Dimple lovin'

Jessica Simpson, Demi Lovato, John Travolta and even that girl from Hollyoaks has one. It’s been noted in Friends as ‘an ass in the chin’ and in Sex and the City: ‘when parents have sex and it dents the baby when a woman is pregnant.’

Yes, the infamous bum chin.

Now, I don’t know the official reason as to why people have dimples, all I know is some are cute and some aren’t.

I’m used to mine now - kind of - but when someone acknowledges the dimple, I want to wrap it up and hide it from the world.

The other day someone noted my bum chin: “aww, your chin dimple makes you beautiful.”

Quick as a flash I’m hiding it as if it has caused offence. Of course it was a compliment, but it’s the fact the chin has been noted. (I'd like to note here the person who said this is currently in the process of a sex change, so it made it all the better hearing it from a soon-to-be girl.)

I only know one other person with a dimple in their chin; luckily his is a lot deeper so I feel a bit better. When I see him I do compliment on the dimple and give him a high-five like we’re in the dimple club. [There might actually be a club...]

Everyone loves Cheryl Cole’s cheek dimples, but unfortunately, chin dimples don’t seem to have the same effect. Heck, some people even have surgery to get the dimples.

Urban dictionary never fails to amuse with their witty description of a chin dimple: A vertical slit in ones chin that resembles a shaved nut sack and is large enough to park a mini-van inside.

If you do have a dimple, be proud. It’s a beauty feature after all.