How Do People Really Feel about Their Bodies?

Rosie Mercado hits the streets of Hollywood to find out what people think about their bodies, both the good and the bad.

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[GIguy]

I've never liked my appearance, EVER! As a gay man, it's even worse, because in the gay community, your looks are your licence, and never have I encountered more superficial people then those in the gay community. I can't help the way I was born, but because of battling colon cancer and Crohn's disease for the last 28 years (I'm now 48), and the countless treatments and secondary chronic diseases I've developed, by abdomen will never be flat, but covered in scars, and a stoma, showing my intestine. I do my best to keep myself in shape, but after 33 brutal surgeries, leaving me with only 5% of my GI tract, my body, and my face, shows the effects. I've always hated my face and my double chin! At the height of my surgeries, I went down to 127lbs, and I'm normally 180lbs and I'm 5'10" tall, I STILL had the double chin, and big ugly nose that I'd give anything to get rid of. But now that I've been forced to live on long term disability, I could never afford the plastic surgery I desperately want to I can go out in public without hiding my body and face. I also lost all my hair during my chemo and radiation, but it never grew back....these diseases have totally destroyed my life, and just want to totally give up. The world, especially our society in North America, is so superficial, where we're judged solely on our looks, it's not bloody fair! If your hot, with a beautiful face and body, you're treated so much better (this holds true for men and women), and are given opportunities most of us would never have. But, if your born with a double chin, no butt, and go bald with a body covered in scars, all I get is either no looks, or dirty looks, and I HATE IT!!! I'd do anything to get my hair back, my scars gone, and my chin and nose both fixed so I could go outside happy, instead of hiding in the house. I don't know what I've done in my life to deserve the absolute hell I've endured, and continue to, but I'll tell you, despite anti-depressants and therapy, I still think of ending it all more often then I'm willing to admit. Just once I wish I could be thought of as a good looking man, that turns heads, not stomachs. My own father teased me I have the perfect face for radio when I told him I wanted to go into show biz. (I love to sing, not well, but live it anyways). I know he was joking, but it's still hurtful, and although he said it decades ago, it's never left my mind. So I'm left with total misery, no intestine (during those 33 surgeries, they removed my rectum and stitched it closed, entire large bowel, and almost all of my small bowel), a face that makes me look like I'm 600lbs when I'm only 180lbs, with a nose you could land an airbus on! Life totally sucks, had it not been for my parents, who are both still alive and who depend on my help to survive, or for my spouse, I'd have killed myself years ago. But lately things have gotten so bad, I'm beginning to just say screw it, and off myself anyways. I care, deeply, for the few people who truly love me, but I'm now thinking why should I keep myself alive when the only thing I have to look forward to is unbearable agony, both physical, and financial torment (battling these diseases for so long has left me in financial ruin). I've been forced to sell everything I owned just to pay rent, used up every penny I had to survive, and have been forced to go on welfare, unemployment insurance, borrowing and begging family for money, and disability, which is nothing, leaving me stuck for life, as I'm just too sick to work ever again. The worst is, I hear "you don't look sick" every day of my life, because with my clothes on, no one can see the nightmare of scars on my body, leading people to accuse me of faking it all for attention or for money, which just makes my life even more miserable. If you're healthy, thank your lucky stars, I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy, and as I said, it's totally destroyed my life. As a teen, I was happy, outgoing, and had planned to be a professional singer by this point in my life, but instead, I'm embarrassed to show my face in public, and have zero hope for the future. Not sure why I'm telling total strangers all this, but I'm just so fed up, I desperately want everything to end. This society is so cruel to people in my situation, so I think I'll just so everyone a favour, and end it all. There's a very high bridge a few blocks from my apartment, it's looking more and more appealing....thanks for letting me vent.

[venomusdrake]

I love my eyebrows, eyes and well pretty much my face and hair.

[greenluxuries]

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[Mimori_Kiriyu]

Dude, humans are ugly. Period. Your real body is in heaven. Sheesh.