Is a thigh gap possible?

JUST STOP ALREADY.

sorry but this thread made me giggle

Spread your legs...thigh gap...done.

Seriously just about spit out my soda laughin! So true!

I used to get depressed about my thighs rubbing together but then realized that they always have. I'm just more aware of it now because I'm carrying extra weight and I am now acknowledging parts of my body that I never realized existed before :bigsmile:

hello back fat! :laugh:

Please don't try to get a thigh gap. It could be an unattainable goal and make you obsessed with the impossible.

I didn't intend it to be body shaming, I intended it to be true. I admire many things about naturally slim bodies, but I've never actually seen someone with a "thigh gap" who was naturally thin, I've only ever seen it on pro ana tumblrs and obviously seriously underweight models. Like people who's ribs you can count or people who have row upon row of visible vertabrae, I associate it with people who are unnaturally thin. I have a natural "roll" in the belly button area and bulging lovehandles. If someone said they found them creepy because they associated them with unnatural weight gain, I would not be offended, even if we lived in a culture that was obsessed with holding women who are heavy up as ideals.

I wish you could meet the women in my best friend's family. They ALL have thigh gaps (she and her sisters range in weight from 140 to 210)...but they all have very, very wide hips. They may be unusual, but they are far from underweight, and it is natural for them at apparently whatever weight they happen to be.

For the OP:

Even at my thinnest (at 5'4", 110 lb and fit) I did not have a thigh gap (my hips are not that wide), so it's not attainable for me, just like I can't have a longer neck or smaller feet. Body shape is constrained by the size, shape, and arrangement of your skeleton, and there's no easy or good way to change that.

You will be much happier when you learn to be delighted with what you have; it's fine to admire others who look differently from you, but it's bad for your head to think you can't be attractive because you don't (and physically can't) look like those other bodies.

Having a thigh gap and wearing a skirt gives you a nice breeze around the privates.

I blame yoga pants for this obsession.

I don't understand why women are so worried about this stuff. I just had a conversation about this with my friend who just got a tummy tuck and boob job. And now she hates that her thighs touch, she hats the little tiny "fat roll" in front of her arms when wearing a tank top, the tiny little roll on her back when she bends a certain way.

Embrace your body. Absolutely no offense here, it's not like I go around judging people's thigh gap, but if I notice, which I don't think I ever really do, I think it looks funny. I love my body, my arms are a little loose, my thighs touch, I've got a little armpit roll, my stomach is not flat, but I'm me and I love it

Also this. :laugh:

Okay so I am 5ft 2.5 a UK size 8 thats a US size 6 I think... anyway. I am a banana body shape/straight as my measurements are
bust- 34 in
waist 27 in
hips 35 in
When I put my feet together my thighs touch And I hate it! Is it at all possible for me to attain a thigh gap? I dont have very wide hips so if not then I could understand why, and if yes, then how would I get one? What type of exercises do I need to do?

Your profile says you want to be perfect: given you started at a healthy weight for your height arguably you already are. Getting a thigh gap that is not natural to you is not becoming 'perfect' it's trying to emulate models that are either underweight or have too low a body fat. They chronically undereat to stay that way and often there is airbrushing involved..

Once you go to university in September you will hopefully have more important and fun things to do than worry about a little pocket of feminine fat that nobody can see or care about but you, and too busy to read silly teenage magazines. If you prioritise that over your time at university you are bordering on an eating disorder. Anyone that wants to have bedroom fun with you will likely appreciate you look like a slim young woman and not a prepubescent child.

marilyn monroe? that's a terrible example that i keep seeing on facebook. pretty sure that the men who adored her are either dead now or like 90.

I'll see your 90 and lower you, like, a 41.

And most blokes I know are the same.

I find a 'skinny' woman interesting (only if combined with a healthy person and outlook) but not necessarily sexy.

But I'm, like, 41 so what do I know?

Of course rickets will give you a nice bow-legged stance that will give you a feet together thigh gap...

I've never had a problem with my bum and I have rather narrow hips and am hour glass, but I always think that my thighs look huge, thunderous even and really unattractive.

I never vocalise it though, because I always want slender thighs (and I remember at school most girls would comment how mine didn't have a gap and therefore showed how huge my thighs were) but knew it was impossible because of my build and the fact that I run a lot, do triathlons and weights.

But to my surprise, my fiance (and people I had dated before him) had always commented about how much he loves my thighs because they are strong, shapely and sexy......

I had never heard of the thigh gap being coveted except in the eating disorder community until I read about it on here. But just the other day I was listening to my satellite radio, and one of the DJs was engaging in his typical a$sholish (but USUALLY hilarious) commentary, and was saying, "Ladies! The thigh gap is so in for 2013! You need to get to work on slimming those thighs!" And I am just thinking, seriously, WTF? So this is REALLY a thing now? Dude.

I weigh 112, am 5'3" and my hips are 33" wide. I also don't have a thigh gap, but would like one. Since I regularly exercise and am in good shape, I don't think it's possible. My hips are so narrow that I had to have a C-Section when my daughter was born.