You finally learnt to let go. I think us body/sex positive get to that point eventually. It must be a way of psychologically letting go of early bullying as kids and teens.

Even as a male I felt that way for years, the mickey-taking of your peers, my gappy teeth, my eye that was damaged by a blow, became getting overweight and hiding until you find a way to beat it. Then when I started working in Asia, where the numbers game worked in my favour the gappy teeth became "Buddha Smile", and overweight began to go, the wonky eye, became "Handsome man" and my beliefs changed to love myself more.

Good on yer for going for it.