“…However, it was limited by the difficulty in generalizing its results to broader populations, due to the high maternal education level and income of our study population. Besides that, although the adopted definition of dissatisfaction (the existence of a difference between the perceived and the desired silhouette equal to zero) is widely used in previous studies [ 4 , 9 , 10 , 12 , 13 , 15 , 16 , 30 ], it may have overestimated the number of mothers dissatisfied with their own body and with their children’s bodies, since the degree of dissatisfaction was not evaluated. Also, the silhouette scale only evaluated maternal dissatisfaction towards child size, not taking into account possible dissatisfaction with height or muscularity.…”