To ask if you have a thigh gap?

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I need some reassurance that it's quite normal to not have a thigh gap.. it's my biggest problem area!

I'm not much over 5ft tall, weigh around 7st 10.. six 6 due to my small frame but wouldn't say I was slim, probably in proportion, definitely have a bit of a belly and yeah the thighs... as they go up, they curve in together and touch.

I know I'm an idiot.. constantly comparing myself to others and how their legs seem to be not smooshing together at the top!

I'm early thirties but don't remember ever having one.. is it true that the majority of
Women don't and I'm just being overly perfectionist with this?

Yes I know first world problems.. but I feel like I look horrendous in shorts and had to get it off my chest today!

It’s about your hip bone so as my sister found out, going down to 7 stone, no amount of weight loss would give her a thigh gap as she just has really small hips.

I have one when I’m at my slimmest - I don’t have one at the moment but I don’t really care. I still think I look nice in clothes and like the way my figure is.

I'm 5'7", size 8 and have always had a thigh gap. I'm relatively fit and healthy and workout regularly... but I think the thigh gap is due to the way I'm built to be honest. I have a small waist but wide hips. If I didn't have a thigh gap, my thighs would be huge and disproportionate to the rest of me.

I don't think it's something to desire and that it's any "better" than not having one. It's all relative depending on your shape/figure.

I have a thigh gap (when standing with feet touching.

I think it must be to do with hip position because I’m 9 stone and 5”3 so bigger than op. My thighs look pretty chunky too

I'm about your size and I do. However, I didn't before.

I exercised and everything, and honestly my legs were fine. It was only through being ill and being malnourished that I ended up with one. Now I'm back to a healthy weight, but it seems to have hung around, I only really walk for exercise since illness so I wonder if it's that the muscle has regrown in a different way. I know this is somewhat possible as when I used to exercise hard daily, my thigh muscles were healing and where I sat in a certain position every day in a chair, my thigh muscle actually ended up with a slight indent it in on that side due to how I sat...!

It's not a "problem area" it's just your shape!

I have skinny legs but I also have very skinny hips so my thighs have always met in the middle, currently a smaller size 8 on my bottom half but you can't even see any light between them unless I stand with my feet apart!

I have a narrow pelvis. My legs will always touch. Even at peak bodybuilding fitness I only had a tiny triangle of space just under my vulva, and still very much had touching thighs.

IDGAF. 🤷‍♀️

Size 6 here, bmi barely in the healthy range.
No thigh gap. But i think if i lost more weight on my thighs, my bones would be visible.

By asking and caring and discussing this, you are adding to the pressure women feel. Just stop. It doesn’t matter. Why fill your head with it and then encourage other women to.

It’s absolute nonsense

Yes, I do. I'm a size 6. So does a friend of mine who is the same height but a size 12/14. She has very wide hips. As has already been said, it has as much do do with bone structure as slimness.

To be honest, after reading the "Help, I've got chub rub" threads on here, I see it as a positive , particularly in warm weather.

I do, and I don't have wide hips or pelvis, (2 C sections because of being narrow). Size 8 and 5ft 4 and 8 stone 4, so I'm not underweight. I was told it was to do with the tilt of your pelvis. I don't know what the thing is with it though, not many people are going to be seeing the top of your legs. I guess its noticeable in skinning jeans but I would be horrified if someone drew attention to it. It was more noticeable when I was skinny, then I looked ridiculous anyway!

Thigh gaps are one of the most bizarre beauty trends/hangups I've ever heard of. It seems to have been completely fabricated from nowhere. Ten years ago I had never heard of it and now suddenly it's a thing that teenage girls (and apparently some grown women) worry about? Makes about as much sense to me as worrying about the length of your little finger or whether your shoulder blades are perfectly aligned.

I wonder if men fret over whether they have a thigh gap or not 🤔

I have had to google what a thigh gap was, as I had never heard of the term. I do have one, I think. Surely much depends on the shape of your pelvis as to whether you have one or not. It’s not something I ever would think about or would be aware it was meant to be a desired feature.

I don’t have one. 8st 10ins, fit and healthy but my thighs definitely do not have a gap. I’m not worried about it!

I don't have one.
At various times of my life I have been very slim, not so slim and bigger and have never had a thigh gap.
I have a small frame, and I do not have wide hips.

I sometimes look at models with huge thigh gaps and wonder if they are there because they starve themselves or had surgery, or are natural, they do not look natural to me, but odd.

It's down to the width of your hips. I have slim hips, so don't have a gap.

I'm 5' on the nose and slim frame especially hips.

I had a thigh gap at 6st 3lb - I also got accidentally pregnant so whilst borderline underweight wasn't malnourished IYSIM.

Certainly over 7st there is no thigh gap!

I do yes but don’t know anyone else with one so I feel quite self conscious.

I don't think anyone who is a healthy weight has a thigh gap.
I'm naturally slim and after my first child lost a bit too much weight due to breastfeeding and stress - high needs child with multiple allergies and extreme colic/screaming all day long.
At that point I was 5ft 1in and weighed just over 7st and still didn't have a thigh gap

I don't think anyone who is a healthy weight has a thigh gap.

Of course they do!

My daughter (14) says this is an obsession via Instagram that her friends go on about

and grown adults are discussing it on here

Nope. I'm a size 6 with a bmi at the low end of healthy and I've never had one.

I almost have one, literally just one inch at the top touches. I'm size 8, weigh 10 stone,,5'7 (bmi 21/22?), but I'm very muscular.

I can make one by standing weirdly with my feet together but my glutes tensed and my hips slightly tipped back, which is very odd but I'm sure it is possible to create an insta pose that's actually unattainable in real life.

I have a thigh gap but I think it's because I have wide hips. I hadn't noticed I had it until a few people mentioned it to me, and I've noticed that most people's thighs do touch. It really depends on the pelvis/hips I think.

It's just a stupid standard made up by someone on the internet as far as I know. Probably a teenager with body image issues. No offence meant to teenagers with body image issues - I was one - but they're not the best people to take advice from on this sort of thing. I've had so many hang ups over the years, I'm better now but I hated myself. Pick literally any body part and I could tell you at least one thing that was wrong with it and on top of that I'm covered in stretch marks I've had since puberty.

Then I had my daughter six years ago and I don't want to sound cheesy but I saw her perfect body and I've watched her grow and I realised if she ever felt about herself the way I feel about myself, I'd be absolutely devastated. We compare ourselves to fake images of "perfection" and it's so negative and gets us nowhere. Sorry for the mini rant in answer to a straightforward question, I just feel we waste so much time and energy on this stuff and we shouldn't.

If I do the splits