Not OP or PP but Maybe you should visit other cities. It is somewhat true what OP mentioned and I find people in Asia, Europe and even in Toronto don't have that much obesity as Americans...

How do you know they are fifteen? They could be 25 and just look younger.

I agree overall with OP. Mom of teen daughter here. There also seem to be a smaller subset of dancers/athletes who have what used to be considered a normal size back in the 80s. However, the majority of teens and young adults are chubby if not obese - makes the future of longevity and health care look bleak if you ask me.

On the other hand, I know that all girls (chubby and average/thin) are being exposed by an onslaught of horrible pressures and images in social media hourly (thigh gap, bikini bridge and photoshopped or not pictures of basically anorexic girls). Have had to seriously discussions with DD and not sure if we're are out the woods. Her main extracurricular activity requires fitness along with a trim, muscular body. Very stressful times for this mom indeed and for the kids too.

This again? Wasn't there a similar thread not long ago? Are you the same OP obsessed with today's teenager's lack of body shame?

And, btw, I see plenty of slim, cute teenagers of both genders all the time. Maybe it's particular to where you live.

I'm not finding this to be true according to all the teen bikini pics on my dd's Instagram

Where did you notice that?

I was just wistfully noticing all the teens' healthy bodies and thinking of my own wrinkled squishy belly!

But then maybe I was at the ballet studio, or the music school my children go to, or one of their rehearsal venues for their shows. Dancers and most young singers seem to be pretty fit. I only saw one overly thin one in the bunch, and a couple of overweight ones. They all looked healthy and happy anyway.

I agree. I'm a 44 year old woman that weighs and fits in the same clothes I did at 20 because I have worked out (hard--not yoga/stretching shit) my entire life. I could get away with a midriff too (though never would at my age). I've had 2 kids and still the fittest woman in my morning spinning class filled with single 20-30 year olds.

Is it the plastics??? The hormones they were exposed to in food? Too much social media, not enough activity?
The majority of Teen/college girls didn't have fat guts and love handles in the 80s.

Hmm.. They do menstruate earlier too. Gotta be something.

Anonymous wrote:Why are you checking out teenage girls bodies?

+1 OP you sound like a creepy douche. Can you at least wait until they're college aged to scrutinize and criticize girls' bodies? Jesus.

Anonymous wrote:Along with most of our socio-political-economic lives, physical bodies seem to be bifurcating.

i.e. kids and adults either letting go and content to look like shit or going overboard (either naturally by hours at the gym, spending truckloads on good and expensive food or unnaturally) and looking sexier than ever.

I look at old pictures from my mom and grandmother days - so many just normal and cute people.

Now you either have a killer body or a frumpy body - nothing inbetween it seems.

EEEXACTLY.
And I am not even sure the ones at the gym look good, too muscular. The women who jog behind he stroller with the big biceps is not my idea of a nice figure.
But the chubsters are not easy on the eye.

Along with most of our socio-political-economic lives, physical bodies seem to be bifurcating.

i.e. kids and adults either letting go and content to look like shit or going overboard (either naturally by hours at the gym, spending truckloads on good and expensive food or unnaturally) and looking sexier than ever.

I look at old pictures from my mom and grandmother days - so many just normal and cute people.

Now you either have a killer body or a frumpy body - nothing inbetween it seems.

Anonymous wrote:Why are you checking out teenage girls bodies?

I'm other PP. How can you *not* notice all the fat teens out there?

Anonymous wrote:Why are you checking out teenage girls bodies?

+1. That was my first thought!!!

I know! I've really wondered why it is this way. I'm 40 and have a better figure than most teens. Not that I don't like that but it seems wrong too.

Why are you checking out teenage girls bodies?

they look like they are in their thirties, complete with muffin tops, cankles, saddle bags, potbellies.
When I was young, teens had flat stomachs and cute hips. We looked good in tight jeans and bikinis.
These poor kids aren't even going through that phase of having a nice figure. They go straight from tween years to chubby.
I thought that everyone could remember a time when they blossomed and looked great.