56 Women Share The Comments They Received About Their Bodies That They Didn't See Coming

In 7th grade a boy called me "chisel chin". I had never seen a sideways view of my face, but you can be sure I looked in the mirror very carefully that night. My chin is (or was, since that was decades ago) indeed a bit chisel-ish. But the thing was, I didn't think it was ugly. I don't know why it didn't bother me, because at that age everything did. However, I never forgot it, and I can still recall exactly where it happened.

"There is nothing beautiful about her. Maybe hair is ok".

My husband told me I had nice legs once 3 years ago and I still think about it.

A boy in high school told me I have “pancake hands”. Idk what that even means.

Went to pick out a graduation dress with my mom, I was gravitating towards a statement red dress and she told me that red didn’t look good on me. It took years for me to feel confident wearing red again.

Immediately after birth in the nincu the nurse was looking back and forth and baby and me. And said oh yea I guess he has weird ears like you. I never thought my ears were weird. What a strange thing to say to someone immediately after birth when holding baby for the first time.

There's a little circle bone in your wrist. In 7th grade, someone told me the reason I couldn't see mine is because I was fat.

I still look for that bone subconsciously.

I sent a pic to a guy friend years back of my dog that was snuggling with me. My arm was around him. My friend saw the arm and said it looked like it should be on a corpse.

My mother would say keep your weight down, you’ll get broad shoulders. After her menopause she started to put on some weght. Her shoulders are broader than mine.

I’m going to take this in a different direction but compliments on my hands (look and feel). It’s kind of an unusual compliment to get in general but particularly how often it comes from strangers.

A teacher once said “you’d be so pretty if you smiled more” in front of the whole class. I was 12, and still think about it sometimes.

"you look prettier with some weight", I've always been incredibly insecure and wanting to change things about how I look, this comment made me feel like no matter what I did or didn't do was good enough.

Been marveled over like an animal in a zoo when one of my friends in 5th grade was like "wow you have so much arm hair!" 😭 one of my first insecurities lol.

I was crawling/playing on the floor when I was 10 and my dad said, “Look, your belly hangs down to the floor!” I’ve hated my belly for 33 years because of that comment.

My family has told me I have nice full eyebrows, but once in 7th grade a girl looked at me and asked “oh did you have a shaving accident?” pointing at the end of my eyebrow. It has a slightly uneven dip as the hair thins out. I never noticed my eyebrows nor thought about shaving them until that point. She laughed thinking it was a silly mistake, not meaning any harm. I can’t look at my eyebrows the same anymore. I can never unsee it.

A drunk guy at a party in uni told me that it was a good thing I had a chubby face because it stopped me appearing anorexic. I've grown out of that late teen gangly phase but I learnt that my face is just the first place I show any weight gain. For my body to be in a healthly place, I have to accept the full face and slight double chin. Reality of a recessive chin. I've never like how my face looked since though, genuinely repulses me.