Awesome! I never wore a bikini until I turned 45. For me, it was the opposite, I was thin, and my ribs stuck out further than my non-existent boobs when I was young. I took the kids to Florida and I met a woman at a water park and her attitude was so awesome. She was a big girl, a very big girl in a bikini and she was perfectly confident and we got to chatting and she teased me a bit about my giant t shirt over my 1 piece, and said, "it's hot and ain't nobody worried about how you look anyhow, do you." It stuck with me. So here I am, 50 now, stretchmarks and all, and I'll rock my bikini the way my mother, and the younger me, couldn't. Loved your story.