What are you self-conscious about?

Why don’t you just write about it? Does it have to do with your body, your abilities, your relationship, your family? Who makes you self-conscious? Has this affected your life greatly?

I think for the most part I’ve always been self-conscious about my weight fluctuations because my mother always berated me for any weight gain and this continued with my dance teachers both in Russia and here, in the U.S.

I suppose it didn’t help that my ex-husband watched what I ate and made ‘innocent’ comments about how I shouldn’t eat this and that and I was at a perfect weight then…now, many many more pounds later and 2 babies out of my body and in a better relationship, I feel less self conscious but those messages we hear everywhere do get to me, as well

I don’t like acne that I get, I don’t like my teeth not being perfectly white or my hair being flat and colorless sometimes…I never thought I was unattractive and it doesn’t help that here, in Brooklyn, it’s pretty much a given that everyone will stare at you if you’re perceived as woman and make comments and advances and you’re always bothered

I don’t like how certain parts of my body ‘hang’ now like my breasts or tummy and how my nipples after all this breastfeed are 5 inches wide (I’m not joking, :))

I don’t like putting on appearances and for ‘important’ occasions I dress a lot more casually because I just don’t want to bother but later feel self-conscious about it…

English is not my first language so sometimes I am self-conscious about speaking in front of others because of the way that I form my sentences or I don’t know how to pronounce something….

There’s more, but you get the picture