accept it, ur a rectangle.
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- čas přidán 28. 10. 2023
- attn: hailey bieber, dua lipa & kylie jenner. not everyone is made to have an hourglass figure. some of us are pears (me), triangles or apples. and despite the fact that we're been made to think that the only body shape that is worthy is the hourglass, that couldn't be more wrong. sadly, those with a rectangle body shape often feel pressure to look more curvy. to conform to the 'slim thick' influencer body by editing their photos for social media and even more dramatically - plastic surgery such as b00b jobs and BBLs to try and appear more hourglass. but rectangles are perfection. in the 90s, most of the supermodels had the rectangle body shape. it was body goals. athletic, glamorous, strong. dont hate yourself just because the beauty standards tell you to. remember - they change. you don't have to.
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It's interesting how trends change. I was a curvy hourglass back when heroine chic was all the rage. Being curvy was the absolute worst thing to be. There was nothing I could do about having hips, a butt and everything else that went with it. But I was called fat.
could not relate more
Same here. It took some time to like my body. I am an hourglass, wide hips, thinner waist, bigger breasts and all. When I was growing up during the early 2010s, my body shape was not ‘in’, was too provocative and got me a lot of unwanted attention from older men - no matter what I wore. I even went out of my way to hide my body shape, feeling ashamed. And shopping for clothes that fit well was a nightmare. That is the one thing I appreciate in this fake-boobs-and-butts trend. I was glad when I could finally find clothes that fit me better much more easily.
Grass is always greener on the other side. I'm very thin and lean with an athletic build and I've always been called anorexic and told I need more curves and fat on my body to be more attractive. While you have wished to be more like me, I've dreamt of being more like you. I've been called less of a woman because I miss features you have.
@@tvokalovai happen to be blessed with the body my mom gave me, an hourglass figure, im in love w the curves on my waist, my hip dips, and everything about my body. but hourglass or not, rectangular, your body is still beautiful no matter what these “beauty trends” say.
@@tvokalovaughhrhhhvomit😵at the OLDER " men" (and anyone else) for treating you that way because of the effing body you have.
It’s crazy how being skinny is not even enough anymore to be considered hot. You also have to be a certain shape. Annoying.
That's what I've been saying.
Being skinny was never enough. Body shapes have always been seen as trends through different decades.
Same. I hate that it only gets worse. At first you could lose weight and fit the standard a little better now that’s not enough. You have to have a huge ass and tits even if you’re thinner, it doesn’t matter, you need surgery. I almost wish it stayed how it was and I would just be fat now i have to worry about somehow growing huge hips.
not in my experience. i have to swat men away from me all the time. i am a skinny retangle and men love it.
@@nitely2345and what will you have all this extra width added to the upper top of you and then the lower hip part of you then your head would look too small. I don't know how these girls get all this additional fat packed on them and their head doesn't look too small.
Interestingly I think pear shapes are also a trend now. As long as you have a tiny waist, big hips and butt, you meet the beauty standard. If you’re anyone else, too bad haha
Yeah same
Agreed, butts have 100% superceded boobs at this point
you should get off social media. no one in real life thinks this way
I noticed that, small boobs big waist and butt.
@BriefcaseWanker but almost everybody in real life is on social media. That's the reality we live in where things we see on social media have to apply to real life even if it's NOT TRUE or realistic.
As a teen girl who has a rectangle bodyshape, I really thank you for making this video and talking about this topic because that made me have a lot of lack in my confidence and self love and feel sooo insecure to the point that I developed an eating disorder. Thank you Stephanie for making the most realistic powerful videos
I hope you're doing better now!
Your time will come , please love yourself now because you will regret it when you get to my age , 54 , and realise how blessed you were. Sending love and hugs from one beautiful woman to another ❤️ ♥️
I feel like it's become more extreme, and what people think of on the internet as an "hourglass," is actually a pear, and people who are hourglasses are even getting told that they look rectangular.
Pear here as well but I definitely don't hate it :D @@user-gt7iy9zn3k
Sooo true. I’m an hourglass with big boobs and a big butt/hip area. I have a waist that goes in very prominently and have been told I’m not hourglass because I don’t have gigantic hips.
Right there's plenty of pictures of Kylie pre surgery where her waist is not the same width as her shoulders and hips. It's not an extreme hourglass but it's an hourglass, a petite one if you will. I think a true rectangle is pretty rare I don't see it much. You might have one due to how you carry fat but when getting around and below 20% body fat when it's actually your bone structure and muscle placement I don't think it's that common.
@@raeechil depending on your body fat distribution. some have the hips and chest as their primary location for body fat so as they get leaner they become more rectangular.
@@mags2847In reality many true hourglass women also have bigger shoulders because in order to have a big bust you need to have bigger shoulders and this might make the hips appear smaller.
I for example am a pear but my hips aren't that big it's just that my waist is small and I also have narrow shoulders and that gives the impression that my hips are wider than they actually are.
It really is insane how our bodies are treated like a trend…. Men do not have that* pressure
No, but they have the pressure of a muscular physique, which takes work and dedication to keep up. not as bad as women mind but still just as bad if you ask me.
Men definitely have that pressure too. It's just is a bit less prevalent and their trends take longer to change. Also theirs are usually not as much dictated by women or for women's pleasure as the other way around. It's often actually for other men.
