can everyone (women) become a size 0 or 2??

Is it possible for almost every woman to be a size 0 or 2?? I am large framed, but I am a size 8 (with at least 20+ pounds to spare) and I was just wondering if women were able to get very thin?? (I am not saying it wouldn't be unhealthy)

I just don't think that there is some women who are 'bigboned' that
the 'smallest' they can be is a size 10.. Some may abuse the term to be 'bigboned' because they are heavy..

sorry for my rambling.. it is late and I am fantasising about jeans in size 27 LOL

I am very small framed but carry most of my weight in the belly and back. At my lowest, I was in the 130's...but still a size 12! The pants waist was too big but I needed a 12 to cover my hips and gut. I was also unfortunately flat chested and had NO butt!

I can't imagine any possible way for me to be a size 4. I'm 5'8". Our family joke is that we were assembled backwards. If the fat on our backs was in front and the rolling gut was in back, we'd look m a h v e l o u s!

Now I' a size 22...a 12 is looking pretty good to me!

No there's no way all women could be a size 2 or 0 simply because it doens't matter how much weight you lose, your hip structure will always be the same (unless you have children and "grow" a bit of hips like I did lol). 

There are some brands of pants I can fit into that are a zero, but if they have no give, or ride a bit lower, then I need a size 2 because of my hips.  It all depends!

Who cares anyways what pant size you are?  As long as you feel good about your body and are enjoying life, a zero, 2, or 4 isn't going to make that big of a difference in the long run :)

Sometimes stores have way different sizing. I used to work at Banana Republic where I was a size 0 there, but everywhere else (American Eagle, Club Monaco), I am a size 4 or 6! So customers always came into Banana Republic and would say something like, "wow, i'm a size 2? no way!" or the size 0 wouldn't even fit and be too big on sooOO many people.
I think stores think they can sell more if ppl believe their pant size is a smaller number.

I did that exact thing after my first child.  I went store to store until I found the smallest label size that fit.  There was something I just couldn't mentally handle with the size larger, even though we all know I didn't miraculously lose weight when I walked into the store.

As for me, there is NO WAY I could ever be a 0.  I skipped that size in early adolescence.  I went from a girls' 14 slim to a women's size 6 in a matter of months.  At my thinnest in HS, when running track etc I was a 10-12.  The only way that I could ever be a 0 is to be dead.

dbackerfan - ever try 'low-rise' pants? or 'drop waist' pants? I have small waist but momma hips, and find that wearing low rise solve the problem of the gaping at my lower back. The current trsnd of longer tops now helps hide the expose areas if you prefer to keep it out of public sight. :)

This thought just came to me.
I start noticing that there are actually more and more girls/women who are really really tiny or petite. I am not just talking short as in height, but they are proportionally small all around. Second observation that most of these petite women are Asian. No, these people are not anorexic thin/skinny. They are average. Just small. You know how we all tend to think companies are 'fixing' the sizes so that women feel better. May not be the sole reason that the sizes now extend below 0 (or push what was 0 to 2). Companies are going global, and they just need to include a larger market. To have 2 standard sizing for different region in the world just doesn't make sense for business.

Ok, tht's just my .02 *as I munch my wwb w/ egg & cheese breakfast*
Oh on the other end, I also notice there are more and more larger people, and more companies who usually don't have larger size, now started making 2 extra sizes upward. We got about 4 extra new sizes in the market. No wonder the line to the fitting room is getting longer & longer :)

Nope - some people are just bigger built than others.

Nope, not every woman can be a size 0.

When my mom was in college, my dad told me she was really, REALLY active. She ran 5 miles everyday, was on a dance team, was on a swim team, and pretty much exercised so much that "moving her pinky finger would hurt." lol Pretty much, he told me her lowest weight was a very muscular and ripped 136 lbs and she was a size 9 at that time. He also told me that if she lost anymore weight, she'd look very sick.

I have pretty much the same body type as my mom and I know if she was never a size 0, I'd definitely wouldn't ever be one either except if I tore all the fat and muscle off of my body and chisled away a few inches from my bones. It's just not in our genes (no pun intended). :D

i have a best friend who is about 10-15 lbs smaller than me (her weight fluctuates as does mine so that's the range) and she has pretty wide hips, while i have rather small hips. i fit into 0's right now but she can only wear 3's, and we are the same height with a 10-15 lb difference between us. her legs would fit into the 0's better than mine do...but my hips are too small for the size 2 or 3's that i own. we both have very small frames but i am around 125 and she is around 110-115 and we ar eboth 5'7" with tiny frames...she is just a ballerina and i do track so the muscle mass is different and it's bothering me lol. i would love to be her weight, then my 0's wouldn't be so tight haahaa. the largest i have been is around a size 5/7. 

I totally agree. Every woman is different. I'm large-framed according to the CC test (my fingers don't touch when I wrap them around my wrist.)

At my thinnest I was 140 and a size 5 and people told me all the time I needed to stop losing weight because I was too thin. I knew I was also because my ribs jutted out so much that the skin around my ribs was bruised. Right now I'm 195 and a size 12/13. I tend to wear smaller sizes because I've always carried a lot of muscle weight because I'm athletic.

Everyone is different. That's why it's best to find a goal (weight or size) that is right for you. I'm going for 155lb or a size 7/8.

