Weddingbee boards

I've been thinking about it, and honestly I don't know. I wore a bikini a couple years ago at the height of my fitness craze or whatever, but since meeting hubby things have, uh.. gotten a little jiggly.. or jigglIER I should say :P

I don't live in an apartment anymore, so my access to a swimming pool is limited, and there are not many lakes around here that are legal to swim in so really, wearing a bathing suit at all this summer might not happen unless we travel a little distance or I decided to lay out and get some sun in the backyard.

Anyways, just curious.. bikini for you bees? One-piece? Not at all?

I'm 33 years old and have had a child.  I think I still look pretty good.  But I fear time is marching on and I only have a couple more years before I turn into that "delusional woman who thinks she can still wear a bikini".  I'm going to rock one this summer!

I work at a day-camp during the summer and spend about a day a week in my bathing suit (and we go to the water park about 3 times a summer). I rock the heck out of my (sporty) bikini (obviously it is a high coverage bikini as I am working with kids). I'm tiny but not toned and my belly sticks out a little sometimes, but who cares! 

I think as long as you pick out the corect bikini/bathing suit for your body type and wear it with confidence, then no one will notice any of your "trouble areas" :)

@ eeniebeans - Rock on! and BTW, you're still plenty young to wear a bikini. You have several years to go! You're only 3 yrs older than me! I haven't had any kids, but I definately have my trouble areas. And I'm vertically challenged with short legs that tend to be..stocky? Definately not my dream bikini body.

@ hotchild - I like getting tan all over as well, except that over the past few years I've gotten a lot more cautious about the sun. I used to tan constantly years ago and NEVER ever wore sunscreen. It's just been in the past 3 years that I've actually started using it. I wish I could go back in time and slap myself.

Well to all of you who are confident in wearing one, that's awesome! I have been working out, but not nearly as "hard" as I used to and there's still a lot of room for improvement. I know my hubby loves me, but I would still feel self-conscious being at a public swimming area or whatever with tiny perfect chicks walking around half-naked in front of him :/

@okqueenbee: I'm 22 and have always been a religious sunscreen wearer. (I grew up in Tucson AZ and the moved to the beach in LA in middle school). At 18 years old I have already had a biopsy done to test for skin cancer :(

i havent chosen yet. mostly because i HAVE to buy separates to fit my body type (my bust is freakishly larger than the rest of me) so its either a bikini (horror upon horrors!) or a tankini - which i am leaning towards :)

@ babyboo - Wow.. well, I'm glad you're OK and that you have always worn sunscreen! See that totally scares me. I actually have a couple of moles on me that I am going to show the dr. when I go in May, and it makes me really nervous to think about it.

I've never tried a tankini...maybe I should do that..

I have worn a one-piece before but (no offense to all you one-piece lovers out there), I always felt like an old lady in it.

@sulli: my mom was also a worshipper of the sun in the 70s (she grew up by the beach, too). She told me her and her friends would go down to the beach, rub baby oil over themselves, and tan all day!

@ hotchild - Thanks! I just went on their website to look and when I clicked on "swim" I saw that they do have some cute suits, but I'm at work and I feel weird looking at girls in bathing suits online LOL. I'll visit it later when I get home ;)

@ maisy - lol

I voted for other because I'm not wearing a bikini, but not because of how I look. I just prefer how one-pieces look on me :)

I own a few bikinis, and I feel like they look weird on me for some reason. But I LOVE all my cute vintagey one-pieces. Maybe it's because they're just all more my style?

I went all modest around age 18, so I don't wear bikinis anymore. I started preferring bikinis to one-pieces at twelve and wore the skimpiest clothes possible all throughout my teens.  Then around eighteen, I just started feeling really WEIRD in bikinis.  It became too apparent to me that it was the next closest thing to wearing my underwear in public!  I haven't worn a bikini since.  I don't tan and rarely get in the water, but when I do I wear a pretty one-piece with cute, appropriate shorts over it these days (my upper thighs and butt have always been what I'm most sensitive about!).  I have gained a little weight since transferring colleges, which probably doesn't help, but I'm still a size 4/6, which I don't think is that big.  FI thinks I'm nuts and wishes I'd wear bikinis but, eh. I'm not comfortable in them anymore.  

Naw Lillindy, you're not the odd one out!  I wear almost the same thing as you (one piece+shorts), I just started doing it a bit later (end of high school).  And I feel like everyone becomes too easily acquainted with 'the girls' even in that get-up.

It's so weird because I'm not a prude AT ALL, I just started dressing more modestly when I hit 18 and part of that included nixing the bikinis!  I hate feeling exposed too.  But you should see the skimpy things I wore before then...