Tell any guy under 6’1 that. Tell any guy who isn’t insanely muscular. It’s not exactly the same as women’s experience but men DO experience it
Oh they do too but it is not talked about
I disagree hard. Men try to have sex with fat girls, tall girls, short girls, literally any girl under the sun can make a tinder profile and get flooded with messages from men wanting to meet them.
Meanwhile women are *extremely* picky - eg about height.. which men basically really cannot change
This video resonated with me as someone with an ‘inverted triangle’. I’m slim, so in theory I have the common supermodel shape, but I feel like irl that means nothing… Some days I look at myself and all I see is shoulders, and I envy other women I see with curvaceous hips 😓 I’ve been trying to focus more on what my body can do, rather than what it looks like, but it’s a journey….
hey fellow inverted triangle :) i ve been told i look like man because of my wide shoulders. well, i cant just cut off those joints =D so in the end, nothing to be worry about. thank you for commenting, so I know now I m not alone.
French here. This is what French inverted triangles tend to do: they forsake the frilly girly and go for the masculine : straight dress shirts, slim, straight jeans, blazers, straight sweaters. I do not know how to explain it but let’s say that thin feminine bones poking out at the wrist and the ankles are enough as well as a deep but discreet decolleté (ie shirt is deeply unbutonned but hangs straight so the result is discreet). The overall feeling is not that of a tottering frilly female (this is exagerated to put my point across) but of a strong athletic capable female (again exagerated). And it should be coherent with hair, makeup, perfume, accessories, textures. The final result is under the radar sexy.
Then there is me , pear shaped . Wanting big shoulders .
A quote from the movie "Cleo from 5 to 7" really helped me with this. "My body makes me happy, not proud." It doesn't matter if people covet or envy my body. What matters is that my body allows me to enjoy life.
Oof. I feel you, girl. Same here. I had a toxic ex boyfriend that used to make fun of my shoulders all of the time (called them “manly”). It took me YEARS to scratch that harmful insult out of my head
I’m an hourglass and have had nothing but shit from people, over the years, about what “isn’t good enough” about it. Trust me - you can’t win. I see this part of society/the media as being in a narcissistic relationship: you will never be good enough, and even when you “tick all the boxes”, they’ll just make up something new to make you feel not good enough about. It’s a dead end cycle and you will always lose. Only advice I could give (and this takes years of practice and patience) is to decide for yourself how you feel about your body and to live life on your own terms. Don’t waste your precious heart chasing something that will just be labelled as “not good enough” in a few years’ time. Insecure people will tear you down, and so will an insecure society. Try not to fall for this bullshit ❤️.
They were jealous of your hourglass.
It’s all in the name of making more money. The beauty industry would go out of business if we all felt beautiful and secure about ourselves without surgery, makeup, filters, etc. So they make sure to tell us we’re ugly if we don’t look a certain way. They end up brainwashing not only women but men in the process.
Thats so true! I received hate for my cellulite, saddlebags or lower stomach...
EXACTLY
@@rubyrubia9090 I doubt that. 😒
I’d rather be a happy healthy lil rectangle than botched tbh
Yes, facts!!!
Too reallll !!!
don't worry. men and women love skinny women no matter what insta tells you. retangular? don't worry as long as you are skinny and attractive.
@@user-ku8ef6qz7uIs..that sarcasm I detected?
Same, well said!👏😊
It is so incredibly refreshing to see women with different body types. My body type is like “curvy rectangle” -My butt is naturally curvy but my waist is not naturally tiny. I never see people like me in the media! Very few of us women have perfect hourglass figures, I would think
Yep I'm a plump pear and never see my body type as a trend lol :P but I don't mind, this is the body my momma gave me and I'm gonna rock it.
I have the same body type you described too! I love my bubble butt but unfortunately our muscles and fat are too prominent on our waist area and I've always hated that. I've been learning to accept it and work with it. Fortunately, we as rectangles can rock a muscular body and seems to come natural when we work out ❤
I’m a slim rectangle with a slight hourglass shape . I love it because I love the 90s fashion era and can wear it well.
Heyyooo!! Same here!! Pretty rectangular but with a booty! Cheers to accepting and loving our shape ❤️
my mom has that body type and she hates it but i dont know why, she looks so pretty it’s genuinely such a pretty shape, no waistline and wide hips
I needed this! Thank you! I never see my body type represented in the media and it feels so refreshing to finally watch something like that on CZcams! ❤ let’s rock the rectangle!
This message is for some of you. The Kardashians didn't do shit to you. They are random women that did plastic surgery and you're insecure and looking for a scapegoat. They are not the cause of your insecurity. I'm writing this because I noticed it has become an 'in' thing to spew hate at them. Plastic surgery isn't the norm but it's their choice and they didn't ask you to feel the way you do about not looking like them. And if you don't like some of their dishonesty 'scandals', they are not the first people to lie and you don't hate everyone you know that has lied. You're just looking for a 'proper' reason to hate them and even that resson isn't logical. I've been where you are, a long time ago, javing strong negative feelings towards some people the media or many others seem to hate. One day, I asked myself why. It's a road that doesn't make sense to me anymore.
