How do you get that gap between your thighs

MyChocolateDiet

Uh oh?

Dragn77

For the opposite of the scale. ... I'm 191lbs, 5'10, 45" hips, 27" thighs and I have thigh gap. It's just the way my body is structured. Granted it's a sliver of a gap now at my current size, but it's undeniable.

Really not cool to see comments on here against the way someone is naturally built and saying it's weird /unattractive, or comparing it to deformation like foot binding. I'm secure about it now and really don't even think about it anymore, but when I was younger I was very self consciOus about it. It's not something anyone who has it can help or do anything about.

Really, that kind of negativity is exactly like saying someone tall is weird or with a certain head shape or whatever. It's cool to have preference and to love what you're born as and working with, but there's no excuse really for being insensitive and making derogatory remarks against others for who they are.

Anyway! It is what it is. I know too well there are people who can accept and respect others and people who can't so nothing new to me.

As for the original question, as others have said, thigh gap is something you have or don't have. Mine gets more or less prominent with weight change, but it hasn't gone away. Someone not structured for it won't have one no matter how much they gain or lose. Just gotta learn to love what you're working with!

HotDolphinMama

I am laughing at myself - cause I never knew I was supposed to want the gap between your thighs! LOL I have wide hips & thunder thighs (since I was pubescent), so I never aspired to the gap. I just wanted to not start a forest fire from those suckers rubbing together! LOL

JustJennie1

Uh oh?

Uh photo shop much?

JustJennie1

For the opposite of the scale. ... I'm 191lbs, 5'10, 45" hips, 27" thighs and I have thigh gap. It's just the way my body is structured. Granted it's a sliver of a gap now at my current size, but it's undeniable.

Really not cool to see comments on here against the way someone is naturally built and saying it's weird /unattractive, or comparing it to deformation like foot binding. I'm secure about it now and really don't even think about it anymore, but when I was younger I was very self consciOus about it. It's not something anyone who has it can help or do anything about.

Really, that kind of negativity is exactly like saying someone tall is weird or with a certain head shape or whatever. It's cool to have preference and to love what you're born as and working with, but there's no excuse really for being insensitive and making derogatory remarks against others for who they are.

Anyway! It is what it is. I know too well there are people who can accept and respect others and people who can't so nothing new to me.

As for the original question, as others have said, thigh gap is something you have or don't have. Mine gets more or less prominent with weight change, but it hasn't gone away. Someone not structured for it won't have one no matter how much they gain or lose. Just gotta learn to love what you're working with!

People don't understand that at all.

It most definitely has to do with how wide your hips are. I worked with a girl who had very wide hips. I don't even think her knees touched!

Mostly the people asking this question want to have skinny thighs that don't touch. The people who respond on the grossness of it are just being rude. It's all genetics. I don't have wide hips and no matter how thin my thighs are they will always touch.

RedfishGuy

No one ACTUALLY cares about thigh gaps.

Au contraire. I care, I'm a thigh gap aficianado.

Dragn77

You're right and I really appreciate that. And now that you mention it, when I'm standing straight up my knees don't touch! Lol

etoiles_argentees

it's sexy!

looking knock kneed is sexy? ok...whatevs.....

noooooo... genu valgum is not sexy.

ILiftHeavyAcrylics

Q angle: angle subtended by a line drawn to the vertical bisection of femur and a line drawn from the lateral margin of pelvis to the sagittal plane of the knee joint (Figure 1); normally 15° in men (>15° in women due to wider female pelvis); excessive pronators show an increased Q angle
http://img.tfd.com/elsevier/thumbs/f17-01-9780443103780.jpg
Figure 1: Q angle. See text entry for description of Q angle.
Illustrated Dictionary of Podiatry and Foot Science by Jean Mooney © 2009 Elsevier Limited. All rights reserved.

Basically the wider the Q the greater your risk of knee and hip injury. If you have wide hips, but a small Q angle - ie your femoral head is directly above your knee - you get a thigh gap. Q between 22 and 9 is normal for women, outside that can lead to knee and hip issues like arthritis, ligamentous strains, etc.

Huh. Interesting. :flowerforyou:

Makes sense. I've had a thigh gap all my life and arthritis set in at 8yrs old
I've also torn ligaments and am unusually flexible.

Same, but 16 for me.

sanfrangal

http://www.thighgapwrap.com/

Wear it under your clothes and while working out to sweat

ninerbuff

Stay on a horse for 6 months?

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Achrya

http://www.thighgapwrap.com/

Wear it under your clothes and while working out to sweat

Why is this even a thing? Seriously?

redsk

I would say the majority of thigh gap is courtesy of photoshop or nature. I don't get it either way unless you are worried about ventilation. :laugh:

TallGlassOfQuirky

This thread is on page 6 so someone has probably already mentioned it, but put a man's face in between them. Creates the best gap ever.

whierd

Spirit fingers.

mspoopoo

I didn't even know this was a thing lol. I looked at some old photos when I was thin and apparently I have one and my grown daughter does too. Must be genetics.

BonnieandClyde29

I'm sure this subject is new to you, but it is old to everyone else! Not everyone gets it and if you do it just depends on your hips you can't change that!

~New Subject!