50 Facts About Female Bodies That Women Wish They Had Learned About As Teens

That your downstairs looks perfectly normal. It's organic and supposed to be what it is. Love yourself.

I wish someone would have told me how drastically having a baby would change my whole body, shape, size, all of it. My feet even grew a whole half size. And I have not been back there since.

Queefing is totally normal, if air goes in, air will come out. My first boyfriend told me to “never do that again”, that stuck with me for a looooong time and I was always so embarrassed when it’d happen.

That nothing is 'supposed' to look one certain way. Variety is normal and makes us unique.

That sometimes “mental health symptoms” are actually hormonal disorders. I was almost convinced I was bipolar until my OBGYN diagnosed me with PMDD and I got on a birth control that regulated my progesterone. It was like an instant fix.

Female pleasure. I had no idea until I was in college.

If your doctor tells you it’s “just anxiety” or “normal pain” get a second opinion. i ended up with chronic back pain from not pushing back on this conclusion.

That your body shape will change drastically in perimenopause, regardless of dietary habits.

That your [chest] will change shape, size, consistancy/texture, and sag several times throughout your life.

Right before I turned 30, they just completely changed and I had no idea what was happening.

HORMONE 👏 CHANGES 👏 HAPPEN 👏 IN 👏 YOUR 👏 THIRTIES 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏.

You need to eat. You are gonna have people equate your worth with your weight.

You need to give your body nutrients, and you need to eat protein and fruit. It doesn't matter if it's fashionable to be super thin, or be on ozempic, or take stackers and phenphen, or barf up lunch, or cut calories to nothing, or be a smol girl or mpdg.

Men-- boyfriends, alpha males, fathers, husbands, pastors, influencers, fashion designers are trying to make you starve yourself so you are not nourishing your brain enough to detect their manipulation of you.

Companies are trying to instill in you a dissatisfaction with your body that makes you consume, consume, consume.

You are okay. Your human body deserves nourishment. You are dulling your sharpness, your vitality, your mind.

If your mind is screaming to Get Away, whatever your Get Away is, start working on your plan to Get Away. You got this.

Sounds obvious but… your body is going to go through a lot of changes. Try to love yourself through every part of it, care for yourself as best as you can, and allow grace. It’s ok if you’re not the size you were a decade ago.

I wish someone just had the talk with me. I come from a traditional South Asian family and had NO IDEA WHAT A PERIOD WAS. It's called bamari which translates into the sickness.

I was handed the biggest pad by my grandma and was told to wear them and stay away from boys. Puberty was the worst time of my life and I wish someone just had a conversation with me 😆.

You’re only supposed to lose about 5-80 ml of blood during your period! Having to dump out your menstrual cup multiple times a day is WAY too much! (I turned out to have endometriosis and bleed triple the usual amount.).

Rather the opposite: I wish they **hadn't** called all those actresses and singers 'fat' (90s-00s).

The 4 phases of the menstrual cycle and how it affects your mood, appetite, and even appearance. Being in tune with the phases of my cycles has helped me live a better life.

Labia comes in different sizes. I seriously thought something was wrong with me because mine were/are large.

To start strengthening your pelvic floors - not wait to be pregnant to be told that.

That guys love the wobbly bits so stop stressing about it.

That our hormones are constantly changing. I was taught that we all go through puberty and then that’s it until we hit menopause. My acne was horrific as a teen and everyone promised me it would stop and here I am at 35 with acne still and new hormonal changes.