Because I just got a comment saying this (from my Obese Senior Photos post):
You’re not obese. You look awesome.
But I am obese. You measure how much I weigh and how tall (/short) I am, I have officially earned the label ‘obese’.
And just because you are obese doesn’t mean you can’t be awesome. You can be obese and awesome, not ‘obese but awesome’ or ‘fat but beautiful’. You can be both. You can be fat and beautiful.
I had forgotten to post my ocean photo shot pictures from vacation back in July. I just remembered about them recently, and now I can use them for this post! (sorry for deviantart peeps who have already seen them)
*POSE TIME!* lol… I guess it should also be *PREPARE-FOR-TROLLS-WHO-ARE-JUST-CONCERNED-ABOUT-MY-HEALTH-AND/OR-THINK-I-LOOK-UGLY-AS-SHIT/AM-A-BEACHED-WHALE-TIME* too. Whew, that’s a lot to say! Whatevs, they’ll be marked as spam anyway and life will move on. BEGIN TEH PHOTOS!
if thats obese then what am I???
By: dee on October 18, 2008
at 3:57 pm
Some of your posing faces make you look like a fat Rachel Maddow. Hot!
By: April on October 18, 2008
at 4:36 pm
I love you, Liz.
Cute bikini!
By: Diana on October 18, 2008
at 4:46 pm
This person is right, you are very beautiful, you should be proud of your figure and not feel defensive about it. Personally I don’t see you as fat, I’d describe you as curvalicious, but that’s objective
I was inspired by you to put up some bikini pics on my own blog as I’ve been having self confidence issues lately – I’m just average, I wouldn’t call myself skinny or overweight. But I feel that women are berating themselves and their sex to such an extent that we don’t ‘own’ our own skin anymore. It is up to the opinions of others to decide if we are beautiful, fat, thin, ugly, acceptable etc. If everyone put naked pictures of themselves up on the blogosphere, we’d have a much healthier view of the fact that bodies come in all manor of shapes and sizes, not just size 0 that is saturating the media. You are doing something really important, especially for young girls in need of a role model for self confidence.
My body related posts are here http://alexbettylou.wordpress.com/category/stripped-naked/
By: alexbettylou on October 18, 2008
at 6:19 pm
dee- I’m not saying I’m obese as in ‘I’m so fat’ and there’s a fatter girl standing right next to me. That isn’t what I mean at all. I’m just saying that according to BMI charts and all that bullshit, I am obese. I’m not trying to say that my obese-ness is the best and people who are more obese than me are unacceptable. I’m sorry if you think that what what I’m trying to say. I don’t think it should matter how big or small someone is, they should love and be comfortable with themselves the way they are. Again, I apologize.
By: lovemeformexox on October 18, 2008
at 9:42 pm
Damn straight Liz, obese AND awesome!
Bloody hawt! Rrrrrrrrrawr!
By: Marshmallow on October 18, 2008
at 11:36 pm
Just for the record, I covet your hair.
And I really admire your self-confidence. I still struggle sometimes with the “oh, I’m fat so I must be ugly” mindset, and it’s really cool to see someone like you who refuses to buy into that. You are totally awesome and an inspiration to me.
By: Izzy on October 19, 2008
at 2:33 am
Liz, you are fat and f***ng gorgeous. I love you and your bikini pics. You rawk that bod.
By: dollyann on October 19, 2008
at 2:27 pm
pretty bathing suit!
I like the 6th picture…it’s looks so modely…if thats a word?
By: Nikki on October 19, 2008
at 7:59 pm
Girl, you are obsese and SOOOO awesome!! I would give anything to have the courage and self-assurance to have pictures taken of me in a bathing suit — a two-piece, no less! — and put them out for everyone to see. I don’t even like to have my picture taken wearing regular clothes because I hate the way I look, and I haven’t so much as put on a two-piece since I was in elementary school.
I have to say, you just impress me so much. I’m a lot older than you, like old enough to be your mother technically, and I’m just now letting go of the weight-related self-hate. When I was your age I loathed myself because of my body. You are LIGHT YEARS ahead of me.
Go you!! You rock!!
By: Jesus Saves, I Spend on October 19, 2008
at 8:56 pm
I also covet your hair. xD
By: The University Princess on October 20, 2008
at 10:02 am
well, I guess you could take it that way, but what I was trying to get at is you don’t have to worry about being “obese” or “fat” or “skinny”. If you look awesome, you look awesome. There doesn’t have to be some stupid body mass qualifier in there. So chillax about yourself and take your awesome looks for granted.
