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"I had the most interesting conversation with my friend L. yesterday. She said: &amp;quot;I dread hanging out with M. [a mutual friend] because she just makes me feel fat!&amp;quot; Here&amp;#x27;s the thing, I think her comment was very honest and real. Does your body image fluctuate a little around different people? My friend L., also a new mom, looks great, but she&amp;#x27;s constantly talking about losing her baby weight (which probably isn&amp;#x27;t more than 15 pounds or so). True, she doesn&amp;#x27;t look like Jessica Alba, but she is pretty fit! Even so, she told me--in such an honest way--that she struggles with the way her body image fluctuates around different people. And, for some reason, our friend M. somehow (unintentionally) makes her feel like she&amp;#x27;s 309 pounds. (If I had to analyze this, it would likely be due to the fact that M. is in tip-top shape and is constantly talking about her latest gazillion-mile run.) But it&amp;#x27;s such an interesting thing to think about, isn&amp;#x27;t it? If you step back and are really honest with yourself, do you think your body image changes a little based on who you&amp;#x27;re around? I admit, mine does. I am at a very happy and healthy place, even if I&amp;#x27;m not at my ideal pre-baby weight yet, and I still notice that I feel a little flabby around my fittest friends and just right around my sister, mom, closest friends and husband (not that they&amp;#x27;re out of shape, it&amp;#x27;s just that I feel more accepted somehow with them). So maybe this has less to do with how people look and more to do with some sort of psychological-social phenomenon? (And maybe it has something to do with what Margarita wrote about recently--when you can feel like a supermodel and a sumo wrestler all in the same day.) Tell me about you: Does your body image ever fluctuate in this puzzling way? More reading: *Is it wrong to feel fat when you&amp;#x27;re pregnant? *134 1/2 pounds! Doesn&amp;#x27;t it bug you when the tabloids act like they know exactly how much a star weighs? *Sad, sad: This bride-to-be died trying to get skinny before her wedding More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering for or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;#x27;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow us on Twitter! Photo: iStock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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