What’s a pear shaped body like?
A person with pear shaped body has wider lower hips compared to its top body part (especially shoulders). Alternate names for pear shaped body are A shape, triangle shape, spoon and bell.
Most pear shaped body has low wide hip, rounded fleshy bottoms, thick thighs, narrow shoulders, small chest and distinct waistline.
How to determine if I am pear shaped?
To determine if you are pear shaped, stand straight in front of the mirror, naked and with feet together. If the length of your front shoulders (left shoulder to right shoulder) are narrower than your front hips (left hip to right hip) or if the measurement around your shoulders are narrower than your hips then congratulations, you are pear shaped!
The pear shape
In short someone with broad shoulders (also called inverted triangle) will have this sort of silhouette (well mostly, unless your waist and hips are wide too). Charlene Wittstock who is the Princess of Monaco and the wife of Albert II, Prince of Monaco has broad shoulders. She was a former Olympic swimmer hence that explain her built.
However there are also women out there who are not swimmers or athletes but are gifted with natural broad shoulders. I said gifted because it’s not a bad thing. You might think it is with the ugly ‘men’s back’ but in fact women with broad shoulders look nice, elegant and attractive in the right choice of clothing because the clothes hang on to the body beautifully.
But wait, how do you know if you have broad shoulders or narrow shoulders?
If you have broad shoulders, your shoulders will be wider than your hips. As for narrow shoulders, it’s the opposite; your shoulders will be narrower than your hips. you can read more tips on them too.
broad shoulders
the hourglass
Hourglass shaped body is the most desirable body shape for women. Perfect balanced proportion and sexy curvaceous body are the two main reasons why many women and men lust over this hourglass shape. It’s the epitome of beauty and femininity. And it’s the undeniable truth whether we like it or not. As tempting as an hourglass body shape may be, there are actually only about 8% women in the world who owns this body shape.
If you are a pear, inverted triangle and rectangle, more often than not you are actually trying to balance your lacking proportion to create the hourglass figure. Have you noticed that?
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