Do your siblings share your body type?

snailrunner
snailrunner Posts: 215 Member
edited October 7 in Health and Weight Loss
My sister and I are both in our 40s, are the same height and have had two children each. She is a UK size 24-26 and has been for many years. She has joint problems due to being so overweight. I think her boobs probably weigh 10lbs each. By contrast, at age 18 I was a UK size 6-8 and even now am only size 10, heading back towards 8-10 with 6lbs to go. My mother says she always fed us the same as children. No-one seeing us side by side now would even think that we are related.

Does body shape run in your family, or do you have the contrast that my sister and I do?
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  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    We are complete opposite. Growing up, she was chubbier (not fat), I was rail thin. Now, she carries all her weight in her mid section, with thin legs and I carry most of the extra weight in my hips and legs with a smaller waist.
    I never realized but even when we were both very thin, she says her stomach was never flat, I always had abs. But I was always self conscious of my legs because I thought they were big (although looking back now...). She always had thin legs.
  • sportsforfun
    sportsforfun Posts: 353
    My brother and I definitely have different body types. He gains very easily and is about a size 38 waist while I cannot pack on weight at all and am a 32 waist. We are around the same height (me 6'4, him 6'2) which is definitely bad for my sister who go the short gene at 5'1.
  • BreakingUpWithObesity2013
    BreakingUpWithObesity2013 Posts: 276 Member
    Completely opposit here...my sister can eat whatever she wants and stays really skinny....I have to watch everything that goes in my mouth and i have always been bigger than her.
  • smiley01x
    smiley01x Posts: 93 Member
    Nope, my sister has always been a skinny mini... I have always been the bigger one. She eats whatever she wants and stays between 115-125!
  • abetterliv
    abetterliv Posts: 50 Member
    My sister is 12 years old and very underweight for her age and height, and has always been that way. When I was her age, I probably weighed 140 at 5'3".... so not at all, haha.
  • Lyndi4
    Lyndi4 Posts: 442 Member
    I wouldn't say that I am vastly different than my siblings, but they all seem to have inherited more of my mom's metabolism where I guess I got my dad's. He had to work to keep the weight off, and that's how I am. My other 3 siblings struggle to gain weight. I know it's easy to wish I had their problem, but for my brothers who want to bulk up it's really tough. My sister is 5'11" and at times she's been just over 100 lbs. I do wish I could eat as much as they do without having to worry, though. :)
  • maritenour
    maritenour Posts: 107 Member
    NO!
    I am 5'11, been overweight my whole life, Im around 280 now, and my older sister, is about 5'6, and 130lbs.
    People give us the weirdest looks. She takes after my mom, and I take after my father.
  • rebeccaME207
    rebeccaME207 Posts: 90 Member
    :laugh: No my brothers boobs arent as big! Probably a good thing 4 him(-:
  • Jellyphant
    Jellyphant Posts: 1,400 Member
    My younger brother used to be short and plump while I was averageish in highschool. Now that we've bother graduated, he's now tall and skinny while I'm still short and plump. -____-
  • cherrytulips
    cherrytulips Posts: 109
    nope, me and my sister are totally different. and my mom and her sister are totally different too.
  • littleali
    littleali Posts: 179 Member
    My sister is shorter than me at 5'4 and she was always chubby but still smaller than me and she lost weight, getting to a UK 12/14 in her last year of school whilst I was always a UK 16/18. Interestingly though, when I lost my first 20lbs, she started losing the rest of her weight and now weighs the same as me! She does, however, have short legs and a longer torso whereas I'm just quite long all over!
  • liz3marie
    liz3marie Posts: 211 Member
    Im jelous of my sister, she has a great body! Me on the hand complete oppisite!
  • CoryIda
    CoryIda Posts: 7,870 Member
    Although my sisters (I have two) and I all share a "sturdy" German build complete with thick legs (mine are not at all fat, but they are thick), that's about the extent of our body similarities.
    My sisters are 5'2" and 5'6" and I am 5'10" - yes, we have the same parents.
    My short sister has short legs and a long torso, the middle height sister has about even legs and torso, and I have long legs and a short torso.
    My short sister and I both have large busts, but we carry them much differently. Our other sister is average-endowed in that area.
    Size wise, we are all within a handful of sizes of one another, but at different weights and fitness levels. Because of our height disparities, it's hard to make a good comparison.
    I think that, in most cases, siblings do share more similarities but my family is just not like that.
  • Angel1066
    Angel1066 Posts: 816 Member
    My sister and i share the fat gene, she has conquered it where i am halfway through the battle. Since i have lost weight we are starting to look alike.
  • lorac321
    lorac321 Posts: 614 Member
    I'm 5'10' / 199 and my sister is 5'4" and maybe 130. I was always the bigger one. I am also taller than both my parents. My sister may have gotten the body, but I got the personality.
  • charlotte66
    charlotte66 Posts: 248 Member
    nope all my siblings are very very skinny my sister can eat what she wants she has chips for lunch everyday at school and sweets then goes home and has a massive dinner and eats after dinner but yet dosnt do anything im the only one who has to watch their weight! always have had to watch what i eat .......maybe they are all alien hmmmm :laugh:


