# Belly.Lines’s Substack BellyLines is about impowering apple shaped women, changing the current perception of belly fat and apple shape, + encouringing better body image for all! Page: Feed: --- ## [The Mental Drawers: marketing, beauty standards and self perception](https://bellylines.substack.com/p/the-mental-drawers-marketing-beauty) _2025-12-27 · more than a belly_ My conversation with AI ## [I’ve gained more weight, again](https://bellylines.substack.com/p/ive-gained-more-weight-again) _2025-12-06 · more than a belly_ Thank you perimenopause. Thank you life. ## [Beauty’s new language](https://bellylines.substack.com/p/beautys-new-language) _2025-11-15 · more than a belly_ If you want change, change the language you use. ## [More than a belly](https://bellylines.substack.com/p/more-than-a-belly) _2025-11-08 · more than a belly_ We can only be that which exists in language, so, for a very long time I have been a woman with a belly, with a big stomach, apple shaped. ## [Be mad, be sad, be angry, but don’t be ashamed or ever feel guilty of your body](https://bellylines.substack.com/p/be-mad-be-sad-be-angry-but-dont-be) _2025-11-01 · more than a belly_ A poem ## [Introduction to a book I'll never publish](https://bellylines.substack.com/p/introduction-to-a-book-ill-never) _2025-10-19 · more than a belly_ or at least not yet ;) ## [Ready or not, perimenopause is here](https://bellylines.substack.com/p/ready-or-not-perimenopause-is-here) _2025-10-13 · more than a belly_ what will happen to my belly? ## [I think I look best now, when I have some meat on my bones and I’m a bit filled out](https://bellylines.substack.com/p/i-didnt-look-pretty-when-i-was-thin) _2025-10-09 · more than a belly_ confidence boost poem ## [Shoulding myself - present](https://bellylines.substack.com/p/shoulding-myself-present) _2025-10-08 · more than a belly_ I really should keep a running journal. ## [I will never have a flat belly!](https://bellylines.substack.com/p/i-will-never) _2025-10-05 · more than a belly_ Should we let go of ideal we will never reach? ## [Retro Grid Dungeon Crawler (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/zUFC9cCGv0Q9) _2025-10-05 · **Sponsored**_ Retro grid movement with first-person combat, loot and skill-tree progression. ## [we are not the only ones](https://bellylines.substack.com/p/we-are-not-the-only-ones) _2025-10-02 · more than a belly_ You are not the only one who's feeling like you don't belong in this room because you don't even know what the people in this room are talking about, and you're just sitting here, feeling so worthless and out of place, even if it is not your job to know the things that they know, and you just have to sit there. ## [The shaped they never showed us](https://bellylines.substack.com/p/the-shaped-they-never-showed-us) _2025-09-28 · more than a belly_ and the shame that come with it ## [When the fear stops you from doing what you love](https://bellylines.substack.com/p/when-the-fear-stops-you-from-doing) _2025-09-13 · more than a belly_ like a musician who plays wonderfully but has stage fright ## [If you told me this would be me, I wouldn’t have believed you](https://bellylines.substack.com/p/if-you-told-me-this-would-be-me-i) _2025-08-31 · more than a belly_ get to know me better ## [Ode to empty page](https://bellylines.substack.com/p/ode-to-empty-page) _2025-08-23 · more than a belly_ Emptying my soul on paper ## [Women put themselves into boxes without even realising it](https://bellylines.substack.com/p/women-put-themselves-into-boxes-without) _2025-08-17 · more than a belly_ When the power of language becomes a curse ## [Live with BellyLines](https://bellylines.substack.com/p/live-with-bellylines) _2025-07-21 · more than a belly_ A recording from BellyLines's live video [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/168846316/482afd7a57369c8151a9fa8c7113f9c0.mp3) ## [I'm not sure I'll ever come back](https://bellylines.substack.com/p/im-not-sure-ill-ever-come-back) _2025-07-20 · more than a belly_ Hello my dears, ## [The one who ended up not hating her belly](https://bellylines.substack.com/p/the-one-who-ended-up-not-hating-her) _2025-07-12 · more than a belly_ A version of me in some other reality ## [World's cheapest GPUs, deployed fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/wAvOc2wWJR6T) _2025-07-12 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy a live GPU-backed API in minutes for under $10 ## [Here is why we really go on a diets](https://bellylines.substack.com/p/here-is-why-we-really-go-on-a-diets) _2025-07-05 · more than a belly_ Here me out - I’ve just had one of those light bulb moments and I’m bursting with this newest realization