I guess it's my turn. Be afraid, be very afraid!
That photo was taken last December, I have shorter hair now.
@Katja: A young woman who posts interesting replies with an underlying sense of humour is one I would care to meet, even as third fiddle to Mr Gabo and Ozrat (any more fiddles and we shall be able to start Ye Ol' Order Country Band, with "Maybe" as a feature song). If I may, you really are quite beautiful.
I was often the target of unwelcome comments and the occasionnal more physical attention by "runny-nosed brats" as a child and young adolescent, for I was two years younger than everyone else in my class and fully bespectacled. Ignoring them seemed the best solution, but it doesn't help self-esteem. It is indeed most irritating that such behaviour should have an influence all one's life.
"Tiny portions of their seven-course meals" in France, Old School Role Player? Perhaps in 'haute cuisine' restaurants, but otherwise they seem to go for quantity over three courses, plus coffee, spread over four hours (yawn!). The vast majority of the young women I've met are actually quite thin, they also tend to be rather fussy about what they eat.