WTF is a thigh gap?

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  • EatClenTrenHard
    EatClenTrenHard Posts: 339 Member
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    dont know how old are you, but isn't obesity epidemic a recent thing? like 20-30 years.

    maybe perhaps it was a common thing before, and now it became "the good" thing
  • DebbieLyn63
    DebbieLyn63 Posts: 2,650 Member
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    Years ago I worked with a bunch of guys who talked about girls that had the "3 triangles". That was the gap at the ankles, knees, and top of thighs. They were pretty much all pigs.

    I have narrow hips and am very 'knock-kneed' as they used to call it, so I have never had a thigh gap, even when I had 12 year old chicken legs. But it would be nice to not have my legs rub together. Especially in a swimsuit.
  • RiverDancer68
    RiverDancer68 Posts: 221 Member
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    I think a lot of people think it is sexy when the thigh gap looks like a heart and has definite curves...the pro ana/mia types are aiming for the fashion model thigh gap where the legs have no muscle definition and are straight up and down from the top of the thigh to the ankle, no curving at the top (which gives the legs that heart shape).

    I have a thigh gap because I have wide hips and am bow legged...genetics baby!! I got teased for it when I was 14ish because it used to be thought that you were "easy" if you had one?? Even at my heaviest I have one, so it does not always equal being waif-like or extremely skinny!
  • WinnerVictorious
    WinnerVictorious Posts: 4,735 Member
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    dont know how old are you, but isn't obesity epidemic a recent thing? like 20-30 years.

    maybe perhaps it was a common thing before, and now it became "the good" thing

    there's not an obesity epidemic among college aged girls. they are mostly skinny now and they were mostly skinny in the late 80's when i was in college. never once did i have a conversation about the "thigh gaps" of sorority girls. we may have talked about other "parts", but not whether or not her upper thighs touched.

    i think it has more to do with the instant sharing of photos online that has led to the creation of this as a "body part". once girls started posting photos showing it and the photos spread out through their social networks and websites picked up on it and glamorized it, it becomes part of the zeitgeist for that youth bracket to want.
  • happythermia
    happythermia Posts: 374
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    Want something else to obsess over? Google hip dip.

    LOL I swear we just invent things to make us insane.

    Love your body, it's the only one you've got :-)
  • laceyfowler
    laceyfowler Posts: 127 Member
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    It is a casual apparel thigh that has struggled since the late 90's due to being sandwiched between a lower and higher sister company, those companies being Thigh Banana Republic and Thigh Old Navy.

    LOL! Nice :-)
  • RiverDancer68
    RiverDancer68 Posts: 221 Member
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    I think a lot of people think it is sexy when the thigh gap looks like a heart and has definite curves...the pro ana/mia types are aiming for the fashion model thigh gap where the legs have no muscle definition and are straight up and down from the top of the thigh to the ankle, no curving at the top (which gives the legs that heart shape).

    I have a thigh gap because I have wide hips and am bow legged...genetics baby!! I got teased for it when I was 14ish because it used to be thought that you were "easy" if you had one?? Even at my heaviest I have one, so it does not always equal being waif-like or extremely skinny!

    And, please note that I said pro ana/mia types have this particular "look" as a goal (usually)...I am NOT saying everyone that has one has an ED or aspiring to have one necessarily means that you have and ED! I noticed the earlier debate and wanted to make sure I was being clear :flowerforyou:
  • Jessi_Brooks
    Jessi_Brooks Posts: 759 Member
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    I cant help but think some of the sudden obsession over thigh gaps is due to a particular website....

    ETA: I hope not cuz that site promotes extremely unhealthy and unrealistic body image.
  • MyaPapaya75
    MyaPapaya75 Posts: 3,143 Member
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    I like my non thigh gap..is it popular to have one ..LOL bwahahhaha must be young girls want them...i WILL JUST STAY A CHUNKY MONKEY AND KEEP MY LEGS
  • giggitygoo
    giggitygoo Posts: 1,978 Member
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    Someone once told me "if a woman's legs don't touch at the top then that woman cannot be trusted"

    Guess now that it has happened to me and I have a thigh gap I cannot trust myself! Ah well back to my wicked ways then I suppose.

    Oh snap. I'm a devil woman! Really though, it is kinda nice not having to worry about chafing.
  • apocalypsepwnie
    apocalypsepwnie Posts: 373
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    Lol feet together thighs apart.
    Just another fashion fad to drive people insane about being fat. As is pen test. I've seen pics of girls do this where they are painfully thin but because their spine doesn't touch the floor they don't pass the test because their stomach rises above the pen.

    I'm fat. I'm currently 90kg/198 lbs and I think in about 10kg/22 lbs I'll have a thigh gap and my legs are huge. They look like whole christmas hams. They only just rub together at the top now. I have wiiiiiiiide hips.
    The only benefit to me is not ruining millions of pairs of pants from the rubbing. And I can wear cords without that hilarious noise.
    If I got to my 'ideal' weight (lol what all the BMI charts say) of 54kg/119lbs you could throw a baby through that gap.
  • Jessi_Brooks
    Jessi_Brooks Posts: 759 Member
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    lol Ive never heard of the pen test.. at first when I read pen test I thought you were talking about the holding a pencil under your butt cheek to determine how tight and lifted your bum is lol.
  • mamagooskie
    mamagooskie Posts: 2,964 Member
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    its what happens when you get a girl liquored up enough

    too effin funny!! True tho!
  • ksavy
    ksavy Posts: 271 Member
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    You do not have to have super skinny thighs to have one. My thighs are are almost 23 inches around, but I have really wide set hips so I have a gap. Feet together, hips rocked forward or backwards, it is stil there. Sometimes I like it and think its cool, but other times I think it looks odd because of how wide I am.
  • emmalouc93
    emmalouc93 Posts: 328 Member
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    I hate thigh gaps.... Ok if you want one, but for me, it is sick.
  • Jessi_Brooks
    Jessi_Brooks Posts: 759 Member
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    Ive got a bit of a gap too... I do like it, and I get it when people find a trait attractive and want it for themselves, but so many of the thigh gap photos I see online, the girls just look under weight to me and hopefully people arent aiming to be underweight just so they can have a thigh gap, especially if its just not in their build to have one.
  • slleader
    slleader Posts: 66 Member
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    its what happens when you get a girl liquored up enough


    LMAO too funny!!
  • cynthiaj777
    cynthiaj777 Posts: 787 Member
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    Thigh gap = ***n rest....same thing.
    Overrated
    I'm really struggling to figure out what is censored in that statement. I think my "bad word" vocabulary is pretty limited.

    HAHAHAHA I was gonna ask......anyone figure it out? lmao
  • cynthiaj777
    cynthiaj777 Posts: 787 Member
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    Thigh gap = ***n rest....same thing.
    Overrated
    I'm really struggling to figure out what is censored in that statement. I think my "bad word" vocabulary is pretty limited.

    Chin

    OHHHHHHHHHHH
  • jg627
    jg627 Posts: 1,221 Member
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    Rickets. I believe it's due to a vitamin D deficiency.

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