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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, it is better to be "fat" than to be sad, weirdo PP. Especially when "fat" is a pot belly on an 8 year old. Good grief.

OP, I think you're right to be paying attention since it's always possible that there's some underlying health reason, but I also think it's almost certainly not something to worry about. I was looking at my school pictures a few weeks ago and laughing at how I went through a chubby phase from around ages 9-11. Then I hit puberty, grew several inches taller, and was VERY skinny for years. Not due to an eating disorder but just how my body worked, I guess. I started filling out more around 18-20 and ever since have been right in the middle of normal range (I'm now mid-40s).

You may be thinking of the lean male body as the default, which wouldn't be surprising. But women generally do have more body fat and are curvier than men. Our current cultural image of women (white women particularly, I think, if this applies to you) as very slender with sometimes concave (!) stomachs is really messed up. If you look at e.g. classical statues and Renaissance paintings, the model women do have pot bellies![/quote]

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