Feeling very unattractive

[BarnMomma]

So this is my second pregnancy. Thrilled to be pregnat with a healthy baby girl.

But I'm SO not loving my appearance.
I'm having skin issues-acne, red itchy blothcy, dry, oily skin. It's not good.

My hair, which was thick and shiny and beautiful with my last pregnancy is stringy, oily and limp.

I smell. I swear I can shower and wash every inch of myself and two hours later I smell. Not just body odor, which is an issue too, but just like my pores are leaking a bad odor.

I feel like no matter what I do, I don't look very good. And with my last pregnany I had that glow for sure. Not this time.

Thanks for letting me vent.

[sharr610]

. I so know how you feel. I'm right there with you. But people keep remarking on my glow and "how great" I look and it seems really sincere and often enough from people who aren't gratuitous compliment givers, that I try to beleive it. I bet you and I both look much much better than we think we do.

[gentlestrengths]

I've never been one to shower every day, even when I exercise every day. I have never really had strong odor problems either. But this pregnancy I seem to really NEED to shower at least every other day to keep odors at bay!!

My husband is deployed and when we are apart I always LOSE weight. He comes home, and I feel sexy, and svelte, and am always smaller than when he left me. I think we both naturally lose weight when we are apart because he always loses weight too.

This time though - not the case! It's going to be hard when he comes home and I don't feel so beautiful like I normally do!! Granted, he loves my pregnant self too!! Still! It'll be different.

[BlackSheepPDX]

Oof. I feel you. Pregnancy makes my already acne prone skin go completely berzerk, including BACK-ne, which i never had, even as a TEENAGER. HAWT. And I've developed BO during and since my first pregnancy that i never had before either. I used to forget to wear deodorant half the time and it didn't matter. Now? UGH. And I'm in that delightfully lumpy stage of early pregnancy where I just look plump, far more than having any semblance of an identifiable or cute belly. Grrr.

[MaerynPearl]

Theres an old wives tale that your daughter will steal your beauty during your pregnancy.

My own experience is... for some women there is a lot of truth to it.