I read an article that measured 4000 women. It said that like 46% of those women were rectangle shape and less than 15% were hourglass.
But pear is usually the most common shape a female body is reduced to. I'm guessing it's not an accurate sample of body types?
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@@wawis231I think this very much depends on the country. For example I'm a Mediterranean woman (Greek to be specific) and here the most common body type is pear: smaller shoulders and breasts with wide hips and thicker legs and bigger butts with a shorter stature.
I think that this body type is the most common for southern women/ warmer climates like the Mediterranean, the middle east and maybe some parts of Africa too.
However northern European women tend to have either a rectangular shape or an inverted triangle shape as they are taller with wider shoulders and/or bigger busts and narrow hips with long thin legs. And then east asian women tend to be petite and more rectangular in shape with thin limbs.
So, the rectangular shape might be the most common shape if we count all countries
@@DMp-xp6mj Exactly what I thought. I'm Brazilian and when I go out I see women who have wide hips and big butts all the time. It's so common here. I for example I'm slim but my hips are wide and my waist is very small. I also noticed the same thing about women from those parts of Europe you mentioned and about Asian women. I often wonder if it was the warmer climates the made we gain weight at the hips.
@@wawis231 It wasn't a diverse study. It was basically just college age girls in one state. It was probably just to make them stop feeling bad about themselves. I feel like pear is more common in women who have had kids or are over 30. But yeah I can see pear being common overall in a proper study.
I hate how beauty standards automatically make people think everyone should fit into them. Back in summer I was at the beach, and a guy started flirting with me, after sometime we were talking about us, our past, etc.
THIS BOY told me how every girl he flirted with had a big butt and small waist (a bbl), how they were older than him (I am 5 years younger), how they had big boobs, etc etc. And then he proceeds to tell me how he was disappointed I did not fit those standards 💀💀💀💀💀 like honey why did you approach me then? He was like “you don’t have a nice body, wish you did tho”
Keep in mind that up to this day I’m proud of my body, I managed to lose weight and fight anorexia, Im eating healthy and exercising, I have some muscle going on and a booty, but definitely not a BBL Body, that’s not possible, and my rib age is not small, and my torso is short (like Hailey Bieber’s) so therefore I can’t have a small waist. But I swear the audacity 💀
And what I hate the most, people think those type of bodies can be achieved by exercising and dieting. No honey, you can only achieve a BBL body shape by going a procedure
It’s just so disrespectful. I’ ve big butt ( naturally) and when I was young , it wasn’t the trend at all. People and boys laught at ´fat ass’. So, I’ m sure this boy 15 years ago was disrespectful with the girls who have ( big butt and tiny waist …). He just totally dumb. It’s better to skype him.
Gosh! Are American men this rude?? I'm Brazilian though
I got angry just from reading what he said
My jaw is still on the ground after reading this. What a dumb*ss. I’m so sorry you had to deal with that. It’s so frustrating that guys don’t understand that the BBL shapes are achieved via surgery. Similarly, I’ve heard men say they like women who don’t wear makeup but their examples are women who are clearly wearing makeup, just a strategic/“no makeup” look or are online using a filter. We all have this knowledge but they still don’t, and the standards get perpetuated. Stephanie’s videos need to be mandatory viewing for high schools lol for both boys and girls.
Girl same here! If I had a dime for how many times I've heard men pontificate about how having an hour glass figure is a good sign of fertility and have a slender long flat figure means less fertility blah blah. 🙄 and then after developing binge eating I'm then told I'm skinny fat. Like I dunno, maybe men need to accept that women come in all shapes and sizes and aren't required to meet whatever lame "preferences" they have.
What a great video!! Really highlights that things change all the time so we need to accept not to conform to societies standards! Having various trends is just what drives society
I really needed this video, I never realized 90s models were rectangles and I felt so insecure about my waist not being small enough compared to my hips and shoulders. I will always try to look better but this really helped me about how I feel towards my body.
I had a mental breakdown yesterday because of the way my body looks. The timing of video couldn't have been more perfect. Thank you Stephanie
Felt that. I used to have mental breakdowns because i was so insecure about the way i look. I'm learning to accept myself the way i am. :)
Every body type is beautiful, please don't be hard on yourself!
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@@briana_patrick Yes! There's nothing we can do about it anyway, so the best is too accept and embrace it
Sending love your way! We all have those days . It’s really what’s on the inside that counts anyway! ❤
Finally . It’s so annoying having women say oh you’re skinny you’re the beauty standard… no we’re not. Also thank you for actually calling out the degenerate Kardashians which women also still support .
Yes! I the this so much. Being skinny is not the standard. Being a perfect hourglass is. I have a tiny hourglass but it’s not super obvious unless I wear bodycon and i get shoved into the rectangular category cause apparently you need a 20 inch difference in hip/waist/chest ratio or is just not good enough.
i've always wondered why the insta/kardashian body always looked funny. and then i figured it out when i watched a lorry hill video on youtube. they use sculptra or their own body fat to erase their natural hip dips. it causes an uncanny valley look to the body that doesn't exist in nature. natural hourglass bodies don't even look like that so don't compare yourself to her. and guess what? she's back to skinny rectangle again 🤣🤣🤣
@@nitely2345 yup . But then women get BBL’s and take shortcuts and use filters in Photoshop.
