hour glass shaped girls??

I think I'm an hour glass but I'm not sure.

Height : 5'3"
Weight : 125

Bust : 37
Waist: 26.5 (Before joining MFP, 28 ish)
Hips: 38.5 (Before joining MFP, 40")

You're an hourglass and you're very close to my dream size! Lol darn you :]

90% of the people in these comments arent hourglass LOL but most of them have awesome hips ! I want to keep my hips. Just for reference if anyone wants to know hourglass means your hips and your bust minus your waist both equal 9 inches or more. Like 40inch hips and a 31inch waist plus 40inch bust. Plus bust and hips are no more than 2 inches apart, so 40inch hips and 42inch bust is okay too. :] Otherwise if only the hips are big it is a pear shape, which is also lovely.

True. But sometimes the basic shape is hourglass at the ideal weight. Plus the bust measurement is a tough one because while mine is currently 37 to hips that are 39, I wear a DD cup and I -- like a pear -- tend to lose first in my upper body. So I will appear pear-shaped by measurements at certain points in my weight loss, but if you just looked at me (there's a good photo on my page before a 5K where you can see this) I definitely do not look like a pear. And at my ideal weight, my hips will catch up to the bust losses and I'm pretty much a perfect hourglass.

I think a lot of people posting are the boy/apple shape but with a bit of a waist indentation. My best friend is shaped like that, so almost an hourglass, but not quite. I think only 8% of the female population is actually hourglass, but I see a lot of pears claim to be.

Personally, I'd prefer pear. I hate my boobs! I want to go braless just once in my life. :-(

Yes, I am hourglass shaped but I am 5'9". There was a time in my teens that I thought I could reshape my body with diet and exercise and be more androgynous looking because it was the fashion in the 80's to be flat and ruler shaped. I did extreme dieting (because back then fasting to lose weight was the fad) and got down to 116 lbs. from my normal 140 lbs.

Well...it didn't work. I was thinner all over but not exactly how I wanted, I was still carrying the bulk of my weight in the hips and butt. The key is to tone with weights, use cardio to strengthen your heart and gain fitness and enjoy yourself being active. Don't compare yourself to any "ideal" body because for one...the "ideal" keeps changing, one decade it's stick thin, another it's curvy and busty, or ripped and muscular, next decade it will be something else like flat chested with a huge caboose...who knows? For another, fighting genetics is almost futile.

I always hated my ample thighs, but when they are toned I like them okay. Naked or in some garments I think they actually look better than if I had skinny thighs. Research in Denmark I read once actually showed that women with fuller thighs were healthier than those who had little fat there. I will have to try to find that research because it helped me make peace with my "thunder thighs".

I am hour glass and i dont know my exact messurement but I am 100% portuguese and love my curves. I still have some weight to lose mostly on my thighs but I hope i dont lose my bum Yay for curves!!!! Add Me

pear

Not sure if I qualify but I'm 32-24-34 and 5'3"

last measurments: 5'6":
Bust 40"
Waist 36"
Hips 40.5"

Would like the be smaller, of course...I'm working on it!

I once heard it would be impossible or near impossible to hold herself(Barbie) up since she would be too top heavy for her waist

So if Barbie is unhealthy does anyone know a safe/healthy/idea bust, weight,hip ratio to height - or does it not exist because we are all so different?

Just wondered...

There isn't one. From a heart health perspective, you want a waist that is no more than half your height and they say pear shapes (and hourglasses are basically pears with boobs) are healthier than apple because of the waist/visceral fat.

But someone who is apple/boy shaped and has a waist that is not overly large (less than half height) is perfectly healthy, size-wise, anyway.

I am hour glass and i dont know my exact messurement but I am 100% portuguese and love my curves. I still have some weight to lose mostly on my thighs but I hope i dont lose my bum Yay for curves!!!! Add Me

I love that you said that you love your curves! I think they are really nice on women too. I was ashamed about being curvy when I was a young woman, American guys were usually telling me I could lose 5 lbs or so, then I went to study in Spain and Mexico and there was much appreciation for women with curves there! I finally felt beautiful. :-)