My Pear Shape will be the end of me.

[Stars in my Pocket]

So I'm a pear-shaped person. I hate it. I'm not like HUGE in my thighs, but I feel like even when I weigh 120lbs, it looks like I'm 135. I have to over-compensate by being really toned and losing a lot of fat.

I feel like I'm really not capable of having a "Jillian Michaels" body (insert a name of any other really toned person, actually) even though I work out and eat mostly right. I always have HUGE hips (can't change bone structure) and that kind of distorts what I should theoretically look like at my height and weight.

I'm wondering what shape you have, and how it affects you.  

[Lady Kayura]

I am also a pear. I've had birthing hips since I hit puberty. When I went away to school and gained weight, a lot of it settled right around there. I try to wear things that flaunt the curves of my hips. I've got an a** that was made for jeans. I like jeans that flaunt my curvy hips. So they're bigger than my bust? Oh well. I still have a smaller waist than both so I really like wearing tank tops that are long enough to cover over my hips. Empire waist sorts of clothing work nicely.  

[Gossy]

what's the name for the shape where you have a huge enormous fat stomach, no boobs and everything else looks kinda normal? Because that's what I have.... It's the worst. I guess it's kinda pear but I don't have any hips. It's just my stomach bulging in an unsightly manner. :/ That's the one part I can't lose weight in!  

[Stars in my Pocket]

I think apple is when you carry weight around your middle, pear is when it's lower-half like hips/thighs.

I think I just need to make better clothing choices. 3nodding  

[Tandahda]

What... Hourglass doesn't get a vote? I'm a tubby hourglass... but that is still my shape... ._.

I hate nothing more than empire waistlines because they fluff out and cover the best part of me (the part that goes inward in the center) and leaves my huge arms, bust and hips to get all the attention. I think they were a conspiracy of people thin enough to look good in everything to make popular a style that only looks good on people who are thin already...

But I hear tell from others who have a different body shape that they look great in it... so I'll leave off my conspiracy theory... for now.

Its a blessing, the only one I got from my mother amidst a host of faults, that I gain weight evenly and equally. I also lose it evenly and equally. Some faults are incredibly short fingers, (they get pudgy too when I'm overweight.) Bad ankles, short toes (bad balance) and one of my organs is leaning the wrong way.

This, the princess line really looks the best on me.
 

[Stars in my Pocket]

Whoops, sorry xD
I forgot hourglass, my bad. >__<

The princess cut is very cute, though!  

[.WayneZinok.]

I'm more hourglass than anything else, though my waist isn't as small as I'd like it to be, and I'd love for wider hips. I really like my body type, if not my body specifically. Once I lose the weight I want to, I am sure I'll be thrilled with the way I look. It's such a feminine shape.
Honestly though, I ADORE pear shaped women when they haven't totally let themselves go. It's my second favourite.  

[Euthanasia Phase]

I'm also pear-shaped, and it gets really annoying when I lose 10 pounds and a half inch off my hips. My size 12s will fit with another 35 pound loss, provided where the weight is carried hasn't shifted during college.
Although right now, the shape is more "potato" than anything, though the pear has made a slight comeback since weight loss started.  

[Ligand]

I'm an upside down triangle aka a strawberry. I'd kill to be a pear, hourglass, or rectangle. sad My shape always makes me feel less womanly since I don't really have much curviness.  

[Roslin]

A lot of people tell me I have an hour-glass shape, but technically my hips are a bit larger than my bust so I'm really a pear shape. I enjoy my shape but sometimes I feel like I'm never going to fit into those size 12 jeans I so crave to fit into.

I think all the shapes can be attractive if you know how to dress in a way that benefits your shape.  

[Tandahda]

Sadly most styles in stores are pretty much made for rectangle frames...  

[Munkers]

I thought I was an hourglass for a long time because I'm on the busty side and the boobs kind of balanced out the hips and butt. Now that I've been losing weight and learning more about how my body stores and loses fat, I've come to the conclusion that I'm a pear who just happens to have boobs.

I carry the bulk of my weight in my thighs which I really hate. I think that's going to be the absolute last place I lose anything. I actually seem to be losing my hips before my thighs. I could have lived with the hips how they were though. crying  

[freelance lover]

I'm slightly pear as well. I've really come to loath my thighs recently. I have very little belly fat, but my thighs just make me sad.

I guess I'm also a pear with boobs as well. I lost of ton of weight in the eighth grade, which almost all came from my stomach. Now I've been on a plateau for years, all stuck on my thighs.  

[CondomAtTheCrimeScene]

But according to who?
I'm an obese pear.
But I love my shape.

I'm 5'4 and 215 pounds.
By all conventional means, I am disgusting.  

[pinkcatminht]

i'm a pear as well. a pear with a BIG GHETTO BOOTY. O.o seriously, if it weren't for my butt i could seriously wear a size and a half smaller in jeans. no lie.