That’s why I said women need to stop blaming Mang for the beauty standard because it’s women creating the beauty standard for other women .
Men don’t like a lot of the things women do they don’t like the fake eyelashes they don’t like the fake nails they don’t like the plastic .
Give it a few years. The pendulum of fashion/beauty trends swings back and forth.
@@RS54321 maybe for women by their standards. But majority of men will always prefer the hour glass shape that is of now
I’ve always admired the rectangle bodyshape because it looks so sporty, healthy and athletic. Espacially the shoulders look so good when they are the same size as the hips. I always wanted that. Go rock rectangle girls! ❤
Thank you for this video! As an inverted triangle, I’ve spent most of my life, feeling the absolute wrong shape and trying to compensate for it. But I have to say the past for five years I’ve just really embraced my shape and I don’t want to look like an hourglass.😎
Being a rectangle I always felt confident when I'm slim, when I put on weight not so much because rectangles gain weight everywhere and I felt I looked like a mini fridge 😅. Now I'm back to my healthy slim weight and I feel like a bombshell again at 48 😊
😂 So happy for you ❤ I‘m 42 and gained 20 pds since the pandemic. I really need to do something for my body. I’m a pear 🍐 btw 😉
A mini fridge 🤣🤣🤣 you made me laugh out loud
@@KB-sg7tv glad to bring a little joy 😁, I seem to get that reaction a lot whenever I casually mention it 🤣
I've NEVER HEARD IT PUT SO WELL. I'm a rectangle and when I gain muscle - I gain it everwhere!!! When I gain fat or retain water it is also EvErYwHeRe!!!!!!! So I just end up getting larger and not in a good way. I don't gain in my chest or my butt. :( Instead it's my arms, my legs, my stomach that just increase, and then my butt and chest along with it. I've always felt so defective unless I'm super skinny by restricting my food and overexercising.
@LoSmith1982 you definitely don't have to restrict on the contrary you have to add. For example, if I'm craving cookies, I'll have some yogurt, maybe with some granola or fruit in it, and then I'll have that cookie. The yogurt helps me feel more satiated, so instead of over eating cookies, I'll just have one or two. This applies to all foods , mixing and matching the healthy with the not so healthy so you can have what you love in moderation
I applaud you for creating these types of videos! Not only does my 54-year-old self need to hear this message, my 20-year-old daughter most certainly needs to hear it! Women need to support one another, and your videos do exactly that: support and uplift women - thank you! 👏 ❤
You are a wonderful mom💖 I say this as a 20 year old girl
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I agree ❤😊
I have a hourglass body shape and I am (healthy)thin, but in my teenager days when rectangle shape was a thing, I was very ashamed of my body figure because my friends called me deformed. It made me really insecure. I fortunately didn't try to change my body, I just covered it up. And then from my late 20s and 30s I am envied by my friends for being a hourglass and they constantly tell me how lucky I am 😅
It's really weird how our perception of beauty changes..
I appreciate your videos because young women have to understand that beauty is subjective and changes with fashion trends and they need to love themselves the way they are.
I have the upside-down triangle type of body, I have hip dips and I'm learning to accept my body. I deleted the majority of social media for my mental health and I find new things to love about myself every day. Thank you for this video ❤
The fact that our body shape goes in and out of fashion like clothing does is mind blowing…and just plain dumb!! Thank you Stephanie for reminding everyone that we are all beautiful and timeless and it is fashion that goes in and out of style, not us🥰🥰🥰
I don’t find any of the bodies of the supermodels from the 90s rectangular. All of them had waists narrower than their hips and breasts, thus neing toned. Ofc they did not have an hourglass figure with overexagerrayed curves but they were certainly not inverted triangle or triangle
I agree. I feel like rectangular is more so having a waist the same size has the hips. I feel like none of those supermodels (except maybe Kate Moss) were totally straight up and down, all just had slender frames but still had waists that curved inward. Hailey Baldwin and Dua Lipa are better examples of a rectangular shape.
It’s the ratio as to why she is labeling them rectangle. You can still have a slimmer waist but it must be at a certain percentage in comparison to bust and hips to not be rectangular. I think it’s at least 25%. According to the crazy body type standards anything smaller is rectangular even with a.defined waist.
@@cloudsncats totally agree, maybe only Kate, although I think she also had a nice waist hip ratio, she was just skinny. I thought of Adriana and Giselle.
Yeah Christy Turlington and Linda Evangelista, they had defined waists. I think models like Cindy Crawford and Helena Christensen, Naomi, Kate Moss, etc have different body shapes but there was emphasis on smaller waist than bust or hips.
I think if you're too fat or too thin it's really hard to determine ur body shape
I really like that you all put this into perspective. Thanks for your work.
I wanted to thank you for this video. I was going down a spiral of trying to emphasise my figure to make it look more hourglass. I hated my figure, but thanks to you ive been able to accept it! Your work is so so SO important. Thank you :)
THANK YOU. I don't have a natural small waist and for many years I seriously thought that there was something wrong with me, because wherever I looked everyone had these small waist, even plus sized models had defined waists and beautiful curvy bodies, but no matter how much weight I lost or gained I was as straight as a rectangle. I dropped weight like crazy expecting the waist to EVENTUALLY appear when that was just not my body type.
