What is "too skinny" (pics)

andreanicole686

I'd say 3 and 6 are a bit too skinny. But some girls do have smaller frames and small people are naturally skinny. All of them are beautiful though.

Victoria2448

The last one looks too thin and unhealthy. She's thin without definition. A few of the others need some muscle, but don't look too skinny to me.

I'd like to add that sometimes when your abs start to show, people mistake them for ribs. My GF blasted me one day for that....but she was not seeing ribs at all. She was seeing my obliques and intercostals.

KBside

I personally think 1 is beautiful. Healthy looking! I think it is yucky when you can see the hips bones poking out, just not healthy looking at all. Too skinny.

bettyboop573

Not for anything, but I think this post is totally useless. What is the point? Why do we need to gauge what is or isn't too skinny? Get to whatever weight you want, for yourself, and be happy there. Screw what others think.

***agreed

SergeantSunshine_reused

I personally think 1 is beautiful. Healthy looking! I think it is yucky when you can see the hips bones poking out, just not healthy looking at all. Too skinny.

My hip bones stick out quite a bit....

I have wide hips. Im built that way. They even rub my jeans too hard sometimes and make me hurt xD

andreanicole686

I think the whole "no bones should ever stick out" is BS. I have bigger ribs and very visible collar bones I'm 134 pounds at 5'7 and they show more than other bodies might at the same weight. I can't help that they show more. People need to stop being rude to those whose bones tend to stick out more than others.

IpuffyheartHeelsinthegym

The whole "bones sticking out" thing is weird to me. I have very wide hips and hip bones stick out like crazy. So do my collar bones. And when I stretch yup my ribs. I thought that was normal *shrugs*

Yup same.. Makes me feel self concious when I'm on certain machines at the gym that emphasis certain things sticking out.. People stare at me and its not nice

same here, at least my hips and collar bone for sure, at any size and lower weight was rib cage, too.

mickipedia

Not for anything, but I think this post is totally useless. What is the point? Why do we need to gauge what is or isn't too skinny? Get to whatever weight you want, for yourself, and be happy there. Screw what others think.

***agreed

I want to get a general opinion on what is "too skinny" so that I know I'm not deluded when I say I still have a lot more to lose.. I am no where near close to the girls people have said are "too skinny" so I know when people call me that I can tell them to shush with confidence.

Oh and KBside.. Please don't refer to sticking out hip bones as yucky.. Mine do and it doesn't automatically makes someone unhealthy.. It just happens to be that I've lost a lot of weight over them and they are pretty wide so will be the first thing to stick out.

freckledrats

"Too skinny" is merely when you're below 10% body fat (as a woman) and your weight is now threatening your overall health. FYI, you can't always tell that by whether or not bones are sticking out anywhere. My boyfriend is naturally very thin (he's a workaholic and often doesn't remember meals--I do my best to remind him). You can see his ribs and hip bones. His BMI is in the NORMAL range, and no, he's not very muscular, so it's not a fluke. He is healthy.

Otherwise, it's personal preference. What do you WANT to be? As long as you're healthy, who cares?

All of those women are beautiful. I would love to look like any of them.

IpuffyheartHeelsinthegym

I think the whole "no bones should ever stick out" is BS. I have bigger ribs and very visible collar bones I'm 134 pounds at 5'7 and they show more than other bodies might at the same weight. I can't help that they show more. People need to stop being rude to those whose bones tend to stick out more than others.

agreed, but then you have to look at who is saying these things, too. I tend to think people just don't understand that which they know nothing about. One wouldn't look at us and assume we eat 6 times a day, they probably "assume" we eat once a day, if that...

aleexFIT

I think 4 and 6 look too skinny. To me 5 doesn't look as bad as 4, seems more athletic. The "nicest" to me to is 2.

