Turn back the clock!

[Ellen Forradalom]

I'm tired of being middle-aged with a spare tire and drooping boobs!

Yesterday my four-year-old said, "Mommy, I see your big butt!" I told him, "Honey, take some advice. Don't EVER say that to a female of the species."

[Lady Freedom]

1. I'm 25 and I have a spare 18 wheeler tire around my middle...

at lest that what it feels like and dd that hang instead of being firm and shapely! So I know how you feel!

[Snow]

2. Oh come on...

I know the cliches claim its worse for women - but I didn't really feel competent until I hit my 40's. Now, pushing 60, I feel like an authority in my field, and pretty damn knowledgable about life in general - but at the same time more open to learning than I probably was in my 20's. So my knees don't work so well & my sinuses give me pain & I need a root canal.......it's fun anyway.

[Skittles]

3. snow, with all due respect - men have no f***ing clue

no clue whatsoever what we women endure.

[Lady Freedom]

4. How true!

You tell them all(men) Skittles!

[Snow]

5. *sigh* I suppose not.....

I've been told that, and it's hard to assimilate. I mean, I like my gray hair and beard. But how many women my age have that? Gray hair, I mean. Thanks for the due respect, anyway, for a clueless male. But you know, if masculine appreciation means anything, there are some of us (current writer included) who have no understanding at all of the attraction of younger women to older men. Life experiences and stages are so different....and believe it or not, women my own age are more attractive then women my daughter's age.....good thing I'm married to one.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. I'm 54 and my hair is partly gray.

But I don't have a beard. I like men my own age.

[Lars39]

7. I know what you mean.

It's hard to describe the feeling you get when one of "the babes" opens his/her mouth to describe mommy. Very demoralizing. :(

[populistmom]

8. Kids are too honest sometimes.

My five year old son can be the same way, but today he made me smile because he told me I was the prettiest mommy in the world (he must want something).

While, I don't have a spare tire (obliques aren't my big issue), I'm trying to come to terms with my "momly abs" as well. As for boobs, I don't know, I haven't been smaller than a D cup since I was about 14 or 15, so gravity started affecting me at a young age. I figure that's why they make bras!

I had my first baby very young (20) almost 12 years ago and I think I've been coming to terms with some of the body changes that went with it ever since.

[Ellen Forradalom]

11. Yes, when my son says I'm pretty

and Daddy is handsome, I sure do get a warm fuzzy feeling.

[supernova]

9. I'm sympathetic -- to a point

Look, your body changes over a period of time. What you want to be... a mannequin?

Your body contains the roadmap of your life: scars, stretch marks, saggy muscles are all a part of the journey. Would you wish that none of that ever happened? Would you wish you never had kids (those of you who have them)?

Maybe because I never had a perfect body to start with that I'm so adamant about this issue. I have had quite a lovely and alluring scar collection since I was 5. And the years have only added to it. :D

Look in the mirror and, instead of seeing what you think is wrong, celebrate all that you have done and what you still have to do and be.

[Ellen Forradalom]

10. Fair enough

but I still don't like drooping tits.

[Snow]

12. Yeah, that's what i was trying to say....

but
a) I'm clumsy
b) wrong gender, eh....

[supernova]

13. LOL! Fair enough

but you can try lifting weights and toning up the pectoral muscle. It does help. ;-)

[Snow]

14. *chuckle* That would be my response as well. Worst case scenario,

you end up with really buffed pecs and droopy tits over them. What the heck! Sometime, though, a frank discussion of why women have it worse than men as we age would be educational. I really have difficulty understanding it.

[mopinko]

15. you said it

when you find the key to that clock, you will be a rich woman, and you won't care about those boobs. mine have always pointed at the floor anyway, tho.
but if you think the offhand comments of the 4 yo are bad, wait until you get to the screaming, ranting insults of a teenager. (arggghhhh. pulls knife from back, falls to floor)
i am in chicago, too. anytime you want to go cry in a beer, let me know.

[carols]

16. My thing is the bags under my eyes

I am 48 and the body hasn't held up too poorly, but I just look tired a lot. Much of the deterioration has occured since Bush took office and I find myself sitting in front of this computer on information overload instead of getting fresh air or something. I actually watched one of those face-lift surgery programs the other day and thought "I can almost a teensy bit see why people do this." But I am against it on principle. And sometimes the death thing gets to me - hell in 20 years I'll be almost 70. 20 years flashes by like the proverbial snap of a finger. I just want to scream, "BUT I'M NOT DONE YET! I AM NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BEING DONE!"
Carol

[moof]

17. forradalom says her boobies are droopy ...

..... which way to go ?

A. Droopy boobies ? Are you sure ?
Can you really objective about this, it seems a poll is in order,
post some assorted images & let your pals at DU reassure you that
you are most likely overreacting.

hmmmmmmm, probably too long perhaps this would be better.

D. Droopy boobies ? Do you have some pictures to back up that claim ?

Do you want to buy some ?

Also the big behind is surely wrong,
everything looks big to a small child.