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Puberty
When is puberty officaly over for girls?
When they have their first period?
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Okay, puberty is one of those words that means different things to different people.
Some people would say puberty is just a stage in sexual developement that ends when a girl has her first period.
Doctors would tell you puberty ends when your bones stop growing. Bone developement in women continues till they are about 19 or 21 and it's stoping coincides with a decrease in the intesity of horomones. (For guys bone developement doesn't slow down untill 21 to 24, probably accounts for thier sex drives not slowing down till much later) So that is, as far as the doctors are concerned, the offical end of puberty. You keep growing a while after your sexual maturation takes place, although it certainly slows down.
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It kind of depends what you consider puberty...your breasts might stop growing at 18 (mine did) and I got taller and taller until I was 18, but i got my period when i was 14 so I really think it depends on the person. To give you a range, I'de say 16-18.
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I think it's like a year or two after they get their first period. You pretty much stop growing after you get your period.
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