I don't have a waist, I will probably never have a natural tiny waist, and that is FINE.
don't worry. in my experience, men and women love skinny rectangular bodies. the rare one's love bbw, but skinny's always queen.
And there are nice things about every body. I have a small, short, high waist, so watch out when I gain weight. I’ll look like a top heavy bird. Sometimes people without a natural small waist have a really nice harmonious elongation (my mom is like this). And elongation is lovely especially in certain clothes, it’s very elegant. So it’s important to remember that there are certain beautiful fashion styles you rock by looking exactly the way you look that people like me don’t look as good in. Just like the other way round. We all have stuff that looks the best on us out of every body type 😊
Thanks for writing this. I had the exact same experience. Plus of course, hours and hours of researching and doing 'waist slimming' excercises that did nothing, except making me more defined and even more rectangular 😂
I always had an hour glass shape and now I have a bloated stomach. Just love yourself as you are. And, also, your personality and soul are who you are really.
I honestly can't get what is wrong with being a rectangular, never been able to comprehend. I would love to have that bodytype, such people tend to stay quite lean and fit whilst being good at sports. Society is just obsessed with being obsessed with any shit possible
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Fr though most clothes are designed for rectangular bodies
@@user-gt7iy9zn3ksame I have this body shape and I absolutely love it!
when you have a lean body it's going to be more rectangular than it would be if your body fat is distributed around your hips, bum and chest. so as you lose/gain body fat you become more rectangular/hourglass. so a lot of athletic woman have a more rectangular body shape because of that lower body fat %. so i wouldn't say it's that rectangular frames make you more predisposed to being lean, but being lean makes your silhouette more rectangular.
I wouldn’t say that having this body type makes you stronger or more fit. It only makes you look that way (I am the example).
Moreover - fitness professionals with rectangular body shape don’t look as spectacular as any-other-body-typed fitness trainers. Anna Lewandowska (probably unknown in the US) is a great example.
@user-gt7iy9zn3k well you only LOOK athletic if you have that body shape. i am a rectangle and i'm weak, have terribe stamina and i'm bad at all sports 😅 it's funny to me that people always assume that i'm athletic even though it's the opposite.
You’re doing fantastic work shedding light on how insane our society has become. We need more voices like yours. This is coming from someone in their forties who doesn’t subscribe to these standards. Happy us women from a different time can pass the torch to you 🗽
As usual with your videos Steph, THANK YOU! This video was Such a much Needed dose of both FACT and REALITY.
Wow! As a rectangle, I’ve never felt so comforted and at peace with myself. I know it will only last a few hours, but this reassurance has made me put aside my doubts of my own womanly beauty for at least a little bit.
Oh I doubt everyone.
It's even harder for those of us with hip dips. Anatomically, I am an hourglass, but look like a deformed inverted triangle because of my hip dips. Makes it so hard to love my body since I never ever see anyone with my body type shown in mainstream media, despite being skinny. Not to mention, all the "how to dress for your body type" videos never work because I don't look like what my measurements say I'm supposed to look like.
Just love yourself. I’ve always had them even at 100lbs.
Actually kinda same
Check kibbe body types, is waaaay better than the fruits/system system as it's about to embrace our own lines and features instead of correcting our bodies to fit an "ideal"
Lot of supermodels had them in the nineties, there is nothing wrong with hip dips. I have them too and could not care less.
Same, girl! But I've found that this is not at all uncommon, but as Stephanie was highlighting, people are hiding it. Also ignore the incel in the comment below. I reported his message and you should too. Men like these are just trying to lower women's self esteem so they actually have a chance with them - never let them accomplish that! Be gentle and kind to yourself and your body, the way I'm sure you are to others. We're all struggling, for different reasons. Keep strong!
Thank you for this powerful video ❤
Having spent almost all of my 61 years being “not on trend” as a small hourglass, I could not understand when people in my pole dancing class, (which I took up in my fifties,) asked me “ who did” my butt. No one. I did it. It’s literally mine lol. Sooo strange. I feel so much for girls and women today. We cannot win. We need to take it back. ❤
In my country(Brazil )hourglass body shape have always been the main trend. I hated my non-curve body for so many years. I'm still working in accept me more, and I still very ashemed of my body when I'm in a swimsuit.
I understand your pain, I feel better about myself as of lately, it's a hard step
dont be ashamed of something u cant control, if ur not gonna appreciate urself then who will? cant be society
I feel like people today think that a pear body is an hourglass, so hourglass girls become a rectangle. No one can tell us how to look, it's awful how social media makes us insecure so they can earn lots of money by selling us all of that stuff for being "pretty". I do not need BBL to be pretty, I was born pretty, and I admire rectangle girls, you are fantastic and don't let anyone tell that you're not!
I'm Brazilian. A body to be considered pear shape has to have hips which are wider than the shoulders. I also don't agree if people consider it to be an hourglass. I have an hourglass body though. My hips and shoulders are almost the exact same when measured.