By: eviljim on October 20, 2008
at 10:30 pm
Screw labels, you’re gorgeous, confident and I love you for it!!!! 7th photo down, OMG so hot
By: misstiffie on October 21, 2008
at 9:45 am
You are beautiful and can rock a bikini! I’d die to have an ounce of your confidence. Work it, Girl!!! ~j
By: jae on October 22, 2008
at 3:04 am
Yea!
Rock on for all us fat AND awesome people.
You’re damn pretty.
By: Kait on October 23, 2008
at 4:41 pm
Lookin good Liz! Too bad you didn’t visit where we have REAL beaches like Clearwater. The sand is as pure white as snow! Anyway, keep chuggin cutie!
By: Brooklyn Red Leg on October 23, 2008
at 7:33 pm
You’re wearing a bikini! I don’t even own a bathing suit, I haven’t worn one in years. But there you are, a fat girl like me, weaing a two piece! You’ve got so much confidence, it’s awesome. The suit is so cute, and you’re just gorgeous.
By: Charlotte on October 24, 2008
at 2:13 pm
Love your poses. I like the artsy fartsy ones that are all sephia and b&w. SO cool! Rock on with your bad self!
By: janed21 on October 30, 2008
at 4:29 pm
Now I am jealous of your bikini…
Where did you get it?
I love it!
By: Milla on November 1, 2008
at 12:03 pm
You are so sexy, Liz! What a gorgeous figure! I also love your hair and your bikini is really cute.
By: SM on November 2, 2008
at 3:39 pm
[...] of a Fat Teenager: Beautiful, beautiful photos of the blogger, a wise-beyond-her-years college [...]
By: Posts from around the fatosphere » Manolo for the Big Girl! on November 4, 2008
at 8:01 am
You are exquisite. I envy your confidence, but you know what? I saw those beautiful pictures and thought about how gorgeous you look, THEN I realized that OMG, my body looks an awful lot like yours. This means that I, too, am fat and awesome!
And that’s some kickass photography. Yummy lighting…
By: rascoagogo on November 4, 2008
at 2:56 pm
You are gorgeous and I love these pictures and I LOVE your hair! I’m adding your blog to my Google reader for SURE.
By: HillaryGayle on November 4, 2008
at 6:22 pm
I wish I had your confidence.
By: Dollface on November 4, 2008
at 8:51 pm
i think its really cool how from the photos you can see how much self-confidence you have. its really cool to see that being sort of fat canbe so buatiful! because face it, you are!
and the photos are amazing!
By: lalala...dreamy on November 4, 2008
at 10:29 pm
When I look objectively, your body is nearly the the same proportions as mine. (My boobs are bigger, heh.)
So why is it, when I look at you I think, “Wow, she looks great,” and when I look at me, I think, “God; tell me why I own a mirror again… I make me sick”?
… sigh.
By: elayne on November 5, 2008
at 2:20 am
When I look at your photos, it makes me want to burst into tears. At such a young age you are so self-confident, beautiful, and…COMFORTABLE with yourself. When I was 17, I constantly thought I was hideous. Now, at 34 and 60 pounds heavier, I wish constantly to be as “fat” as I thought I was then. I still just can’t accept my body as it is.
Please never lose your awesome self-image!!
By: Jen Mathis on November 8, 2008
at 10:47 pm
I love your self confidence and outlook on life. We need more people in the world like you =)
By: sugarhorse on November 8, 2008
at 10:58 pm
Rock on, lots of “healthy” folk don’t look nearly as good. I’m about your size, maybe taller but still proportionate, and I love myself but I am totally too shy to wear a bathing suit. You’ve inspired me! I’m going shopping!
By: Lindsay on November 9, 2008
at 1:08 pm
Beautiful!
I don’t remember how I found your blog–do you comment at Shapely Prose? That may be it. But I wanted to leave a compliment both for the photos themselves, and your confidence in displaying them. I do NOT have that kind of courage, so kudos to you.
By: sillycakes on November 12, 2008
at 9:47 am
you trully are inspiring!! i dont have the guts to wear bikini before..but next time i’ll do that!!! you look gorgeus!!
By: karl's on November 14, 2008
at 9:09 am
[...] and at 17 loves herself and her body more than most people ever do. She has several posts of her bikini pictures which are just awesome. I will totally wear a bikini (I bought my first ones ever this summer) [...]
