Oh, you ladies!! When I was young I thought I was as plain as mud and shaped like a dirtclod! Not according to my first husband! A month before he died (we were 40) he told me he was always afraid he'd wake up one morning and I'd be gone because I was more beautiful than he deserved - (he looked like Tom Selleck, to me!!) He could never figure out why I married him! He'd never said anything like that ever before.
After he died nothing bothered me about how I looked. Now, I'm 63 overweight and still wear a bikini to swim (I would wear nothing if it were legal - I love the water). The only reason I dont wear sleeveless is I stopped wearing bras when he died so there could be collateral issues happening in public -lol.
Take everything off! All of it! find the biggest mirror in your house and really look at yourself. You are as beautiful on the outside as you are on the inside!! Flappy, flabby, droopy, boney, patchy parts and all. If you try to hide parts of your outside you'll succeed in hiding some of the best parts that are inside you, too. Some of the most perfectly beautiful people are rather ugly on the inside.
If I thought I wasn't the way I was meant to be it would be like saying to God, well, thanks for the body, but its not exactly perfect, is it - . I wish I could have understood that as a teen on up, it would have saved me thousands in makeup (dont wear it now) foundation garments (ditto), special outfits to hide my "bad parts", too expensive bathing suits, and angst in all the thoughts I had about what I thought other people were seeing/judging me on and not actually enjoying the moment I was in.
I guess Im suggesting if you feel passionate about covering up parts of yourselves, do it because you feel more comfortable dressed that way, not because you think you have to hide parts. sharet