90's models are not rectangular. Neither is Kate Hudson. The problem is that surgeries and internet have created an unrealistic ideal that no one can attain, not even the Kardashians. Hourglass body types are not like Kylie Jenner. Her body is just possible due to surgery. No one has that body naturaly
100% agree with everything said in this video. I do have to admit I never saw 90's bodies as rectangular. I just thought that's how a woman's body was supposed to look. They looked hourglass to me back then. I will be so glad when the BBL is a thing of the past. I am dying to see how all of these women are going to transition and dissolve all of that butt fat. There is going to be so much loose skin!!
Thank you so much for this video. I’m a black girl with a rectangle figure. I had no idea how many other women have this shape. I’ve always felt really abnormal for it. I won’t anymore. 💗
When I was young and in ballet classes, I was told having a rectangle body shape was very elegant and gorgeous. That always stuck with me and I still believe its true even according to today's beauty standards. Having a rectangle shape makes you appear taller, slimmer, clothes hang pretty on your body, typically this shape doesn't have huge boobs so easier on your back/bras/and wearing blouses. The clothes in the stores fit easier on this shape. Sometimes with this shape you look naturally more 'fit' than others even if you don't workout. I must say I am a fan of the rectangle shape. Look at Aaliyah, one of the most beautiful singers, she didn't have a curvaceous body but she was nonetheless an absolute beauty. - Once rectangular body shape and thin eyebrows are back in trend....I'll be ready LOL
Great comment! ✌🏽
Yep- its definitely still in fashion, every top model has this body shape, most clothes are designed for this body shape 🤷🏻♀️
@@dysmissme7343 sadly. Fashion use women like objects, 1 skinny shape to wear clothes.
Thin eyebrows have already started coming back
This is true!! The amount of people who think I'm a top athlete and super fit just because of my body is insane haha!
I have an hourglass and for a significant period of my teenager years I was extremely unsatisfied! I was tired of jeans never fitting me and clothes showing my tummy more as a result of my hips stretching the material hence I wanted a more rectangular body and after the rise of hourglass figure people would compliment me and be like “oh at least you have an hourglass figure look at me!” And I wasn’t even allowed to complain bc I had the “perfect” body I never felt satisfied with.
There are definitely downsides to being hourglass too. All shapes have positive and negative sides. I am naturally a thick-slim with too big boobs. Wanting to dress elegantly, it is actually pretty annoying that most trendy pieces look overly sexualised. My friends could pull it off, but I just look trashy and feel uncomfortable.
Rectangular is ok but it’s the inverted triangle that would make me cry everyday
Because of your videos, I have less and less insecurities and can accept myself more and more. Thank you so much!❤️
I’m definitely a rectangle and have always wanted to be an hourglass. I am also very wide and short so it’s hard to find clothes that don’t make me look frumpy. You’re videos always make me feel better about myself! Sometimes I see so many hourglass women online, I feel like I’m less of a woman since I don’t look like that so it’s good to have reminders that there are many women who are similar to me. Thanks!
Start getting your clothing tailored to your measurements, game changer!
i feel that so hard, as a trans woman, even with surgery, its impossible for me to even loosely resemble the body shape that is prominent right now. I'm an inverted Triangle, even tho my hips are a little wider then my waist, its all diminished by my broad shoulders :/ I never see women like me, and it makes me feel sad and insecure
Thank you. I’ve always been a rectangle and of late, in my 50s, I feel even more unattractive than ever. I’m quite beautiful but very athletic in shape. I needed to hear this. ❤
I love that you call yourself beautiful. ❤ that’s amazing and good for you.
Thank you so much!
Your videos actually help me and other women to feel more at ease and even proud of the shape we come in. Love it!
Exactly! So relatable.. Every type is beautiful and it's time companies made clothes for differents shapes instead of being economical and shaming us every other decade to make profit.
As someone who has naturally "slim-fat" body shape, I feel insecure both ways when they pay too much of attention to this type and when they say it's getting out of fashion now. Can't we just agree that people are different and they are not about shapes but more about personalities?
Спасибо, Стефани! Я не думала, что эта тема так сильно на меня влияет, и что я комплексую из-за того, что у меня фигура прямоугольная, но это так. И я так благодарна тебе за это видео!
Я тоже из тех, кто пыталась убедить себя в том, что у меня песочные часы, хотя это не так.
Спасибо, что напомнила про моделей из 90-х, это действительно очень сильно поддерживает и позволяет принять свое тело таким, какое оно есть)
Finally! I now know what my body shape is - rectangular! I was wearing boys 16 slims in high school. Mum said I had "snake hips." This makes me feel so much better. Thanks for this!❤
You're such a breathe of fresh air in this era where more than ever, everybody seems to neat-pick on women's bodies. I love that there is so much genetic variety in Humankind. That's what makes us all unique! By wanting to conform, we will all look the same, therefore loosing a part of what makes us unique. The phrase: ''our bodies aren't fashion trends'' couldn't be more true!
I’ve been struggling lately looking in the mirror and seeing my rectangular body type. It’s made me feel like I’m somewhat less of a woman. I’m naturally tiny boned, I don’t have big boobs or a big butt. This video came at the perfect time, thank you Stephanie for making me feel a lot better about my body ❤
Wow thank you for showing the rectangle 90s trend. I’ve always been insecure about my rectangle shape but all of those girls were beautiful! Gave me some confidence
This is so insane. So grateful for your videos.
Pure gold.thank you.
Your videos are divine intervention and they make me cry. Thank you for existing and doing what you do.