By: Your Body is PERFECT | A Merry Life on November 25, 2008
at 9:24 am
You’re so gorgeous, and your blog is a total inspiration.
By: Alice on November 29, 2008
at 10:22 am
You look amazing. I wish I had your confidence.
By: Anna on December 1, 2008
at 2:35 am
Wow, I seriously wouldn’t consider you obese. I’d say your chubby:) Or maybe chunky but not obese! At any rate you are very pretty. The poses are very cute.
By: Cmay on December 4, 2008
at 9:44 pm
You are beautiful, really.
By: Pei Wen on December 6, 2008
at 5:53 am
I think you’re beautiful, and if everyone had your amazing self confidence, the world would truly be a better place.
By: x Miss Corrine x on December 8, 2008
at 10:33 am
Ohmigosh! Foxy Fatty in the House
By: Uchenna on December 14, 2008
at 3:43 pm
dunno what to say
but actually, while watching the shoots, i felt how pretty you are
and then the first thing that came to my head is that i look so much like you, not just the curvy body but the face too
if these were my pics, then i would never see them beautiful or even near of being good.
i guess it’s how you see yourself is what makes others see you differently too
inspired and amazed by your spirit, guess i will try harder to show that hidden beauty in me
P.S. u are really and absolutely BEAUTIFUL (sorry for the bad English)
By: nadine on December 16, 2008
at 8:45 pm
omigod.cool~
By: shaine ali on January 16, 2009
at 1:50 am
i am a camera whore, and may i just say you have amazing cam-attitude! make love to that camera! ;-D
By: Jenny Santiago on January 24, 2009
at 4:11 pm
Hey i just wanted you to know that wooww you’re gorgeous and i love to see big girls (as i am) so self confident, so at ease with their own bodies. So congratulations, you’re great ! And sorry for my poor english, i’m a french fat girl ^^
By: Marie on January 25, 2009
at 8:13 pm
You are an inspiration! Today I’m feeling especially down on myself and looking on the web for some answers.
You radiate a noticeable self-confidence and your self-acceptance makes me realize that I can do it, too!
Thanks!
By: Amy on February 11, 2009
at 9:51 pm
You look fabulous!
And I’m pretty in love with your bathing suit!
I finally just worked up the nerve to get myself into a plain black bathing suit just to go in the pool and realised that I actually liked the way I looked in it. That felt great! The bikini comes next.
You are awesome, fat, and beautiful.
By: Jen on March 7, 2009
at 1:21 am
Youre not big i’m big but as my name says i’m proud believe in your self you culd be a model:)
By: proudofme13 on March 12, 2009
at 6:08 pm
oh and great posing anyone says anything mean im coming through this computuer jk lol but dont b mean
Sincerley,
Proudofme13:)
By: proudofme13 on March 12, 2009
at 6:10 pm
Sigh! We have so much in common!
You remind me of myself when I was a bit younger, well I am only 23
Um Miss McHotty pants when did you cut your hair? Fabulousity!
It is so cute I turned into a kitten for a while!
I would <3 to get to know you better! I am just learning about Fat Acceptance, Health at every size, and really truly exploring Fat & Feminism issues.
Honestly your bikini should be your official uniform, you rock it that amazingly!
You look so: strong, sensual, defiant, sweet, classy, playful, seductive, effortless… I could go on and on!
You make me want to put a tank top and shorts and run around in the backyard with the sprinkler on!
The effect of your photos on this blog are huge!
I feel this surge of confidence, hopefulness, and joy from looking at these photos and reading.
Are you a fan of Liza Dalby? Where in Japan would you visit if you could only visit one part?
By: Animadi on April 25, 2009
at 4:53 am
Heeeey. I must admit you are one of those persons that actually give a lot of courage to everyone.
I’m from Peru ^^ (sorry if my english is not good enough lol)
I loveee your posts and you look so shure about the things you do ..!
You give me courage a lot… really.
Thanks
By: Barbara on July 18, 2009
at 9:04 pm
you are a beautiful woman. Any guy who would not be pleased to be out on the town with you is nuts.
By: Fred Casper on September 3, 2009
at 4:52 pm
omg you are so confident, i wish i was more like you, and also im about the same size as you, but i have stretch marks, you are so lucky that you dont have any!
By: Kylie on September 3, 2009
at 10:19 pm
props for not being bashful
By: ahhh on October 19, 2009
at 5:20 pm