I am 6' tall and have very large bones.  (Fingers do not meet around my wrist, and I hardly have stubby fingers.)  At one time (at the height of my athleticism) I weighed as little as 150ish lb and was well proportioned - and got attention as such.

The smallest pants I wore at that weight were 10/12 longs.  I don't believe size 0 pants off of any company would fit onto my dry skeleton, much less any living weight, even an unhealthy one.

Then again, I am an unusually large woman.  But no, not all women have a snowball's chance in h*ll of ever fitting into size 0 pants.

Well..I'm sorry to say this, but the truth is yes. If you stripped us down to our bare skeletons and muscles, we would all fit into 00 - 2 sizes. There ARE different sized frames, of course, but not drastic enough that, with enough lean muscle and little body fat, one couldn't fit into a size 0 - 2.

HOWEVER, although we COULD fit into a size 0 - 2 if we diet enough/starve enough/live in misery forever, most women want to do that. Besides, a size 0 - 2 can be very unhealthy, especially if you got there by unnatural causes. Stay at a healthy size your body maintains naturally and then you won't have to measure every single calorie for the rest of your life.

Also, it depends largely on your height. A size 0 - 2 jeans will probably be way too short for a thin woman who is 5'10", although it would most likely fit everywhere else.

I think I'd have to lose all my extra weight until I was skin and bones and then be cut in half to fit into a size 0. I will be positively thrilled if I ever fit into a 5/6 and will probably cry and dance in the store if or when I ever do. Some people just aren't meant to be that small, and by some, I think it's more like most.

we always thought my sister was "big boned" at 250lbs then when she got down to 120lbs she was just as small framed as me. but some women do have big hips and bone structure that won't allow them to get into that small of a size.

Size has more to do with proportion. I am 5 feet tall, currently 117, about 29% Body fat (if you trust the Tanita, which I'm told runs heavy) and I'm medium framed by any measure (you can find this out by either measuring your wrist or your elbow).

After losing about 5 lbs, I'm currently back into a size 2 in regular clothes and a size 4 in petites. Another 5 lbs from now I will be in size 0 regulars and size 2 p's. I will not lose any more than that, because then I'll be relegated to size 12's in the girl's department and I HATE THAT. The clothes aren't as stylish, mature enough for my 41 years, and also are cheaply and poorly constructed.

One reason I began this diet is because size 4 regulars and size 6 p's are completely the wrong proportion for me. They'll fit in my waist (where I carry my fat) but will be way too long in the rise and too loose on the hips (yes, even when I'm overweight). To get the clothes to flatter, I'd have to spend a fortune on massive tailoring.

Incidentally the other day I tried on JCrew jeans. The size 29's fit my hips and thighs, but were kinda weird at the waist... comfortable and not tight, but they road up funny... a function of the rise being too long, I think. But the 28's were way too tight all over and although I could zip them, I couldn't sit in them.

I hate shopping for jeans.

I will never fit in a size 0/1....honestly..I'll never fit in anything smaller than a 10...for sure.  I'm 5'10" and at my "skinniest" which was 237 pounds, I wore a size 16.  My goal is to get under 200 pounds or around a size 12.  Anything smaller than that I'll just look weird!

beckab00, your goal is wonderful. However, I would just like to say that you wouldn't look "weird" being smaller than 200 lbs or a size 12. It would just feel weird to you, because you aren't used to seeing yourself thay way.

Wow, size 0-2....haha... i could never fit that, i mean i have huge thighs but small hips...i wear a size 11/12/13( im sure i could fit in a 4/5 if my thighs werent so big) . I would go to hell and back just to be a size 8/9.  once thick grils relize that their hips are just to wide to fit a size 0 im sure that will help with the eating disorders. also there is no such thing as BIG BONED....  everyones bones are pretty much the same size its really how the bones are Proportioned....wide or narrow.

It sucks  men have it way easier than women

Not every woman can get there whatsoever for all the reasons mentioned above ... some would have to be on their death beds!

But I am sure as hell trying to get down to a size 2. I am a tiny petite 5'1" woman who spent most of her life size 2 until my mid-20s when I puffed up to a 8-10. 8-10 is a ghastly size for my height and build and I have never felt more miserable than when I made the conscious choice to change. Now I am a 4-6 (the 4 is vanity sized I am sure) and I am much happier already!

Not possible for every woman in my opinion. I am 5'9" and relatively light- I am at the low end of a healthy BMI as I am mostly small-framed- except my hips, meaning the actual bones of my pelvis. They are quite wide, even though I am carrying no extra fat I am still a US size 6. No amount of weight lost will shrink my bones and make my pelvis narrower.

Actually I could probably eventually fit into a size 0 or 2 if I lost a large amount of weight, but I would probably also be dead...

I am 18 years old and have been over weight since I was 9. Last year I got down to 165 but because of stress at school I am up to 175 now. I would give anything to lose enough weight to fit into a size 4/6 jeans. If I could choose, I would definetely go for the 4/6 than the 0/2. That size just wouldn't be normal for my medium frame. I have very large hips and thighs. According to what I have calculated, if I went down to 125, I could just about fit into a 4/6 and according to my BMI that would be my ideal weight.