Thank you for reminding us that we are okay as we are ❤❤❤
PREACH!! I love your point of view ❤❤❤❤
thank you so so much for this. the only body positivity i see everywhere is for plus size women or “apple” and “pear” body shapes but never the dreaded rectangle! the amount of times i’ve been told i’m not allowed to be insecure because i’m skinny even tho skinny isn’t the ideal. like u said , it’s slim thick with curves. and i’m constantly being invalidated for pointing out that skinny isn’t the beauty standard anymore and hasn’t been in a long time. it’s a lonely feeling when i get body shamed by half the internet and the other half says we don’t get it as bad as bigger people. idk why we are deemed not as deserving of body positivity. so thank you.
You are uploading more! Thank you Stephanie!!
I am an hourglass and tired of the trends 😩.
It is incredibly harming to the teenagers even if they think that they are not influenced. It's time we stopped , it's getting out of hand!!
I have always been pretty small and rectangular and suffered from body dysmorphia because I’m very insecure of how flat I am. I thought I would get big boobs and be curvy (currently almost 22 years old) I don’t have a big butt or boobs and it makes me feel very unfeminine. Been told I look 12. I’m working towards body neutrality l because I can at least acknowledge that my body is functioning and healthy and I can appreciate that, despite how it looks. I have started going to the gym to build muscle to help 💪
It’s living in Hell …. Trust me if you can work on your mental health regarding this, that’s the major positive change that will take place. Xo
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😂 girl I love your sass!! Your so rite! Thank you for putting it out there!!
Yes I love being a rectangle
Then there are people like me who have an hourglass look but not a flat tummy. You can't always win. You can't have big ass and boobs and a flat stomach. You have to have all 3 of them. The same goes for having a thin waist. You can only pick one of the 2 options. That's just how naturally we are. And there's nothing wrong with that.
My sister is a rectangular and I've always envied her for this body. Her stomach is always flat, she looks good in any pair of jeans and her legs look so long. She never had much cellulite to begin with and even though she says that she looks best in bodycon dresses (which she does), I feel she looks good in everything. Meanwhile I'm a pear shaped, or recently hourglass. Which for some people may sound like I am bragging or that it's a good thing, but it's not. I am short, my hips are wide and even though my waist is very small, I always have a bit of tummy, cellulite, thicker legs. I don't like revealing clothes, so my jeans look weird on me, high waisted, low waisted, you name it. So I have no idea why these women hate their rectangular bodies, I would have loved to be like this, it's very statuesque, very "birth of Venus" type.
Thank you so much ❤❤❤I needed this video
I was a kid in the 90s and used to be mesmerized by looking at the supermodels like Cindy, Claudia and Elle in the magazines. I even begged my mom to buy me that Cindy workout video! I’m not a fan of the current ‘body’ trends at all, that’s so unreal.
From now on, i am a proud rectangle! Thank you so much!
Thank you so, so much for this. The past few months I've been extra insecure because of my wide ribcage and waist. This video helped a bit.
I'm getting emotional because I really like and appreciate this video. I have a rectangular body shape. Sometimes I wish I had an hourglass body shape too. Thank you for the reminder that my body shape (and the other ones) are just as beautiful as the current desired shape, the hourglass.
Thank you for this. At the age of 12, i developed body issues, because i started noticing how a lot of the other girls had defined, small waists. I on the other hand, am very rectangular. I thought i was less feminine for that reason. Thank you for reminding us that women come in all different shapes and sizes ❤️
i used to despise my figure in high school when a competitive swimmer and diver. only in the past couple of years have i accepted being a rectangle. as a mom, it’s not very typical to maintain a fit physique. im still fit, and i like my flat tummy, fluffy butt, long legs and lashes. by reminding myself of the things i DO like about myself, i took my attention away from the things i don’t and have previously considered “fixing”. amen sister ❤
That's beautiful I'm happy you embraced your unique features
Thank you for making this video. Really made me feel better about myself ❤
I saw this on my feed when I was feeling really down about myself, now I feel so much better. Tysm ❤️
Posing to accentuate is one thing, but Having permanent procedures to conform to fad body standards is just disasters waiting to happen. Fashion, standards, etc change at pretty regular intervals. Just not smart to have these permanent procedures done. ❤
I’ve found myself comparing myself to other girl bodies more recently and your video made me feel so much more confident in my own body… thank you so much 💕💕
Thank you for making this video!
Love your work stephanie !! You go girl❤ Do one for pear shaped body shape
Excellent message here. I commend you for saying what needs to be said. I would add that if you want to be HAPPIER in general, shut down all of your social media accounts. Throw out your tv. And stop comparing yourself to other women. By shutting down your social media accounts and getting rid of your tv you will no longer be able to COMPARE yourselves with others, thus making you HAPPIER In general.
I hated looking at pictures of myself in my swimsuits but this video made me realize that my body isn't any different from them. I guess it all comes down to how good you're at posing and looking confident. Thank you so much for this video
As a rectagle myself, thank you for this video.
We as humans can never win! I suffered so much in the rectangle era back in the day. I’m pear shaped. I wish we could all just embrace our own unique body shapes.
