No. The statement is an oversimplification of a complicated process and is also inaccurate.
I assume the point the magazine was trying to make is that girls grow the fastest shortly before menstruation starts. This is true. This time of rapid growth is called the growth spurt. It usually occurs around age twelve for girls, [...]
27
Jan
2009
I read in a magazine that after a girl has had her period she only grows less than one more inch. Is this true?
Tags: Adolescence, breast buds, growth spurt, physical change, slow growth, teen body, teenager body