I have been struggling with this recently too. My collarbone and ribs do stick out like crazy but I still have a bit of a belly that I need to tone and I still weigh 134lbs (completely healthy for 5'7). But it's been causing people to tell me I need to stop and I am "taking things too far", it's so irritating.

missfancy1980

3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th are all "too skinny" as far as i can see, although at least 5 looks like she works out a lot. Number 1 is on the large side, number 2 is perfect x

SergeantSunshine_reused

I think the whole "no bones should ever stick out" is BS. I have bigger ribs and very visible collar bones I'm 134 pounds at 5'7 and they show more than other bodies might at the same weight. I can't help that they show more. People need to stop being rude to those whose bones tend to stick out more than others.

agreed, but then you have to look at who is saying these things, too. I tend to think people just don't understand that which they know nothing about. One wouldn't look at us and assume we eat 6 times a day, they probably "assume" we eat once a day, if that...

Just had a 745 calorie breakfast. woo!

My roomie is 105 pounds and taller than me but you cant see her hip bones. Im 15 pounds heavier and mine are easily seen.

Richardson62617

I have to agree pictures one and two are perfect the rest are to skinny

violetness

1 or 2 I think the rest are too skinny.

I agree.

TheFitHooker

#2 is my idea of where about's I'd like myself but I'll probably never get there, I'm about where #1 is now. I think 6 looks sick and not very healthy at all. This is of course my own personal opinion. I would not want to look like that. I think #5 is beautiful and has great muscle tone. #4 reminds me of a friend, beautiful but almost to thin. I think #3 is beautiful and I wouldn't mind that shape either but again I doubt I'd ever see it.

SergeantSunshine_reused

I think 1 is probably over weight. To me she doesn't look healthy. I am sure her body fat % is in the overweight range though

rrrbecca11

I'm skinny and proud, healthy, fit and toned. Haters don't bother me. To each his own, I say.

EmCarroll1990

I think 1 is probably over weight. To me she doesn't look healthy. I am sure her body fat % is in the overweight range though

Was waiting for someone to go there. And I agree.

missfancy1980

Actually after looking closer, 5 doesn't look too bad. Still skinner than i personally would wish to be, but she doesn't look unhealthy x

ooOOooGravy

To me 1 and 2 are the best. i think 4 and 5 are imho approaching unhealthy looking

DaveRCF

2 or 3 are about right, although 2 has probably been photoshopped to death (most professional looking of the shots). 1 looks good but just not to my tastes. The other images are too thin for me.

pinkhu13

#3&6 are too skinny FOR ME (as in what I would like to look like. #1 is bigger than I would like to look like. i think they all are beautiful though. Whatever works for them. I mean those are their bodies

Edit: number 4 is a little borderline for me.

Articeluvsmemphis

we need to realize that for us to judge something, we must have a standard of what it normal? there's no true normal, we all come in different sizes and shapes.

beauty is subjective, I think it's valid for someone to say a person is unattractive to them b/c they're too fat, too skinny, it's a personal preference.

pretty much saying there's beauty in all the pictures, just may not be the beauty you like or agree with

parris1164

I think the first 2 are the healthiest looking .... the very last one looks sickly

Vegetablearian

I think the whole "no bones should ever stick out" is BS. I have bigger ribs and very visible collar bones I'm 134 pounds at 5'7 and they show more than other bodies might at the same weight. I can't help that they show more. People need to stop being rude to those whose bones tend to stick out more than others.

I am like you only I am not 134 lb anymore, when I was my hips and ribs stuck out but BMI of 21 is very healthy! though usually peoples bones stick out because they are underweight so usually there is a valid reason for people to be concerned but those unfortunate (or not if you see it that way) to have big bones that stick out end up getting the same stick ..

and thats what I want to get back to really but my goal for now is 150 im 193 at the moment!

Whatamilike

...and another really great thing about this post is that some of us are now judging others based on our responses to the original question..!

In my opinion noones opinion is wrong - I would never judge these girls (if I met them) based on how they look... But the question was - what do we think of how they look?

SergeantSunshine_reused

I think 1 is probably over weight. To me she doesn't look healthy. I am sure her body fat % is in the overweight range though

Was waiting for someone to go there. And I agree.

Glad Im not the only one who thought so. Comments like "glowing health" "healthy, perfect" Im sure she is not in the healthy range

twilighttabby

Everyone of them under 2 is tooooo skinny!!!! 1 and 2 look like a good weight.

AmmyP

#1 may be on the heavy side but she is also what most of the females in the world look like and #6 is just plain anorexic.