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Body Type Calculator

Discover your body shape silhouette (Hourglass, Pear, Rectangle, Apple, Inverted Triangle) and waist-to-hip health ratio with customized styling and fitness advice.

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Results

Your Body Shape Hourglass
Waist-to-Hip Ratio (WHR) 0.72 Low Risk
Bust / Waist / Hip Ratio 36" / 26" / 36"
Characteristics Balanced curves with a strikingly defined waist.
Wardrobe & Styling Guide
  • ✔ Wrap dresses, bodycon silhouettes, and tailored belted jackets.
  • ✔ V-neck, scoop, and sweetheart necklines.
  • ✔ Avoid shapeless, oversized boxy garments that hide waist definition.
Fitness Focus & Health Insights
  • • Maintain harmonious upper and lower body proportions.
  • • Compound multi-joint movements (deadlifts, rows, lunges).
WHO guideline: Low health risk (WHO benchmark < 0.80 for women). Healthy visceral fat distribution.

How to Take Accurate Anthropometric Measurements

Stand straight with your feet together, shoulders relaxed, and arms resting at your sides. Use a flexible, non-elastic fiberglass tape measure held parallel to the floor without compressing the skin.

1. Bust / Chest

Measure around the fullest part of your chest/bust across the shoulder blades in back.

2. Natural Waist

Measure around your narrowest circumference, roughly 1 inch (2.5 cm) above your navel.

3. High Hip

Measure across the top of your hip bones, approximately 4 inches (10 cm) below the waist.

4. Full Hip

Measure around the widest projection of your buttocks with heels together.

Health Context: Waist-to-Hip Ratio (WHR)

While body silhouettes celebrate personal style diversity, the Waist-to-Hip Ratio (WHR) is recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Harvard Medical School as a vital clinical biomarker of central adiposity. A lower ratio denotes peripheral fat storage (subcutaneous fat on hips and thighs), whereas a higher ratio indicates visceral fat encasing intra-abdominal organs, linked to hypertension, insulin resistance, and cardiovascular events.

Understanding your calculation

Method, example and limitations

How the calculation works

This tool compares bust, waist, high-hip and hip measurements using its silhouette classification rules. Ratios describe proportions, not biological body composition.

Example to check

A waist of 80 cm and hips of 100 cm give a waist-to-hip ratio of 0.8; a silhouette label also depends on the other entered measurements.

Before using the result

These are informal shape labels, not diagnoses, fitness potential or a required appearance. Tape placement and posture can change the result.

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