I’ve discussed this with various male and female friends. My moms side of the family are all naturally beautiful, buxom women. Weight problems have been a problem for nearly all my moms side of the family. Some of my cousins kept the weight off until their late 20’s. But, gained substantial weight after childbirth. Let’s politely say the women in my mom’s family are rubenesque.
I’ve also observed old friends at my high school reunion. The buxom girls that guys drooled over 30 years ago were noticeably heavier than their A and B cup friends. Although, all of us were carrying more weight than we did in high school.
I’m not in any way criticizing anyone for being overweight. I inherited my families weight issues. A lifetime of sports and hiking has kept my weight manageable. Otherwise I’d be a lot more than 30lbs over my ideal weight. Rubenesque women were adored by Renaissance painters and were considered more sensual & desirable than thin women.
Think of people you know. Do naturally buxom woman have more difficulties with weight gain? If so, why??
I think that more fat women will have large boobs than slim women do. Because, hey, we are bigger.
That said, the boob to waist ratio doesn’t seem to factor in. In other words, most fat women I know that have big boobs have an even larger waistline. Which, as far as sexiness to me, cancels out the big boobs.
I think “big boobs = big waistline” is misleading, after reading your explanation.
I find the actual question to be interesting. IF it is true that busty women are more prone to weight gain (or will gain weight more easily than non-busty women), is there some common component? Slower metabolism (metabolism that is likely to slow more than the average person’s, I mean), something else?
small waist/hip ratio does not necessarily equal hourglass. I have big boobs, a (relatively) small waist, and some childbearing hips and a substantial ass. But I would consider myself pear-shaped rather than hourglass because my hips and butt are substantially bigger than my boobs.
Is there any woman whose waist isn’t smaller than her hips?
When I was young, I wore a size 32 DDD bra, which was not really adequate. My pant size was 6 petite, my top size was 10. I was these sizes until I was 45. Menopause was a bitch.
I think that boobs are one of the least reliable indicators of overall body type and/or propensity for weight gain.
For one, they are made up mostly of fat, so when someone (lol, I mean a woman…but wait, MEN can get “boobs” too, so…:p) gains weight, their boobs tend to get bigger. So yes, a pretty large percentage of heavier/fatter women have larger boobs.
For another, it is quite possible to have larger breasts and be slender everywhere else. My neice (by marriage) is one such “mutant”…a ridiculous bra size in the triple digits but tall and very slim overall. TINY waist and hips. It’s genetics…I suspect my daughter will be the same way.
Me, I was a 38 C by age 13 but not fat. My body type, which is similar to my mother’s and maternal grandmother’s, is more or less straight up and down, with not a great deal of dramatic differentiation between the waist and hips. What I wouldn’t GIVE for big hips and a tiny waist! Even when my waist was 26", my hips were only about 32 or so. OK, some some significant difference but not enough to produce those dramatic curves. I tend to look like a boy with boobs when I’m skinny.
When I gain weight, the first place it goes is my boobs (and the first place I lose it when I do). The second is my midsection/belly (so yes, my waist tends to get big at the same time as my boobs do). My hips, ass and legs stay skinny. :rolleyes:
My mom told me once that all the women on my dad’s side of the family had big boobs, hips and butts. She didn’t mention their waist to hip ratio, but the general gist was BIG women overall.
Overall, I wouldn’t say it’s “usually true”, just often true but perhaps due to other factors than a direct relationship between waist size and breast size.
Okay, I guess my powers of observation leave something to be desired. I just assumed that even big bellied women had asses that would balance out the tummies in terms of waist/hip ratio.
Sorry to be all artarded about this, but does anyone have a pic so I could see what a woman with a bigger waist than hip measurement would look like?
But my grandmother had an hourglass figure. When she was 24 her measurements were 40-24-38. I’m not commenting on other women. (When I was the same age I was 38-24-36 - very hourglass-y.)
And yes. There are plenty of people who develop enough tummy that their waist measurement is larger than their hips. They gain weight in their tummy, not their ass.
I guess I just threw that out there because I often see “hourglass” as a synonym for “hippy” and it’s not. I wasn’t sure if you were aware of the distinction. Obvs, you are, though.
Breasts are mostly made of fat so it’s odd to have very little fat everywhere except two large fat deposits on your chest. OF COURSE there are exceptions (especially online it seems), but I believe it is true for the most part so I picked yes.
So, I was googling all these different types, and this one website kept popping up that had clothing advice for different body types. It was a little bitchier than most “dress for your type” websites, but not in a self-aware snarky way, more in an old-gramma-who-doesn’t-have-tact way.
Anyways, for pears it said something like, “Pear women are usually poorly dressed but don’t have to be. Hillary Clinton is a good example of a well-dressed pear-shaped woman.”
I think truly large women should come up with a different word to describe themselves, if they feel sexy. I think ‘big mama’ has a certain sexy ring to it, but I can see how large women may want something that sounds softer than that. Trying to use ‘curvy’ or ‘hour-glass’ isn’t fooling anyone. May as well give those terms up and jump on a different one. BBW is out there, but I think we (large women) need something catchier.
I tend to look like a boy with boobs when I’m skinny.
