Does my 7 year old look too thin? Pic attached.

[Sunbeamsandshadows]

I have severe health anxiety and find it very hard to be objective so please be gentle with me.
My dd7 is very prone to picking up viruses - always has been. Various tests over
the years have shown nothing apart from viruses
and no underlying conditions. She is petite
for age but always has been, but I can’t help but feel she looks so slim now it’s now thin not slim and not healthy looking
☹️I’m aware I do all I can to get her to eat higher fat foods but she naturally is more
of a grazer and loves vegetables and fruit and would always choose them over higher fat snacks.
this picture was taken at a pool party last
week and while I obviously can’t include the other kids there they all look so much bigger than her - not in Height but much much thicker legs and rounder bellies and just look so healthy! literally both her legs = the width of one of the other girl’s
leg.
I just wanted an objective opinion on whether I’m over obsessing and she’s fine if slim, or if you’d be querying why she’s so thin given I try and feed
her up constantly.
thank you ☺️

She doesn’t look particularly thin to me - she doesn’t look overweight either, but not thin enough for it to be worthy of comment, let alone unhealthily thin. Just average.

She looks very similar to my DD7 who is on lowish end of BMI but still strong and healthy. It can be a worry when they get ill when they are already slim, but they soon put it back on. I really wouldn’t worry at all.

She has slim limbs, but I'd say that her trunk is entirely average. She even has a tummy (which is more than I did at that age, I was basically a string bean).

So yes, go to sleep. She's fine.

I can't imagine why you would post that picture of your daughter on the internet at midnight.
I am a very suspicious person.

I'd guess she was about in the middle of the healthy range. Kids aren't supposed to have round bellies and thick legs! The food you posted sounds a lot to me - certainly far more than my dd(8) could eat.

She's fine

Diet sounds fine too

I agree with pp. She has slim limbs but a normal body. She looks perfectly fine OP, so the other children are probably erring towards the not slim end iyswim.

Go to sleep, she's okay

It doesn’t sound amazing! Not much fruit and veg. But fine to eat at a party, or as a one-off.

My 6.5 year old is much skinnier. She is under a dietician, but the dietician isn't too worried (yet).

I wouldn't be concerned if I were you

She looks a normal height/weight to me. It's better to be slender than over weight.

Wouldn't consider her too slim/unhealthy at all. She looks fine.
I'd be more concerned about the child whose legs are the width of both of your dd's legs. That sounds unhealthy.

She doesn't look underweight / too thin at all - she's totally average or normal.

Please go and get help for your anxiety before you pass it onto your DD and it turns into an eating disorder.

Please get help for your eating disorder.

She looks a perfect size and weight. Very similar to my daughter at her age and even now my daughter is 12 she is slim

Why on earth would you post a picture of your 7yr old in a swimming costume on the internet??? Blurring her face is irrelevant, what an awful thing to do

@Sunbeamsandshadows You cannot delete any posts on or pictures on Mumsnet!

No she looks perfectly normal for a healthy active child

So long as you offer enough food

Ie if your DC finish off their plate of food make sure there is more food to access such as chopped carrots, cucumber and tomatoes on the table in case they're still hungry or some bread or something

I would just add that you should be careful about the messages you may be explicitly or implicitly giving to your daughter. My brother was "the thin one" whom my mother always tried to fatten up. He never learned to moderate his appetite and now as a sedentary adult is very overweight. I was the "sturdy one" and my mother always monitored my eating to make sure I didn't eat "too much". (I actually wasn't overweight at all but I believed I was.) Cue a lifetime of disordered eating and body hatred. My mother thought she was doing the right thing.

My niece is 8 and is thinner and is healthy by all accounts. So no I don't think she is underweight she looks healthy

Mine was even more slim, like the skin just sat over bones. She always has been, even as a baby there was no chub, she was just skinny. It worried me for years. She's almost twelve and perfectly healthy but still has this very very slim build. Now I figure that she's inherited her Grandma's build and definitely nothing from my side of the family (at 60 she was about 6st wet through, as she was her whole life). As long as she's eating 3 meals a day and healthy then it's probably just how she's built.

She looks healthy to me. Height might make a difference. I’m 5 foot nothing. DD is only a couple of inches off now. Genetics are weird.

Look fine size wise to me. All my kids are on the skinner end of normal struggled to put weight on and still do in teenage years. Sorry you’ve had so much abuse from others Op

@sprigatito safeguarding doesn't have a day off...but well done for your witty comment