Is it just me or is "almost every woman you meet trying to claim they have 'thick thighs' as a trend?"

TL;DR If the rest is too long, what I mean is EVERY woman I meet, regardless of how skinny or chubby is claiming to have "thick thighs," even if their thighs are super skinny and not thick at all. It seems like some sort of trend, and I'm wondering where it came from...

I've noticed this, and I found it kind of funny and ridiculous...on one hand it's good to normalize a greater variety of body types rather than just glorifying super skinny supermodel body types; but on the other hand I think it's kind of silly to claim your body is one thing when it's clearly another. Like a person with a small nose claiming to have a big nose, or vice versa. Or a person with brown eyes claiming to have green eyes, or vice versa. You get the point.

Basically EVERY woman I know is claiming to have "thigh thighs," even if they're super skinny and clearly do NOT have "thick" thighs. Like I'm talking women who are only like 100 pounds maximum or below with obviously very skinny arms and legs claiming they have thick thighs.

This is not to shame skinny women who have thin thighs or anything like that, but it's kind of silly to claim you have thick thighs when they clearly aren't thick at all.

Vice versa it'd be just as ridiculous too...aka women with clearly very big and full thighs claiming that their thighs are "too small" or "very thin."

I'm just sort of wondering WHERE and WHY this "trend" started...

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CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

You need the image of reference. My thighs are thick in compare to an average Chinese but probably normal size in compare to a body builder or some of those Latin American or African beauty standards. So if they claim they have thick thighs and don't, they use the super skinny models as the image of reference.

Or another option is they talk about it in relation to the rest of their body. They might have tiny upper body but strong base. I am like that, therefore I say I have thick legs and big butt but they are not thick in comparison to some other women with other types of bodies.

RandomPersonThings · 22-25

@CrazyMusicLover Ah...that makes perfect sense, actually. So it's all about the image of reference, and in relation to the rest of their body. Proportions, basically. Not the thickness of the thighs themselves, just the proportion.

I think an easy example of this is breast size compared to when a woman gains weight and loses weight. Technically fat women's breasts are "bigger" by size alone, but I've seen some women where their breasts definitely look bigger AFTER they lost weight rather than before it. Or the other way around too: their breasts look smaller AFTER they gained weight rather than before it.

And the reason for it is proportions and how the woman herself carries the weight. It's different for everyone obviously, but I've definitely seen A LOT of cases where a woman's breasts look bigger when she's skinny compared to when she's fat.

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

@RandomPersonThings Yup, it's a good example. Also an A cup on someone with a wide chest might seem too small but it's aesthetically proportional for someone with a petite figure.