    altho they may all be skinny i have the curves were as my sister has no boobs hips or bum :happy:
  • emaline614
    emaline614 Posts: 86 Member
    my brother and i are bother short, and that's pretty much where the similarities stop. he can gain weight pretty easily but then as soon as he starts becoming active, it flies off of him. not fair!
  • mrmarius
    mrmarius Posts: 1,802 Member
    me and my maternal brother are opposites, i'm tall he's short, i have a brother and sister on my fathers side that i've never met in person, i know my brother is tall like me but he is super thin... i use to be thin until i started dating my wife, i dont think my sister is built like either one of us though
  • onehotgirl
    onehotgirl Posts: 120
    My sister is a skinny wee thing, but she has always been that way her whole life was super fussy as a kid (but now ironically she is a chef and eats a lot of different things now), she'll be one of those people who give birth then walk out of hospital in her pre pregnancy jeans lol.

    Although I have never been obese, I have always been overweight or at the high end of the bmi charts, we just have different body builds but that's cool cos I got the curves :happy:
  • NaturalinCO
    NaturalinCO Posts: 164 Member
    My sister and I have diff't dads, but she's got the smaller frame for sure. I took my biological dad's side re build - the women are all "sturdy" lol, like me, but definitely overweight if it's not managed. My sis is pregnant now and will bounce back from baby weight so fast it'll annoy me, but what can you do? I have to work at it, her? Not so much.
  • LydiaHTC
    LydiaHTC Posts: 1
    Both my sister and I have the same body shape (she's a size bigger but I still pinch her clothes). The only difference is that I exercise and she doesn't. I have a lot more tone than she does but otherwise we're exactly alike and love the same foods. My brother is big too. My Father's side are all rugby players and rather big, but my Mum is as petite as can be, yet none of us inherited her metabolism. My siblings and I all have to work to ditch the weight.
  • cheeksv
    cheeksv Posts: 521 Member
    out of 6 older siblings I only have one sister that is fully related to me. All others are half ( although we make no distinction in our family). That being said I have one half sister that looks exactly the same. We share the same father and have the same body type, skin type, hair. People say we could be twins if she wasn't like 20 years older than me lol. My fully biological sister looks exactly like our half brother , tall thin and the same skin tones.
  • feligrosa
    feligrosa Posts: 4
    my older sister is completely different. She's 5'6 and I'm 5'9, the weirdest thing is that her torso is longer than mine and well... my legs are longer than hers :) She was always very thin and well... I've been the chubbier sister :S haha working on it :)
  • supersumobridesmaid
    supersumobridesmaid Posts: 1
    I'm the middle of 3 siblings and while my older brother is skinny (approx 34inch waist) my little brother and me are both around 19-20st each.

    Growing up we all ate the same, my older brother did lots of sports, which I guess paid off, but he takes after mum with her fast metabolism and super strong will power, while me and my little brother take after our dad and both eat when we are depressed about something :(
  • deltagreen
    deltagreen Posts: 58 Member
    Strangely my sister and I have the same body type. I'm more proportional (and I have biggest breasts), but we look the same. It worked out all through my childhood because I could borrow her clothes easily :)
  • gixy72
    gixy72 Posts: 176 Member
    when we(older bro by 2 years) we growning up he has slim/skinny and about the same hight as me, me been chubby/fat. by our teens he started getting taller and i got rounder.. adult life he is 5 inch's taller than me but he has filled out and now and again we weigh the same, both of us yo yo all the time, but not very often that he is bigger than me.. but i do hope that this will change this year
  • MattieJean21
    MattieJean21 Posts: 41
    None of my sister are like me. My older sister is about 5'5-5'6 and HUGE boobs and weighs about 180 lbs. My other older sister is also taller about the same height but she is build bigger and weighs probably 200. Now my little sister ( 9 months younger!!!!!) she is about 5'7 and weight 155 and a tiny build!!! I am the shortest..... I am about 5'1... and weigh 170. I also have a small build. So I am the only one who really doesn't fall in the same category as them!
  • mommyoverboard
    mommyoverboard Posts: 105
    I wish my oldest sister has had 5 kids (I've had 2) and she is leaner and way more fit than me.
    My younger sister is thin as a bean stalk but so was I before I had kids
    My brother is probably the most "non-fit" of us all but I think guys can carry it better than girls.

    I'm not overweight, but I'm not "fit & lean" either.
  • abcwhite10
    abcwhite10 Posts: 140 Member
    Nope - complete opposite. Mind you I'm female, and my brother, well obviously - he's male. But I am 5'2" he is 6'2" and we probably weigh the same amount lol. He may even weigh less - super skinny! He has always been built that way and I have always been built this way.
  • purpleipod
    purpleipod Posts: 1,147 Member
    My sister and I have pretty much the same body type. Big boobs, small waist, big hips/legs/butt. She's 2 or 3 inches taller than me though so it looks different on her.
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