Swimming pool chic

[sawyl]

If Rebecca Adlington, super olympic swimmer, is worried that she has cellulite and thinks her bum looks big, then there truly is no hope for the world. But I know what she means about the horror of swimming fashions:

Being in a swimming costume so much doesn't help — it feels like you're hardly wearing anything. When I was younger, I didn't mind, but sometimes you can get a little self-conscious.

The thing I really dislike about my local pool is the way the walk from the changing rooms to the water snakes around past the viewing area which, given the times when I usually go, always seems to be packed with mums watching their kids take lessons. Perhaps I ought to find the leering flattering, but it's actually deeply mortifying.