looks affecting life, further adventures of the well endowed

[Starling]

The buxom Starling returns, rather amazed at the number of responses her
throw-away post garnered
-- and, btw, now I know I'm truly at home on the lists...Tabuli of the
splendifirous acronyms has comment on a post of mine...i have arrived
::blushing grin::

hrm.  Looks affecting life...
Well, outside of the clothing arena, which Tabuli wisely specified, not
really.  I tend towards the pudgier side of "normal"  but that's certainly
survivable (and would probably be fixable if I cut back on the Chocolate
Frogs...).  Of course, I can say that now.  All through high school, I was
incredibly sensitive about my looks -- a bit chubby, glasses, mousy thin
stick-straight brownish hair, and absolutely no fashion sense whatsoever.  I
dreaded the Homecoming dance, every year, no matter how hard I tried, my
makeup ended up melted around my chin by the time they started playing Donna
Summers.  ::shrug::
So after graduation I'd had enough -- dragged my mom out and insisted we get
some proper clothes and not just what was on the clearance rack at Sears (my
mom has only four, not seven, but she is very much a Mrs. Weasley in her own
way.), I shushed my inner feminist and bought a few issues of Seventeen (for
the makeup tips -- and really, two or three is all you need, any more and
they start repeating themselves) and got a haircut.  And new glasses.  And
went off to college chanting my new mantra:  "Nobody here knows you so just
smile and think beautiful...nobody here knows you..."
Oddly enough, it's worked, for the most part.  I still have occasional
stress moments about my arms, I tend to avoid tank tops in public (pity my
flatmates, who don't get such courtsey <g>), and there is no way you will
catch me in Lycra.  But those are all rather basic things -- you'd think I'd
have learned earlier ::shrugs::

However, this has not caused me to become a sorority chick (with all of the
worst possible implications -- back when I lived in the dorms, we referred
to sorority girls as "pincusions."  Catty, but true, on this campus) or quit
school to model -- whatever.  I am clean, neat and presentable.  As long as
my hair is not in my eyes, my glasses and clothes are clean, and I don't
smell -- much --  it's all good.  But then, everything I've done "makeover"
wise wasn't really a makeover as much as just working with what's there.

Moving on...
Someone (I'd say who but I'm too lazy to flip thru the digest to see)
mentioned that reductive surgery is actually the more common of surgeries
going on, breastwise, nowadays.  Honestly, I'm not surprised.  If only to
make it easier to go shopping! :-p.   Seriously, though, the thought has
crossed my mind on more than one occasion, and my doctor told me I might
want to consider it one I'm older, just to get the strain off my lower back
and shoulders, which complain mightily after a long day -- there, Tabuli,
there's a reason to love your A cups.  No straps digging into your
shoulders.  I actually have permanent ridges there, no joke!
But surgery will never happen, for one very simple reason.  I have carried
these things around for nearly 22 years.  Hopefully, I'll be hauling them
around for at least thrice again that.  And since I have them, they will be
used!  If I have to have breasts, then by golly, my kids are gonna be breast
fed! ::nods decisivly::  I've heard from several places that reduction
surgery will interefere with mammary functions.  Kiss that option goodbye.

Anyway...enough babbling.  More coffee for me, or my nervous system will go
on strike.  My thanks to everyone who chimed up with suggestions on where to
acquire fitting lingerie -- I have a list now, and credit card permitting,
they will *all* be getting a visit, sooner or later :-)

Abbie, who has been inspired enough to risk the mall this afternoon, in
hopes of finding something to wear to that wedding she's so psyched about
starling823 at yahoo.com
"Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell
at the merpeople to give back whatever they've nicked and see if they chuck
it out.  Best you can do, mate."
 -Ron, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire


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