pear-shaped_figure

📅 Updated:2026-08-30

🕒 Created:2022-01-21

🆔 ID:39922

Description

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A pear-shaped figure describes a character with wide hips paired with a narrower upper body and shoulders. They will have comparatively lower fat-mass around their torso/waist and commonly have thicker thighs and/or a larger butt. If the character has breasts, they will usually have small to medium-sized breasts, or, more loosely, breasts that are noticeably smaller in comparison to the size of the characters lower body and hips. This figure resembles a pear, and is a commonly used term in fashion and beauty circles.

This tag can be applied to a range of similarly pear-shaped bodies (see examples above). A character doesn't need to be chubby or overweight to be pear-shaped, but this figure is more common with chubby/overweight characters.

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Tagging Notes

[color=red]What isn't a Pear-Shaped Figure:[/color]

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Do not add this tag to characters who merely have wide hips or big butts (consider bottom heavy instead)
Do not add this tag if the character's lower body only appears larger due to their pose or perspective (ie. a low-angle view), or butt shot/butt focus images where the character has no distinct figure)
Characters with pear shaped figures will never have broad shoulders or hyper breasts, and rarely have huge breasts.
A character tagged as pear-shaped figure should never be tagged as hourglass figure or voluptuous, these are different body shapes.

Pear Shaped Vs. Bottom Heavy:

Both tags describe characters with lower bodies that are wider than their upper bodies, however...

pear-shaped is intended to be subtler, more realistic or natural
- a pear shaped figure should always have a "flow" of curving out from a narrower upper body, to wider midsection/waist, to wide hips and thick thighs

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bottom heavy is broader, and often applies to exaggerated figures, sometimes with disproportionately wide lower bodies and very small upper bodies
- bottom heavy figures usually have huge or hyper hips, thighs, and butt
- bottom heavy can apply to semi-anthro characters, pear-shaped should not be used for semi-anthro or feral characters

For characters with toony proportions, and nearly spherical exaggerated lower bodies that resemble pears, see hyper pear.