To think someone that’s 7 stone and 5’4 is tiny

why are you asking? Are you worried about someone? Have you lost weight and want to hear how tiny you are?

That was more or less my weight until I had children.

You would be very slim indeed, yes. I'm 5 2" and the only way I'll ever be 7 stone is when I'm dead or in a dungeon being starved to death by captors, but for some people it will be their normal, natural default and healthy weight.

I have a friend who always looks impossibly, implausibly tiny to me but she eats, she's fit and healthy, very sporty, runs a lot and is just naturally built like a little sparrow. She doesn't look anorexic though, her face isn't hollow, her bones don't stick out horribly, she doesn't look in any way scarily thin, just very very slim. When she turns sideways I marvel at how she can actually fit all her organs in her torso.

Unless it’s a child and you have genuine concerns, I think you need to MYOB. I get sooooo fed up of people acting like my weight/size is up for discussion.

There is a really interesting podcast on this someone on here recommended - diabolical liars- about the Hollywood skinniness trend. They state it’s simplistic to say that someone of a low or normal weight could continue to lose significantly on WLI and that the evidence doesn’t back this up. Whilst people who aren’t overweight can lose weight on WLI it’s limited and they won’t just keep losing until they disappear (ie it’s unrealistic to suggest they are behind someone like Ariana’s size)

How old are they? For a teen they could be on the lighter side of healthy. For an adult, they’re underweight and it could lead to health issues. Unless it’s a loved one though and your concern is genuine, then it’s none of your business and calling them ‘tiny’ doesn’t help.

Not everyone who loses weight are using injections 🤦🏻‍♀️

My DD is that height and even less than 7 stones. She is 15 though and looks perfectly healthy with good skin and hair with a normal appetite.And she's half Asian so her BMI can be lower than UK values.

I’m 5ft3 and at 8 stone 4 my rib cage could be seen across my chest - despite having a very petite ‘frame’. So I’d expect someone almost a stone lighter and a little taller to be very slim, yes.

But you’ll get lots of “It’s fine” and “It’s depends…” on Mumsnet.

They are slightly underweight. About 9lb under if white.
It's not scary underweight though unless you know something we don't and I'm not sure you'd be so worried if someone was a bit overweight.

I had a friend who was very slim in her 20s and she's in her 50s now and she's still very slim. She was a size 6 when I knew her in her 20s. The only time I saw her bigger was when she was pregnant - she had big babies. She did have issues with food - she was the kind of person that if someone made her a meal she would eat but otherwise not much

They are probably underweight but not dangerously so, they are only moderately underweight based on a single metric, BMI, which was designed for evaluating populations not individuals. Without information on the age, sex and health status of the person, to declare someone 'clinically underweight' is simply incorrect. They do not need to start undergoing medical procedures just because they are a bit thin, if they even are.

I recognise that your post comes from a good place because of your personal experience and I genuinely hope your child is doing better, but it is also scare mongering.

I would also say - sorry to double post - that in my experience there's a big difference between 7 stone 0 at 5'4 and, say, 7 and a half stone. 7 and a half is a couple of pounds underweight but many women can go that low without looking gaunt, which is much harder to do (especially as an adult not a teen) at 7 stone nothing.

If you're 5'4 (I know this because I am) then medically speaking the bottom of the healthy range is 7 stone 10. I'm bang on 8 stone at that height, small build and certainly still look pretty small.
I feel people on this site tend to give a lot of allowances for why being underweight can actually be healthy for someone in a way they wouldn't for someone who was, say, half a stone overweight.
If this person is 7 stone nothing then their BMI is very low and if they are trying to put weight on and failing then they should discuss that with a doctor. I know I sound very black and white on this but I've been about that weight as an adult at that height and I was very unwell looking back, but like some other posters on here I was telling myself that some people just can't help being teeny tiny.

Exactly!

I have had comments about my weight all my life - mostly from complete strangers - even when I wasn't overweight. I'm not super slim even when Im at a size I'm comfortable with. (12-14). I've had more than one person (always men unfortunately) shouting "fatty" at me out of car windows

I am 5'4" and weighed about 7 st until around 30 when I got pregnant with my first child. After pregnancy and breastfeeding I was around 7 and a quarter stone. After my second child, around 7 and a half stone and now, after menopause, I'm around 8 stone.

i have a small frame, eat healthily and well. I'm just a smaller person than most people. I hate it when people suggest that I have an eating problem, or that I should see a doctor. It's none of their business. I don't tell larger people that they should lose weight or seek medical help. That's none of my business. If I lived in the 1950s no one would bat an eye at my size.

My mum is very slim and has struggled to put weight on her entire life. She's also been really underweight a few times due to horrible stress when she was being harassed at work. She doesn't have a terrible diet - she's always eaten breakfast for example. She was around 8 stones for a while but some stress took her weight down again - she's around five three in height

I have the opposite issue. I struggle to keep weight off and I have had a fairly big injury in the last 18 months so I'm bigger than I generally would be

I am 5'4" and 50kg, 7.8 stone. This is my healthy weight, I have a small frame and do try to build muscle but don't gain easily. I maintain this weight on 1800 to 2000 kcal a day. I think I would be unhealthy at 7 stone.

@Ilovedogs10 unless there’s a typo in your height you were severely underweight, even with a “tiny frame”. I’m glad you felt well and energetic at the time, but you were still severely underweight at a BMI of less than 15.

I have a friend like this too. In the nearly 30 years I’ve known her (and lived in same house a one point) she’s been the same weight, eats well, is very active and very healthy. It makes sense when you meet her family, it seems genetic. I wouldn’t have believed it either but it’s true.
I however am huge, and you can see that in my family too 😁 So we are like little and large when we’re out together.

I was 5ft7 and 7st naturally in my teens/young adulthood.

I was slim but I had no weight related health issues and I was a size 12 (never get the everyone skinny must be 'size 0' comments, size at low weight is based on bone frame not weight).

I had always been like that (was a very tall skinny child). I did not diet or do anything to achieve it and I was active and as well as I have ever been.

I only ever gain weight when pregnant, put on a stone per pregnancy and now at peak 'BMI' and 'healthy weight' ironically have far more weight and food related issues now.

I will likely never be 7 stone again (trying to diet down to that would be ill advised) but I was that size originally completely naturally and no 'worry' was needed.

If the weight is being lost for unknown reasons, an illness or extreme dieting/lifestyle change then worry, but its not a worry if someone is always just naturally 'skinny'.

I was this weight and half an inch taller as a teenager. I ate very well including chocolate bars, crisps and crème caramel (shop bought). But I walked a lot and didn’t incessantly snack.

I do think I might have been lacking some vitamins as I got the occasional stye and lots of mouth ulcers. 5 a day wasn’t a thing then.

I was 5 foot and 6 and a half stone when I was in my late 20s/30s. Tiny frame and always been petite- never ill and energetic and fit. Healthy appetite but didn’t really snack.

I’m 5”1 and look gaunt at 7 stone. 7 and a half is when I look my ‘best’