# Britney Spears' wide throat **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 1, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-spears-wide-throat/324373 "2005-10-01T20:48:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-spears-wide-throat/324373/1 "2005-10-01T20:48:29Z")
Bizarre title, serious question. An associate today mentioned that she had heard the reason that Britney Spears (apparently) has quite a wide neck/throat is due to so much singing training at an early age, developing her vocal chords. It sounded rather odd, so I wondered if any professional singers/teachers could comment. I know professional singers develop their diaphram, but aren’t the vocal chords fairly tiny? Even trained, would they really make a singer’s throat/neck noticeably bigger? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-spears-wide-throat/324373/2 "2005-10-01T21:16:46Z")
I’m going to avoid the obvious joke here. Wouldn’t all singers who started at an early age have similarly-sized thorats? ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-spears-wide-throat/324373/3 "2005-10-01T21:47:50Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > I’m going to avoid the obvious joke here. > > Wouldn’t all singers who started at an early age have similarly-sized thorats? Well so one would think, but perhaps muscles build up differently in different singers. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2005, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-spears-wide-throat/324373/4 "2005-10-01T21:52:20Z")
Fine, then, if no one else will say it. Britney Spears has a wide throat due to a lot of stretching of it. We’ll let the interpretation of that as an exercise for the reader. ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-spears-wide-throat/324373/5 "2005-10-01T21:55:41Z")
I don’t think it’s been established that she has a wider throat than average. Is he referring to her trachea? How exactly would this be stretched by singing? ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2005, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-spears-wide-throat/324373/6 "2005-10-01T22:02:17Z")
Britney’s singing voice happens to be on the lower end of the female range, partly due to a naturally wider throat and probably slightly-longer-than-average vocal cords. Men with deep voices also tend to have wider throats than men with higher voices. That said, I’ve never noticed anything unusual about Britney’s throat. ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-spears-wide-throat/324373/7 "2005-10-01T22:11:19Z")
> [@Phase42](#): > > Men with deep voices also tend to have wider throats than men with higher voices. Now that is interesting. IIRC, the teachers that sang tenor in the school choir tended fit that, as compared to the bass singers. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2005, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britney-spears-wide-throat/324373/8 "2005-10-01T23:48:21Z")
[It’s not that wide is it?](http://fuggingitup.blogspot.com/2004/10/her-fug-prerogative.html)