Ladies, do you sport a "muffin top?"

[NikiM20]

I have a muffin top but only I see it. Always have a shirt that covers it.

I was thinking the same thing

 

[NikiM20]

With all the muffin tops and whale tails, I'm glad that I'm nearsighted.

And, for the record, I have a muffin top. Only on guys it's called Dunlop's Disease. My belly dun lops over my belt. I suppose that may be due in part to the fact that my waist size is 40", but I can wear a 38 Low.

Can anyone say TMI???

Ok i'll bite whats a whale tail?

 

[lindakmonty]

No muffin top... think it looks nasty and I prefer to cover myself. No one but dh needs to see what I have

 

[cryssi]

blech...

My low rise pants sit loosely on my hips (amazing considering that I am a pear). If I gain weight or am bloated and have spillage, I certainly hope that I am wearing a long shirt. That said, I fear that I am sporting a muffin top today b/c I'm wearing a new skirt with elastic band and my top is a tad too short LOL I'm constantly pulling my shirt down!

 

[musclecar_72]

Ok i'll bite whats a whale tail?

Thong protruding out of the top of one's low rise pants. I'm a fan of this on certain people, others not so big a fan!

 

[Robinrs]

I had never heard this term until last week on a thread about trends we'd like to see disappear...

I rode Atlanta's mass transit this week and YIKES Muffin Top City!!

Don't these people look in a mirror before they leave home? It looks DISGUSTING!!! I especially hate seeing women who are thin but have former pregnancy loose skin hanging around... we DO NOT NEED TO SEE THAT!!!

Ugh... vent over....

 

[Blondie]

I think with every pair of low rise jeans a full length mirror should be included in the sale! Maybe that will make people think twice before leaving the house.

Then again....maybe not!

 

[NeverlandClub23]

with the weight I have put on it would be more like loaves, not muffins hanging out. Nope my muffin hanging days are over.

 

[monarchsfan16]

No way
There is some fat on me, including around my waist, but I wear clothes big enough so that I don't have a muffin top. I hate having skin exposed

 

[ChrisnSteph]

Plastic surgery (and a little exercise) has helped reduce my "muffin top".

 

[Chattyaholic]

I definitely would sport a "muffin top" if I wore tight low-rise jeans and a belly top but I wouldn't be caught dead in clothes like that!!! I would be so embarrassed!!

I love "people watching" and I am constantly amazed at the way some people dress and just don't care about the flab that's hanging out. Women way bigger than me wearing tube tops/belly shirts, tight jeans, short shorts, etc. I just don't understand how they can even think they look good!!

 

[PrincessKitty1]

I'm too old to wear such a thing, but I wore plenty of hiphugger jeans and cropped tops (and platform shoes, and no br@, and long dangly earrings, etc., etc. --you get the picture! ) back when I was a teenager in the 1970s.

Whenever I feel myself starting to get ever-so-slightly judgmental about what other people are wearing, I have to stop and remind myself how I dressed in my teens and early 20s!

I think muffin tops are just fine (BTW I don't think those young women in the photos have muffin tops). I love it that women feel comfortable showing a little skin that isn't dieted and exercised to perfection. I hate all the societal pressure to be skinny and perfect. Long live muffin tops!

 

[princess pooh]

I wear a lot of low-rise pants so I check carefully for muffin-top before I leave the house. My pants are all big enough that they don't cut into me. I also like wearing longer t-shirts so nothing pops out.

 

[punkin]

I love it that women feel comfortable showing a little skin that isn't dieted and exercised to perfection. I hate all the societal pressure to be skinny and perfect. Long live muffin tops!

I will second that. I will also admit that I sport a muffin top and am proud.

 

[MOMTOMOOTOO]

Good Lord NO!!! I own a mirror and wouldn't be caught dead with a muffin top.

I'm with you Lori, thankfully they are not magic mirrors.

 

[disykat]

I actually notice them more on thin people than I do on not so thin people. I always think "why would a thin person want to look fat?".

My whole life, I've tried to look thinner than I am. The trend now seems to be the reverse of this.

 

[Stacerita]

When I see someone sporting a muffin top, all I can think of is that someone dropped the ball. "Who was supposed to be on roll patrol?"

 

[helenabear]

I think muffin tops are just fine (BTW I don't think those young women in the photos have muffin tops). I love it that women feel comfortable showing a little skin that isn't dieted and exercised to perfection. I hate all the societal pressure to be skinny and perfect. Long live muffin tops!

I love it when women feel comfortable showing a little skin as well. In fact, I don't mind if now and then in the right circumstances that I show skin.

However... wearing pants that are clearly too small/tight and having your fat hanging out over the side is not sexy and is not something I want to see.

I don't care who you are, it is disgusting and not right to do.

All muffin tops are, are girls who cannot wear the right sized pants. If they are a size 10 they wear an 8 or a 6. They squeeze their body into something that is not meant for them and it looks terrible!!!!! It actually makes their bodies look worse than they are.

So I am all for showing skin, but please, don't show me fat! It's repulsive!!!!! Just buy the right damn size and THEN show your skin PLEASE!!!!!!!

 

[sunlver]

I have not read all replies yet. BUT... being overweight myself, I wouldnt be caught dead in the styles of today. I see so many of these overweight girls(middle school/ highschool age)with the tight jeans and the bellies hanging out. I do not think this is flattering, and it is hard to believe they think they look ok to wear that out in public. I remember when I was in highschool, everybody wore t-shirts and jeans, regular old jeans. You know the kind, Levi's , the gap, LEE etc...they came up where they should, tshirts tucked in. No belly flab hanging out when I was growing up. Looking at styles of yesteryear you could be overweight and wear jeans and a tshirt and not look hideous like todays styles.

 

[bekkiz]

Does anyone else find it somewhat depressing when women can't help but degrade other women? What exactly do you chatty cathy's feel that you're accomplishing by calling the fashion choices other women make "disgusting?"

I suppose I could say similar things about parenting choices, marriage choice, career choices etc, but as a woman, teacher and future parent, I can only try to encourage all women to stop being so gosh darned <word thay rhymes with witchy>.

Just stop. Think about where this anger and vengefulness comes from. For most people (including myself--I'm not perfect either in this arena, but I am trying to change), it stems from my own deep-seeded self-confidence issues.

So instead of making fun of some girl, or calling her names, why don't you try figuring out what about yourself makes you so angry, and change that?

I spend far too much of my day seeing eye-rolling from teenage girls about their classmates etc...I'm not sure I can take too much more of it on the Dis!
<getting off of soapbox now>