HomeI had just joined a group on facebook for curvy/full figured women and looked at the pictures. I was glad they showed curvy women at different sizes, small and large alike, and then I started skimming through the comments. In many of the pictures showing thinner women, people were complaining about how they weren't curvy enough or saying that they were curvy but not full figured. One person said to be full figured you had to be 160 pounds or more. I was always under the impression that they meant basically the same thing and you could be both at any weight. How does everyone here define them, and do you think there's a difference between being curvy and being full figured?
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Is there a difference between full figured and curvy?
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Re: Is there a difference between full figured and curvy?
by RedBedroom Thu Jul 08, 2010 5:56 pm
I have always taken them to mean about the same thing, but "curvy" is used more for women who don't have an extreme amout of excess weight. I don't think it is correct to call an obese woman "curvy", but "full figured" could be used in that instance.
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by Nystyle709 Thu Jul 08, 2010 9:53 pm
^ I agree. But then, I don't think you can call an obese woman "full figured". Full figured and curvy to me both involves proportion. You have small curvy women who are proportioned and larger women who are the same way. I think that's the most important part.
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by Marc™ Thu Jul 08, 2010 10:37 pm
All I know is that I've known a number of full figured and/or obese women who try to play that "I'm curvy" or "I'm thick" card. I don't want to be insensitive, but sometimes I just be dying to tell them that it's a little bit more extreme than that baby girl.
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Re: Is there a difference between full figured and curvy?
by Nystyle709 Fri Jul 09, 2010 12:52 pm
Marc wrote:All I know is that I've known a number of full figured and/or obese women who try to play that "I'm curvy" or "I'm thick" card. I don't want to be insensitive, but sometimes I just be dying to tell them that it's a little bit more extreme than that baby girl.
Yeah, I have too. It's almost like you can't even call someone thick or curvy because then you're going to get a chick who is 300 lbs, extremely badly built saying the same thing because someone gives a girl who isn't necessarily a size 6 a compliment about her body and she think she has some leeway.
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Re: Is there a difference between full figured and curvy?
by RiteDiva Sat Jul 10, 2010 4:09 am
You all pretty much echo my own thoughts. It rung a bit bizarre to me that in some people's minds "being curvy" meant having so many extra pounds. As if someone who is 130 lbs. couldn't be shapely! If your frame is naturally oval, then the curves will be present almost regardless of where you weigh in. This group primarily consisted of a black following, and unfortunately I noticed that we as a community (because so many of us are plus-sized) tend to be so shell shocked over "conventional beauty" that we become perhaps too permissive of extra pounds to the point where we color our perception of what it means to be "curvy" versus overweight.
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by Marc™ Sat Jul 10, 2010 7:44 am
Nystyle709 wrote:Yeah, I have too. It's almost like you can't even call someone thick or curvy because then you're going to get a chick who is 300 lbs, extremely badly built saying the same thing because someone gives a girl who isn't necessarily a size 6 a compliment about her body and she think she has some leeway.
Exactly. Which makes meeting females blindly a complete roll of the dice. The thing I eventually learned is that most in-shape women with curves usually won't describe themselves as "curvy"....and especially not "thick." They'll just give their measurements and that's it. Use your imagination. Big gals wanna camouflage with terms like "thick" and "curvy," while hoping that you're naive enough to confuse those terms with 20 lbs. overweight. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a hater of fat....or plus-sized....women, but don't try and get cute and dilute terminology.
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Re: Is there a difference between full figured and curvy?
by Marc™ Sat Jul 10, 2010 7:49 am
RiteDiva wrote:You all pretty much echo my own thoughts. It rung a bit bizarre to me that in some people's minds "being curvy" meant having so many extra pounds. As if someone who is 130 lbs. couldn't be shapely! If your frame is naturally oval, then the curves will be present almost regardless of where you weigh in. This group primarily consisted of a black following, and unfortunately I noticed that we as a community (because so many of us are plus-sized) tend to be so shell shocked over "conventional beauty" that we become perhaps too permissive of extra pounds to the point where we color our perception of what it means to be "curvy" versus overweight.
Black folks use not conforming to these standards as an excuse to justify and play down hard truths about the consequences of eating junk. Don't pretend that if you're 5'2 and weigh 170 lbs. that you're not overweight....and don't try and pretend that losing 30 lbs. pounds would be conforming to "white standards of beauty." There is a such thing as height/weight proportion. Curves are part of bone structure, they don't require a 36" waist.
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Re: Is there a difference between full figured and curvy?
by Nystyle709 Sat Jul 10, 2010 10:36 am
RiteDiva wrote:You all pretty much echo my own thoughts. It rung a bit bizarre to me that in some people's minds "being curvy" meant having so many extra pounds. As if someone who is 130 lbs. couldn't be shapely! If your frame is naturally oval, then the curves will be present almost regardless of where you weigh in. This group primarily consisted of a black following, and unfortunately I noticed that we as a community (because so many of us are plus-sized) tend to be so shell shocked over "conventional beauty" that we become perhaps too permissive of extra pounds to the point where we color our perception of what it means to be "curvy" versus overweight.
I think initially, we were on to something by "embracing" our stature and not "conforming" to a eurocentric stamp of approval because really, black women are built differently. A few extra pounds doesn't necessarily hurt us aesthetically....I don't mean too sound bigoted or anything, but have you noticed that you will see a plus sized black or latino woman who will actually look good but you hardly see a white woman who is the same way? So our people put that on a pedestal....now you got all these Deelisheses and Buffie the Bodies that we glorify in magazines and videos and since they aren't the typical size 6.....any other chick who isn't thinks she can be down too. Forgetting that her gut is overlapping her belt, her ass maybe huge, but it's extremely dented and jiggly, boobs sagging and now they got her walking around here calling herself "thick". So basically because of that, the line is just blurred in our community. And now you got women of other races subscribing to the same thing because they think that no matter what size you are, all a black man wants is a fat ass. Bottom line: we need to get healthier. You don't have to be a size 6 but you HAVE to be proportioned. Proportion is key.
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