The “stomach fat is literally the womb [or uterus]” is a persistent, popular claim: In 2020, health influencer and dietitian Colleen Christensen posted an image on her No Food Rules Instagram account reassuring her followers “that [the] bump at the bottom of your stomach is your uterus.”
Christensen shared how frustrated she was that she couldn’t get a flat stomach until a friend put her at ease by explaining that “that bump is organs.”
As Christensen soon learned from her comment section, that’s not really the case: Internal organs do take up space in your body, but the uterus ― a thick-walled, hollow organ where the fetus develops during pregnancy ― is located in the female pelvis between the bladder and rectum, not in the stomach. (To Christensen’s credit, she later updated her post with more information for her followers.)
Dr. Lisa Erlanger, a clinical professor of family medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, broke it down further for us in an email interview: “The bony part contains the uterus and ovaries,” she said. “The hips are wider and tilted differently for women, which naturally gives a different look, but the uterus typically isn’t in what we consider the stomach.”
There are also a lot of other body structures in that region that we need, said Dr. Stephanie Trentacoste McNally, the director of OB-GYN services at the Katz Institute for Women’s Health.
“In that part of our anatomy, there are many layers, from skin to fascia ― which is the strong tissue that holds you together ― muscle, nerves, blood vessels, connective tissue, and fat,” she told HuffPost.
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