I am NOT particularly petite or slim. I am 171 cm (sorry, only know the metric system, so have no idea what that equals in American) and weigh more than 80 kg (don't know what that equals in pounds). My weight especially bothers me. I don't look fat, at least not with my clothes on, I have never been called it by anyone either and I can see that I might seem just curvy with clothes on. My main problems are my thighs, which are huge and so cellulite-infested that you could feed a third-world country if each cellulite magically produced a cookie.

This is definitely a cultural phenomenon. All I see on posters, in magazines, in TV shows, movies etc., are thin, slim women. Actually, the first time I got really self-conscious about this was when watching CSI. There was a female murder victim, at around my height - but she weighed like 60 kg. And after that, I've noticed they all do, in all crime shows. Their weight are either in the 50s or the (early) 60s. Never heard of a woman weighing around 70 or more unless they make a point of her being "big" somehow (like a serial killer preferring "plus-size" victims etc.). It seems silly, extremely silly, I am aware of it. But to this day - I am 23 - it still bothers me. It makes my weight seem even more abnormal and unthinkable, it makes me feel like a whale. Which bothers me because most of the time, in my daily life, I don't think about it all that much. But whenever weight is brought up in popular culture, the women always weigh virtually nothing and they are all embarassed about it thinking they weigh too much.

So, huge thighs. My breasts are pretty big too, but I know that if I lose weight they would get smaller (contrary to the porn-induced myth, this is how it truly works, ladies). My stomach used to be quite flat but now I have some serious love handles and problems finding jeans fit. Still, I don't think people would look at me and think "fat", because all of these things are hidden under clothes and with the right ones you can make yourself look taller, slimmer, underline some areas and hide others, etc. But it sometimes seriously inhibits me from getting naked, even though all the men I have been intimate with have found me incredibly sexy, which doesn't fit with how I see myself at all.