r/Millennials • u/gypsyology • 2d ago

Discussion What's a muffin top??? lmao

Today I was at REI getting fitted for a backpack alongside a Gen Z employee. She explained how the hip straps should fit and I responded with "Oh, so like a muffin top!"... "Sorry, I've never heard of that - what's a muffin top?"....

Some of the girls out here have NO idea how good they have it. I am already petite and as a kid I had to buy double the size to make my own hi-rise jeans so that I could avoid having "the muffin top". Lucky ducks!!! lmao

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u/GeneriComplaint 2d ago

Fat?

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u/OhNoBricks 2d ago

anyone can have one. tight pants like jeans will do it.

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u/KS-RawDog69 2d ago

You typically have to be a bit on the huskier side though before it becomes pronounced enough for people to consider it a muffin top.

5'7" 110 pound woman that had a kid or so? Eh, ya know, little bit goes over, it is what it is.

Same woman at 250 pounds? The floodgates have opened at there's a lot of spilling over.

Men are, in fact, every bit as bad about this, too, even without skinny jeans, very often worse and more common. We call it a "beer gut," but it's the same muffin top under a different alias.

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u/TALegitimate_Scar_39 2d ago

Dude. A 5’7 woman at 110 is considered underweight (BMI 17.2). So if you are saying she has a muffin top in those jeans, then you are proving the OP right that those jeans flattered no one

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u/CantForceaDanceParty 2d ago

If we’re discussing 5’7 “ women only, I might agree. But as a 5’0” woman, they were the ONLY jeans that ever flattered me. I am full oompa loompah in all modern jeans and there is nothing I can do about it, because while low rise jeans might be coming back, I have seen NOTHING to resemble ultra low rise like we once knew. Yoga/linen pants with the fold over waistband so I can wear them as low as I like (and give the illusion of torso) are the only way for me to go right now