I wasn’t aware a rectangular body shape was actually in trend not that long ago, wow! What a wonderful message 🌹❤️ Thank you, Stephanie 🙏🏻❤️
This actually helped me view my body differently. I needed to hear all of this
I can’t wait to watch this as a short curvy person shaped like a rectangle. I’ve always felt like if my waist was just thinner my insecurities would go away. It fueled my ED for so many years- When the truth is that’s just the shape of my body which cannot be drastically changed with weight loss. The way I got into recovery was (angrily) realizing nothing I could do would change the fact I’m built like this and my only choice is misery or neutrality.
You killed me with last phrase hahah. Your videos should be viral in order to help improving self esteem and make us aware the tricky reality of fashion trends.
This helped so much with how I think about my rectangle body, thank you lovely
thank you for the analisis
This video really helped me accept my rectangular body shape more ❤❤
You should take a look at Kibbe’s typology, I find it very inspirational in the process of understanding body types and how clothes can make a different impression based on your physique !
okay... this video actualy made me feel better. Thank you so so much
You help me so much with these natural and edited pictures ESPECIALLY in the same outfit next to each other. These people look normal, just like me. And I am so glad that they do
Growing up in Rio (Brazil) I h4ted being skinny… There’s this “singer”, from the same city, with a song that says a lot “hot girls, where I’m from, We DoN’t LoOk LiKe MoDeLs! Tan lines, big cuuuuuurves”! This song represents the major young female b*lly pack in my area (many of the girls who physically, verbally and morally ass4ulted me back in school definitely had these “cuuuuuurves”… They’re definitely the actual true definition of “majority”)! Till these days I deal with awful stuff (the difference is that with God’s help I no longer h4te my body). A lady we hired to clean our house said I could take some supplements to gain some “body” (context: there’s no context. I was leaving for the gym, briefly said to my grandma I was eating at my gym’s cafe bc I didn’t want to be home late to do some uni work and she had the audacity to say that)! A similar situation happened at the gym. A woman was shocked when I asked her her thoughts about certain class there (if it was good), and she was like “are you trying to lose weight?”, and to that I responded “I’m asking bc the gym looks full of users today, so I’m thinking about taking one of those classes so at least I exercised in some way!”, and she said “I think it’s not for you bc you don’t need to lose weight!”… What? Did I say I was trying to lose weight? What makes it even more ridiculous is that I’m a professionally trained ballerina in a hiatus (due to university and financial reasons). As an athlete, I have to eat a lot (a lot of good food, obviously) to keep up with high intensity workouts and, probably, more intense than stuff she has ever faced in a local gym! Never lost weight bc of that bc of my good nutrition habits (actually, I would say I lost some weight after I entered my hiatus, which made me get into a gym so I could keep up with at least some of that)! We have no scale at home, so I try to weight myself at the gym to be aware if I’m losing the weight I’m not supposed to lose (otherwise I would be underweight and not skinny, which are different things) and since that I’m terrified about trying to do that and have people looking weird as if I had an ED! Not to mention the amount of times people, who supposedly tried to “cheer me up” when I complained that clothes I found in average working class Brazilian stores said to be “small” were still for women with the “ideal Brazilian figure” (of voluptuous chest, a$s, tights and etc), and not for a rectangle body shape that many of the times (I know there are exceptions) is how a skinny person is, replied: “well, but at least know that in high end brands and boutiques you’re more likely to find pieces for your body type than bigger ppl!”… I’m sorry? Did I missed the part I was an heir and had the resources to afford shopping on boutiques? This kind of backhanded “compliment” does nothing but to frustrate me for being poor as a skinny woman (at least no longer frustrates me for being skinny, as an isolated fact)!
There was also a time where a woman took my money and when I tried to confront her she said “not discussing with you bc you’re a girl, not a woman”! That hit me hard bc 1, I was an adult, and 2, Ik where these people usually come from (in this case, both men and women, when they’re skinny, they’re often perceived as weaker, as less mature than the other person, as still “not developed” and much more bc, in their stupid minds, they associate us with a person still going through puberty and, therefore, not in the place to handle a number of situations like them)! Those R$50 (about 10 USD) were important for me at that time, as an student, but I know God will speak for me and, more important, nothing substantial will be missed at home (such as food, paid bills and etc)! But I wish her blessings and I hope her daughter doesn’t grow up the same way as her mother! I could be here talking a lot more (like when those school bu11ies tried to k1ll me by pulling me out of the stairs saying “can you fly? Bc you’re so skinny!” and I managed to throw my body to the side and grab the handrail), but I’m stopping here! I roll my eyes every comment section I go and there’s this person saying “funny how neither being skinny is in these days!”… Honey, it was “in” in your bubble! The world is not a nation you’re from, a city u live in or a career path you’re at!
Steph once again speaking the truth 🙏🏻
THANK YOU. it took me way way too long to understand that i am a rectangle shape, and i can also be of value >
I needed this
Yes! I'm 19 and this is my body type, watching these gorgeous women on the media that look like me, makes me feel better about myself.
i remember punching my thighs to make them look skinnier as a kid, now i have a slim thick build and all of my friends i envied as a kid try to have my body shape. it’s so weird
pinching
I've gotten told I got po*n star boobs when I was 14 and now 17 and the compliments are" gyat" and "nice tits" and I look like a milf 😂🙄