Why are my chubby friends hands so skinny??? iin?

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I've always wanted to ask someone about this and so, I guess now is my chance, eh?

There's this friend of mine whom I've known for the past 15 years and her weight fluctuated a lot from healthy to overweight, but she was mainly overweight. Anyway, no matter what her weight is, her hands are exactly the same. Her bones show through all over and they're sunken in to the extreme. Her fingers are like twigs and have no fat on them, but her veins don't show at all like some skinny peoples..

Why is this? IIN? I know for a fact that she has no medical problems at all and that she definitely watches what she eats a decent amount. If you only saw her hands, I guarantee you'd assume she was maybe 85 pounds.

Also, by overweight, I mean shes around 160 at 5'4 so, I guess thats maybe 15 pounds overweight?

I am always wondering this..its not just me who notices. Her parents have made comments and when we were younger, our friends nicknamed her "skeleton hands".

Any ideas??? My underweight friend who is 100 pounds at 5'5 has fatter fingers than her!

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  • Piconano
    13 years ago

    I think it's because different people have different distribution of fats in their body. Kinda like how some people have big boobs and still stay slim. In my case, my stomach is nicely flat but my thighs are monsters. In my friend's case, she has a bit of a pot belly but her arms and thighs are super slim. In my sister's case, she's really proportional every else but her fingers, which are stubby.

    I hope that satisfied you curiosity for a bit. Not exactly a scientific explanation, but just a simple observation.

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  • starvingwithana
    13 years ago

    idk im hella skinny and my fingers are hella chubby.

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  • b454
    13 years ago

    A friend of mine has always been big. She's 5'2" and always weighs over 200 lbs but her wrists and hands are so small its bizzare. I never said anything ;)

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    You are putting too much effort into worrying about something that is way too trivial to be noticed. Relax and worry about your own body proportions instead. It's not nice to obsess over other peoples physical differences.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      13 years ago

      I'm not obsessing..okay, maybe a bit, but what's the reasoning behind it? Come on, you've never seen something this odd before. Have you?

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  • Flippin-dillydogs
    11 years ago

    Well just like boobs, you don't lose boob weight lol. And you don't gain boob weight (unlesd yhurr growin boobieees) o.o

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  • windowlicker
    13 years ago

    I've seen people that are really chubby but have like zero fat on their face, it happens.

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  • hippychick
    13 years ago

    No kidding! What the person above me said.

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  • iamandam
    13 years ago

    who gives a shit

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