the complete guide to belly shapes & body types

[Jane Doe]

hey, been thinking about why no one has done this yet: a list of adjectives, descriptions, and physical traits to help writers on here craft their characters for their stories. so after doing some research and examining many, many models on **, i've compiled a list of all the body types and belly shapes i could find with pictures and examples for each attached below:

belly types

type 1: pudgy - a pudgy belly is the soft looking midriff that is commonly found on skinny to average-weight girls who have recently started putting on weight. this is the basis for which all the other types exist.

type 2: the pooch - a pooch belly is when the lower part of the stomach beneath the belly button protrudes farther than the upper abdomen. this is usually caused by girls wearing their pants up to their belly button, causing the weight to be distributed unevenly. they can be big or small and hard as rock or 100% soft fat.

type 3: ball gut - a ball gut is round, hard and firm. it has the feeling of a bowling ball or medicine ball and is extremely smooth. another name for it is a "beer belly" but i've changed it since you don't even have to drink beer to get one. basically being pregnant without actually being. like the pooch, it comes in a variety of shapes and sizes.

type 4: jelly belly - like the ball gut, except softer, squishier and jigglier. sticks out but doesn't hang.

type 5: slightly deflated jelly belly - similar to a jelly belly but slightly less round. stomach is still bloated and convex without overhang but is more steep looking from a side-profile. it angles downward a tad, slanting from the top and getting rounder near the bottom, instead of going completely out. a side-profile might look like a right triangle with a rounded bottom instead of a sharp corner. the name comes from the fact that it has the appearance of a slightly deflated balloon

type 6: muffintop - a muffintop is a very unique kind of belly. it is almost completely flat from a side profile but is still clearly heavier and bigger than the stomach of an average toned person. it doesn't have a real definite shape and spills over like jello when pants are put on, giving the appearance of a muffin in a liner.

type 7: pure dough - a pure dough belly is the loosest and softest belly you could possibly get. it almost has the appearance of loose skin but isn't exactly. when sitting down, it compresses into a ball of fat that spills over into your lap. like with most of these categories, they can be both big and small.

type 8: double belly (vertical) - a vertical double belly is when there is a sort of dividing indentation going down from the bottom of the navel to the bikini region/pelvic area. this causes more weight to be distributed on each side of the stomach and hang lower than the middle causing a sort of "crest & trough" effect. urban dictionary calls it a "butt stomach" but i changed it to something less crude and more "sophisticated".

type 9: double belly (horizontal) - a horizontal double belly is when there is a shadowed indentation going across a girl's stomach, separating the belly button and upper part of the waist. belly button is usually pushed higher up to match up with the fold line. despite popular belief, this can be found on skinny and average sized girls too. the difference between this and a pooch belly is that there's an even distribution of weight on both sides of the line. one side isn't protruding past the other.

(update) type 8 + type 9 = tri-belly - a tri-belly is the two double bellies combined. this causes the stomach to be split both ways, creating 3 separate parts: the northern region which consists of everything above the belly button (which tends to be triangular shaped on a tri-belly; the 3 points on the corners of the navel is what causes the stomach to separate around it), the southwestern region, which is the left love handle and everything else on the left side below the belly button, and the southeastern region, which is the right part of the lower stomach.

type 10: reverse pooch - a reverse pooch is when the upper abdomen is more bloated than the lower abdomen. nothing really much else to add.

type 11:  rolly-polly - the rolly-polly belly is droopy, flabby and lumpy with one or more rolls going down it horizontally. also known as "jelly rolls".

type 12: chubby - the chubby belly is one of the more recognizable kinds. it's when the bulge becomes more pronounced and more fat is stored in the front making the navel appear to be squashed. this is where the overhang starts to begin.

type 13: squeezed dough - the squeezed dough belly is probably the oddest one on this list and is fairly uncommon. the belly almost looks as if it's been squeezed or kneaded like dough. there's indentations or large dimples on each side of the torso or abdomen as if it has been pressed really hard there, causing the belly to extend outward like playdough. sometimes, it may even be divided into 4 parts like a really flabby 4-pack, making the navel look like a 4 pointed star.

type 14: super chubby - the super chubby belly is the one everyone knows and loves. it's super big and hangs a lot. navel usually becomes flattened and pushed up as more fat is stored. typically found on girls who have been heavy for a while.

body shapes

regardless of what kind of belly a girl has, there is always a certain body type that they are naturally born with

shape 1: pear - a pear body type is very bottom-heavy with huge love handles. this body type can even be found on girls that are slimmer and more toned, not just pudgy or chubby. thicker thighs and wider hips usually coincide with this.

shape 2: hourglass - an hourglass body type is similar to a pear except the curve starts farther up the waist, whereas a pear shape curve starts at the lower abdomen near the belly button. an hour glass also has less of a curve and in some cases, the sides slope directly downwards.

shape 3: apple / rectangle - the two are quite similar so i'm just gonna lump them together. an apple and rectangle body type is what you get when there's barely any curve. the waist and hips go straight down. rectangle is usually referring to girls of smaller physique while apple is usually referring to thicker or stockier girls.

shape 4: inverted triangle - the inverted triangle body type is what happens when a girl carries more weight in her chest/breasts than hips or waist. just like the apple body type, there's barely any curvature around the hips/waist. but the major distinction is that a lot of the fat is carried in the jugulars and midsection than the thighs/butt area. (couldn't find any good images for this body type so just imagine a busty girl with skinny legs and not any curve around her hips or waist)

 

bonus: belly button types

just thought i'd throw this in cuz why not?

circle - the standard one almost everyone has.

oval - looks like an oval. self explanatory.

triangle - looks like a triangle. self explanatory.

vertical - has the appearance of a vertical line going straight down.

horizontal - has the appearance of a horizontal line going straight across.

frowning - like a horizontal but slightly bending at each end like an arc. it also isn't always squished together making it look a straight line. sometimes, there's some space so you can see see how deep the navel is.

arrow - like a triangle belly button except the fat on the stomach folds over it, squishing it together and allowing barely any dark space in the belly button to show. this makes it look like an arrow head or an upside down "v".

