Your comment made me text my mom and sister to ask, because we were all very skinny kids. My mom got hers at 10 or 11, still in elementary school in the 60s or early 70s. I was surprised to hear that. I got mine at 12 in the mid-90s. My younger sister hasn't responded, but my hazy memory says she got hers around 11 or 12, too. After read…
Your comment made me text my mom and sister to ask, because we were all very skinny kids. My mom got hers at 10 or 11, still in elementary school in the 60s or early 70s. I was surprised to hear that. I got mine at 12 in the mid-90s. My younger sister hasn't responded, but my hazy memory says she got hers around 11 or 12, too. After reading Sai's comment after yours, I'm really curious about this fat/hormone link, either way. None of us started gaining weight until my mom during menopause (aside from some normal fluctuation). My mom and sister were those kinds of women who walked out of the hospital in their normal pants after having babies.
Yeah, same in my family. I have pics of my mom on the beach in the 70s post babies and she was thin as a model. Though we all got ours later around 13/14. I was one of the kids embarrassed about not having it and having all my supplies ready years before I needed them.
I like watching music documentaries from the 60s and 70s, which generally feature a lot of concert footage of young people, and that's where the weight/fat difference is hugely striking. Huge crowds of people in their teens and 20s and everyone is skinny. It's actually much more noticeable wrt the men than it is the women, because they have no fat OR muscles...they're all just skinny birds compared to nowadays.
Your comment made me text my mom and sister to ask, because we were all very skinny kids. My mom got hers at 10 or 11, still in elementary school in the 60s or early 70s. I was surprised to hear that. I got mine at 12 in the mid-90s. My younger sister hasn't responded, but my hazy memory says she got hers around 11 or 12, too. After reading Sai's comment after yours, I'm really curious about this fat/hormone link, either way. None of us started gaining weight until my mom during menopause (aside from some normal fluctuation). My mom and sister were those kinds of women who walked out of the hospital in their normal pants after having babies.
Yeah, same in my family. I have pics of my mom on the beach in the 70s post babies and she was thin as a model. Though we all got ours later around 13/14. I was one of the kids embarrassed about not having it and having all my supplies ready years before I needed them.
I like watching music documentaries from the 60s and 70s, which generally feature a lot of concert footage of young people, and that's where the weight/fat difference is hugely striking. Huge crowds of people in their teens and 20s and everyone is skinny. It's actually much more noticeable wrt the men than it is the women, because they have no fat OR muscles...they're all just skinny birds compared to nowadays.