She weighs 105lbs...

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The film Angel Face - Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons 1952

During the start he is describing his girlfriend and mentions she is 105lbs

I thought I'd misheard and maybe it was 125lbs but no, 105lbs

Thats 7 and a half stone.

Seems very tiny but AI tells me that is the usual sort of frame and weight to height ratio for actresses in those days. The actress playing the girlfriend was 5'4 apparently. So slight frame but not underweight

I was a bit surprised it was so low a weight.

any actual stats for this or.....? I won't hold my breath given your whole analysis could be summed up as 'if you exclude all short people from your data set then on average people are tall...' Which yeah, no shit sherlock.

Love the thinly veiled racism in suggesting that 'ethnic minorities' don't count as real UK women, as well.

Very few people grow significantly after the age of 18, as well.

So was I until my third baby.

@HobgoblinNorFoulFiend , where I live there is a large proportion of people of south asian heritage and many of the women are shorter than me. Even my north european neighbour is shorter than me.

There are women taller than me but I doubt they are taller than 5'7". There are a few tall slender women but not many.

I weigh that. Same height. BMI might say underweight but I’m not for my frame.

People nowadays are a lot fatter .
105lb was the slimmer end of normal for that height

Never had snacks when I was young and hardly ever had a take away. The small city i grew up in had a MacDonalds and a Kentucky but they were miles away from where i lived so we hardly ever went there. I still don't snack, or hardly and I have to be really hungry. I now live in a city that must have about 5 Macdonalds and the nearest Kentucky is about 5 mins away, near the Subway and over the road from the chip shop and round the corner from the Chinese take away.

Speak for yourself. I weigh the same as I did at 16.

the average height of adult women 20-45 in the UK is around 5’9”. For men it is 5’11-6’0”.

Wow. What are the odds of living in a wealthier than average area with very few ethnic minorities and rarely meeting these average women of 5' 9". Also frequently meeting men who are taller than 6'.

I must be a statistical anomaly.

@iwishitwouldstartraining , you live in Lilliput too?

5’9 is absolutely not the current average height for women in the UK. I think there is actually statistical evidence that British children are becoming shorter than their mainland European counterparts.

Im 5ft 2 and weight about 7 stone 6. I’m thin but not unhealthy so. I’ve been like this my whole life. Surely it’s not that uncommon is it?

I’m 5’5”, I was between 7st3 and 7st7 from my teens to late 20s. A size 6 with boobs. I was underweight at the lower end but I look fine at 7st 7. I wouldn’t want to go back to that now. I’m happy at 9st.

I’m 5ft 4 and when I fell pregnant I was told I was underweight and needed to change my diet. I was 7st.
i was a size 6-8
and didn’t seem thin or smaller than my friends and was surprised to be underweight.

I’m 5’4” and weighed 7 1/2 stone in the 80’s till I had children. It was pretty normal and many of my friends weighed around the same

A maternity book from around this time had some comment about the average woman being 7 and a half stone, and a man, who worked in a heavy manual labour job, was ten something. Admittedly women weren't "supposed" to be muscly, even in the 80s/90s, compare He-Man and She-Ra-her arms are completely straight with no muscle, and muscle weighs more than fat.

I was that height and weight aged 17-19 and in a size 10 - mid-80s 10, that is. It's thin but not ridiculously so.

My Grandad died 10 years ago, at almost 100. He never snacked and if you offered him a biscuit or cake or even a 'healthy' snack in the afternoon he would say 'don't be ridiculous, I'll be eating dinner at 6.' Developing an appetite was spoken of positively, never eat something to ruin your appetite, work up an appetite, you've a great appetite god bless you (to me). He always emptied his plate and looked critically at those that didn't. My mother was raised that way and praised us for eating, extra marks if you asked for seconds. The problem arose when people of that mentality lived in an era of UPFs, dinners prepared in a rush, late night shops, convenience foods etc. That led to her raising two obese children.

The average height for women is not 5' 9 😂
I have exactly one friend that height and she modelled!

Same height as you and I'm slightly more likely to be taller rather than shorter than other adult non-elderly women.

@Dontlletmedownbruce , I think slim people eat differently. My slim friends and family eat slowly and don't eat between meals, eat lots of veg and fruit.
The overweight ones eat things like cakes, crisps, biscuits and beige food and wolf their food.

This is only based on people I know but it's consistent.
(I'm not completely virtuous - I had some chocolate after lunch. )

Meanwhile, in the real world (per NHS)

Women
Age 16-24: 163.7cm
Age 25-34: 164.4cm
Age 35-44: 164.3cm
Age 45-54: 163.2cm
Age 55-64: 162cm
Age 65-74: 159.8cm
Age 75+ : 157.1cm

Even the tallest age demographic is shorter than 5'5".

Im almost that height and I was the same weight as a teen.
My mum always made fat jokes about me, and by the age of 21 I was closer to 8 stone and got told to lose weight by a male gp too 😂🙄🙄

Yes. It's not that people were underweight then; but many people are overweight now, and it's considered 'normal'.

I was about 7 stone when I finished school, then up to 8 stone by my mid 20s and have stayed the same ever since, I'm now 60. Not underweight, just healthy.

Average height of UK women (however they are formed) has been 5'4 for many decades. I think an increase from 5'2.

The average height of most women is no where near 5'9

I just checked, and the tallest women in Europe are in Groningen in the Netherlands. The average height for a young, native Dutch woman there is about 5 ft 7.5, STILL not 5.9, and they're in fact the tallest female population group in the world.