college I seized the opportunity that all the changes presented. Since I no longer needed to commute to high school, I spent that time in the gym. Despite nights out and an unlimited dining plan, I lost the freshmen fifteen and then some, coming home about 35 pounds lighter after freshmen year, dropping away from my all-time high of 222.

In the years since then pounds have come off and come on, but I've stayed in the same general weight range. However, I can say without a doubt that I'm the healthiest I've been in my life.

I may not weigh what the books say I should, but I can do push-ups, on my toes. I can sprint a kilometer, hold a plank, hike a mountain, and have an amazing time with my man.

I work hard for my body, and damned if I'm not going to like the result.

Even I can sometimes get caught up on the number on the scale, but that number really doesn't change a thing.

I LOVE MY BODY, and EVERYTHING it can do for me.

Kelly, 22. Size 12, 184 pounds.

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