9 problems only women with big hips will understand.

When I was 13, I got my first pair of hips.

At first I was excited, because I knew this meant I was on my way to boob-town. Unfortunately, my hips really took off and my breasts have been struggling to keep up ever since.

Although I have come to peace with my larger bottom half (when I realised there was no diet or plastic surgery that could reduce the bone that had grown there), I have had to adjust to a world where big hips are a daily struggle.

Through this struggle I have realised that I am not the only one.  This is a definitive list of all the daily problems us big hipped women are faced with. All you apple, hourglass and straight up and down body types, take note.

1. You are always banging them on furniture when you misjudge their size.

2. You have to buy bikini bottoms and tops separately.

And even then, the top will be slightly too loose, and the bottom just a tad too tight.

3. You are always told they are “child bearing hips”.

Thank you?

4. Squeezing past other people in an aisle is near impossible without hitting them with your hips.

5. A skirt will never stay put, and will instead swivel on your hips or ride up and up and up.

6. Jeans are always big on your waist but tight on your hips.

7. Shopping consultants be like: “this is a good shape for you.. it really balances out your bottom half.”

Thank you, but NOTHING will balance out my bottom half.

8. You can’t wear shift dresses.

9. Seeing any woman with hips in the media makes you fist pump for equal representation.

And intensely scrutinise what they’re wearing so you can finally work out what clothes suit you.

Thank goodness for Mad Men, because now that we have Joan Holloway representing us, big hips just got a whole lot more in vogue.

I know these aren’t the only problems big hipped women have, do you have any other problems that your body type faces?