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MissAdventure Thu 28-Feb-19 15:00:10

Where do you sit on the scale of being totally at ease with being naked, or covering up, even in front of your partner/children/in-laws?

TerryM Fri 01-Mar-19 09:50:28

Husband 10
Very close friends 10
Son 4
DIL 0
Grandchild too little lol.

Shortlegs Fri 01-Mar-19 09:50:32

I tend not to do it in public.

Pollyanna2 Fri 01-Mar-19 09:53:41

I prefer to keep myself to myself these days - just feels more comfortable...smile

Diggingdoris Fri 01-Mar-19 09:58:58

I used to be ok with family seeing me in undies/swimwear until about ten years ago. Now with too much weight and saggy wobbly bits I certainly wouldn't. I've also now got seborrheic keratosis patches which look disgusting so the doctor is the only person looking at my body from now on.

lovebeigecardigans1955 Fri 01-Mar-19 09:59:58

I see my naked form in the bathroom mirror and wonder what happened to that slim young slip of a gal I used to be. It's been replaced by a tubbyguts so I wouldn't go in for showing my bits and pieces unless I had to show a doctor! Swimsuits were given away to charity years ago.
I'm no longer officially overweight but the shape, well it's not very shapely. Better kept hidden. OTOH this is what a real body looks like.

trisher Fri 01-Mar-19 10:01:09

Least seen soonest mended (or something to that effect)!

EllanVannin Fri 01-Mar-19 10:01:56

No chance !

gillyknits Fri 01-Mar-19 10:02:33

Not any more. Wouldn’t want to frighten the horses!
Just debating what to wear at the pool on holiday. I have some lovely tankinis but it’s my legs that look so bad. Bruised and veins. I love to swim so I suppose it’ll be a long sarong to the edge of the pool and then discreet sliding into the water.

MissAdventure Fri 01-Mar-19 10:03:34

Years ago I went on a holiday with my job, which involved taking people swimming.
I had to ask my boss to please not make me do it.
blush

WendyBT Fri 01-Mar-19 10:04:31

No-one. Ever. Never. End of!

annodomini Fri 01-Mar-19 10:04:50

Even when I was younger and more shapely, I didn't have sufficient confidence even to go topless at the beach. Now I fear the sight of myself in the mirror glass of the showers in my DS2's house! Reubensesque, what, me?

annab275 Fri 01-Mar-19 10:11:52

minus 10 - can't even bear to see myself naked!

Annaram1 Fri 01-Mar-19 10:17:58

Once you get to be 70 just be glad to have got to that age and don't think about what you were like 50 years ago.

Daisyboots Fri 01-Mar-19 10:18:27

My husband 10
My family 0
Doctors maybe 6
I went away for a few days with my daughter but we didnt strip off in front of each other. My son who is visiting at the moment knocked at my bedroom door and asked if I was decent before coming in this morning.
I went for a gynaecological ecogram yesterday and thought it would be like a baby scan but it was far more intimate than that but nothing was on show at any time unlike a smear test.

henetha Fri 01-Mar-19 10:22:08

Zero! I don't like my body at all and am certain no-one else would either.

Helen2806 Fri 01-Mar-19 10:27:44

I was changing after swimming with my 5 year old granddaughter. She said nana your bottom is so shaky and you have the biggest pants here!
I am a size 12 ????

MissAdventure Fri 01-Mar-19 10:30:17

I read something on here about someone's grandchild running screaming "nana's bumbum!" having seen nana bending over. smile

MaryXYX Fri 01-Mar-19 10:39:53

I'm a lot more comfortable than I used to be. When I was married - partner 10. Anyone else (apart from necessary for doctor) possibly 1 or 2. This morning I went swimming, and coming out of the pool I went into the communal (for females!) shower and took my bikini off to rinse it, and me.

Craftycat Fri 01-Mar-19 10:41:05

Husband - 10
Doctor - 10
Anyone else -1
I am happy to strip off on the beach on holiday though- not naked but very small tankini which I can pull up so tummy gets brown
I stopped going topless at 60.

1inamillion Fri 01-Mar-19 10:44:03

DH-10
Doctor-5
Not overweight but don't like looking in the mirror so much these days. Never had a flat stomach even before having two children.

pen50 Fri 01-Mar-19 10:45:00

Much more comfortable with being naked now that I'm a size 12 rather than the size 18 I was three years ago! Communal changing rooms 6/10, partner 10/10, doctor 7/10, everyone else 1/10.

paddyann Fri 01-Mar-19 10:46:49

I happily wander around the house in my knickers ,usually when just OH and I .My GD's still come in to chat when I'm in the bath and thats fine ,my own kids did it too.They stop when they're ready to .I went through a phase of stopping 9 year old coming in as she was quite passremarkable about things .However thats topped the day she told me her OTHER granpa had a much bigger tummy then me and he tucks it in his pants...and sometimes it doesn't all fit

MissAdventure Fri 01-Mar-19 10:48:00

grin paddy

Megs36 Fri 01-Mar-19 10:53:16

Interesting post! I have never liked the idea of being naked in front of anyone including my dear husband of 58 years ????However spent a night in hospital a few weeks ago after a stroke and the night nurse asked me if I'd like to have a shower in the morning and helped me strip off and wash, when I thought about it later I was really SURPRISED I had done that, still wondering....

Legs55 Fri 01-Mar-19 10:59:48

When DH was alive 10

Doctor/Medical Staff 10 male/female they've seen it all before

DD/DiL 9

DGS1 1

Anybody else 0 don't want to scar them for life don't frighten the horses. Years ago I didn't care but was a slim size 12hmm