They were all shapes and sizes, and they too had hip dips – and I thought, well, they're all a bit bloody gorgeous. This time around, pictures of women – like me – in their pastel gym clothes, bikinis and fitted dresses came up. Until one day, after years of agreeing with the internal voice telling me I looked 'weird' and 'boxy' in skinny jeans, I tried another Google search term: 'women with hip dips'. People were searching for how to surgically correct this part of my figure that I'd only just noticed (after twenty-odd years on the planet)? I immediately added hip dips to my mental list of 'things to hate about myself' and began shifting my weight onto one hip when posing in pictures to 'round myself out'. A quick Google search soon pulled up a tonne of articles about 'how to get rid of hip dips' or 'surgery for hip dips' which only added to my spiralling self-consciousness. A bit like a violin shape, if you will.Īfter that, I became fixated on my 'abnormal' hips, comparing them to all the perfect Kardashian-esque figure-of-eight bodies dominating my Instagram feed. I have, because a few years ago while scrutinising myself in a gym changing room mirror (while wearing very snug leggings), I realised that rather than curving all the way round like Beyoncé's, my hips sort of came in a little in the middle. There are a couple of events at the coast near Blackpool - at Lytham St Anne's Beach (July 6, 11am to 7pm) and Poulton Swim & Spa, Poulton-le-Fylde (July 6, 7pm to 9pm).Hip dips – maybe you've heard this terms before, maybe you haven't. Things to do in Manchester over the May bank holiday weekend.There are no events confirmed to be taking place in Greater Manchester yet, but you can sign up online to organise your own. 'Millions of people worldwide have discovered this simple antidote to the stresses of modern life and we want to encourage more people to experience it.' Spokesman Andrew Welch said: 'People who regularly shed their clothes know that the benefits include improved well-being, reduced stress and an increase in body confidence. Naked swims will be staged up and down the country in July as part of a campaign by British Naturism to promote 'the health benefits of nudity'. Leave your cossies at home and your self-consciousness at the door.Ī mass skinny dip is coming to pools, lakes and beaches - with a couple of them just a short drive away near Blackpool.

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