4-point star - mentioned this before. this is where the fat on the stomach squishes the navel into the shape of a diamond or star. very unique.

 

butt types

flat and wide - common on pear or hour glass shaped girls. hips stick out, making the butt more stretched out and wide but isn't that round from a side profile. this makes the crease between the butt cheeks and thighs look like a horizontal line when their legs and pressed together instead of the usual 2 curved or rounded arcs side by side, like a sideways "3".

bubble butt - typically found on apple or rectangle shaped girls. this is when the rear end is rounded and sticks out but there's no hips to go along with it, giving their backside a flat and not curvy outline. there's also usually an indentation or dimple on each side of the butt, as if the cheeks are being clenched.

thick - the best of both worlds. the one everyone knows and loves. a round bubbly booty but with hips and thick thighs to match.

heart shaped - kind of droops lower and is more rounded near the bottom, giving it an upside down heart or pear shape.

 

addl traits

you can add these to your character as you please

stretchmarks - lines on the stomach caused by stretching of the skin. usually a darker or lighter shade of the skin.

linea nigra - almost looks like a happy trail but isn't. a shaded line going down from the lower abdomen at the center of the belly button and down to the bikini line. usually associated with pregnancy but isn't always the case.

cellulite - bumps and dimples on the stomach and butt. commonly found on more overweight people however, only moderately or slightly chubby girls have been known to get it as well.

creases - a crease is the indentation that separates the stomach from the love handles or pelvic region. some are more noticeable and deeper than others.

 

anyways, that's all i have for now. will add more as time goes on. hope this helps you as much this helped me.

[John Smith]

Thanks for your sharing.

[Jane Doe]

you're welcome :)

[docroxxo]

This is really nice, thanks

[Hirsch von Bork]

Fascinating.

Just a comment: I would never use  Ashley Graham as an example of rectangle. She es more like a pear or a hourglass

[Jane Doe]

yeah. in other photos her sides appear to be more curvy, but in that picture there's not as much curvature for some reason

[Liliumargiope]

Hello I'm new here so I'm not sure about body types but basically I've had this same indent on my belly my whole life. It's very noticeable in natural light and stretches across my belly like a scar. No. Ive never had a c section or b**s. I'm just wondering is it normal? Is there a cause? Is there underlying health problems with it ? Or is it common???? How can I lose it. :c (I threw some stickers on here so you couldn't see my nether regions lol)

[Liliumargiope]

Here's another picture. Any advice about my body type would be really helpful because I've taken a dozen quizzes and I'm not sure where I fit in, my lifestyles quite sedentary but also I gain weight awful in my arms and the sides of my upper thighs (saddle bags) ?? I figure if I know I could do something about it and learn the proper eating and exercise. 

[imp]

7 hours ago, Liliumargiope said:

Hello I'm new here so I'm not sure about body types but basically I've had this same indent on my belly my whole life. It's very noticeable in natural light and stretches across my belly like a scar. No. Ive never had a c section or b**s. I'm just wondering is it normal? Is there a cause? Is there underlying health problems with it ? Or is it common???? How can I lose it. :c (I threw some stickers on here so you couldn't see my nether regions lol)

If you look at a diagram of female abdominal muscles, you'll see a transition from your abs down into your pelvis. Those end at about the same place, but there are some spots where muscle runs through both areas. It's not a line and a divot. It's a lot of little lines and divots. The reason you can see it is because you have very little fat between your muscles and your skin, so we can see it on you more than other people. It's just your physiology. The only way not to have it would be to put on some weight.

Your body type is a thin hourglass. You put weight on where you put weight on (arms and saddlebags) because genetically there's more fat cells in those areas. There's no way to change that. There's no such thing as spot gaining or spot losing. I think you're a little hypersensitive to very small variations in your body. Bodies are just that way. The closer you look, the more little undulations and bumps you'll see. I hope you can get past that because you look gorgeous. By the way, there are a lot of people here who would think chubby arms and saddlebags would look very cute.

[nardawg831]

This dude has no idea what he is talking about most of the time you cannot tell what shape a woman is when they are as small as the examples he gives. SO many women change shape as they get bigger and half of the women he uses examples of have changes shape since he used these outdated pictures. Good lord. Its a spectrum of round belly or double belly as well as bottom heavy and people slide up and down on that spectrum there is no set shapes and a double belly girl at 180 could be a round ball gut at 400 and vice versa. 

[wannabefattiealex]

Thank you, I just have a question, How could a male get a double belly like this. To me it is super hot. Pleaase and thank you.

[chubby_cron]

Does this apply to males or just female?

@Jane Doe 

[chefthembo CLIPS]

On 11/9/2022 at 5:22 PM, wannabefattiealex said:

Thank you, I just have a question, How could a male get a double belly like this. To me it is super hot. Pleaase and thank you.

Unfortunately fat distribution isn't something we can control, it's largely genetic  but double bellies do tend to be soft subcutaneous fat (the squishy/doughy type fat) opposed to visceral fat (which gives the more hard ball-type appearance). Not smoking or drinking, reducing stress, and doing light cardio could theoretically give you better chances, if only by minimizing how much of your gains would be visceral. 

[hiiigg]

Anyone know who the one on the bottom left of 2: Pooch is?