What body shape am I?

Anonymous

Hello everyone, I really need help determining my body shape. Every time I type in my measurements on an online body shape calculator I keep getting ‘hourglass’ or ‘pear’ but to be honest I feel like an inverted triangle. Any opinions would be appreciated and if you can suggest some secondary body types that would be nice too. I’m currently 20 pounds overweight so I’m not sure if that is affecting my ability to accurately determine my body shape.

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5 years ago

Body Type

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Helena

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Hmm, I'm terrible at this to be honest, but I can see what you are saying; your shoulders are just a whisper wider than your hips (mine are similar) - for that, I don't worry about de-emphasizing my shoulders, I just make a point of not emphasizing them particularly either.

I would say you are a rectangle to slight hourglass maybe? I wouldn't have said pear at all.

Hope someone better than me at this will chime in to help soon

5 years ago

CocoLion

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Welcome to the forum! I see an IT as you do Alice101. Secondary body type would be hourglass. And you do not look 20 pounds overweight. I think you can wear many different styles. You would probably want to size up in jackets and some tops so that there is enough room for your shoulder line. I don't think you need to de-emphasize your shoulder line, it is actually very attractive. You just need enough room in your clothes because tight jackets are uncomfortable. And tightness in that area actually draws more attention to something, if that makes any sense. In my case, it is my hips so I have learned to buy pants a size bigger. The looser fit of the pants de-empahsizes the area.

You are lucky to have this body type, which is what a lot of models have.

5 years ago