How to Finally Understand Your Body Shape

About this episode

Jennifer Mackey Mary discusses the confusion surrounding body shape labels and offers a new approach to understanding and dressing for your body shape.

If you've ever taken a body shape quiz only to feel more confused than when you started, you're not alone. Despite all the resources out there—quizzes, blog posts, entire businesses built around body types—understanding and dressing your shape remains the #1 challenge I hear from women. Today, I'm breaking down why traditional body shape labels like "apple," "pear," "hourglass," and "rectangle" aren't working for most of us. More importantly, I'm sharing a better way forward that doesn't requ...

Topics covered

• body shape
• fashion
• dressing
• body types

Keywords

• body shape quiz
• apple
• pear
• hourglass
• rectangle

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