Independent changes in female body shape with parity and age: A life‐history approach to female adiposity

Both aging and reproduction have been shown to influence female body shape in industrialized populations, involving redistribution of fat from lower to upper body regions. However, the extent to which effects of parity vary by age and the extent to which age affects shape independent of parity remain unclear. We studied shape variability in relation to age and parity in a cross‐sectional survey of 4,130 white British women, using...