On PNet, I've heard told that a size 12 is a "BBW" 

Lol, on Pnet, they talk a lot of nonsense and regularly demonstrate a complete lack of understanding where women are concerned. Also, if you dare charge more than about ?70 per hour they are currently boycotting you, mind, so that's even more reason to not pay them any attention.

(I am certainly generalising here so apologies to any Not-Wankers On Pnet who might be offended. Especially as the general air of negativity there is so strong it's driven all the prossies away from posting and now all the punters lurk here to get their speakin'-to-hos kicks. )

Hi Strawberry and welcome along,
I would have thought that at height 5'9 a size 14/16 is thin, for your height? I mean, your tall so the size of clothes you wear is in proportion to your height?
I am 5'4 - when I started this job I was a size 10 (and as she gently weeps in to her bucket sized coffee cup, she admits) I am now a size 14.
This is laziness on my part, too darn lazy to get up and go exercise and the fact that chocolate tastes so good.

For my height I am now what you could term, curvy. I don't look big, it's all gone on in total proportion, all over me rather than just my backside and my belly. I look well fed and healthy as opposed to over fed and almost dead from the effort of moving from couch to fridge.
I don't like this extra weight - I don't like bagging up all my nice clothes and considering selling them on ebay - it upsets me. I don't like feeling as if I have to cover up on a warm day (yeah, we had 1 warm day a couple of weeks ago!)
But I have to tell you, not one of my clients have complained and most go gaga over my arse now in a way they never did before.
It's sort of torn me.
I want to get back to a size 10 I want to get fit is the key, fit means more to me than getting into my jeans but, guys seem to like me this size so I am on the fence.
I think ultimately, if I feel I need to shape up then I am going to shape up, I will do it this year as I feel I have to do it.
But clients do not seem to care. Be they the regulars that come by and have not noticed I have gained weight, I mean, if you see somebody all the time, you don't notice a gradual creeping on of weight. Or the new guys that come by and have only ever seen me this size. I am busier now than I was last year but that has nothing to do with size, it's just the work.

You will have men that like thin women and thin women are doing well. Just as I am doing well. It takes all sorts. I don't like thin men, personally, I like a bit of meat on a man. It's personal taste, we all have our type then.

I tell you what though... When a young guy walks through my door, I suck in my belly and I say to him 'You knew I was a mature escort, right?' Because I can't get my head around seeing a younger guy, I am talking in their 20's here. I can't understand what he would see in me. I think he deserves a hot looking, young, slim lady, not me. I am late 30's and out of shape. That is the only time I feel odd about it all. I have to point out I am old compared to them and not some slip of a girl.
Now if anybody has an idea how to overcome that issue, I would be interested to hear it.
I love red hair. Can't remember who said it on the thread but it does look nicer on a girl than a boy, your very lucky, people pay a lot of cash to go red!
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