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Easy. It's known as skinny fat. Caused by having very little muscle mass. Muscle weighs more than fat so the bmi would be much higher if there more more muscle. More common in women, who tend to have higher percentage body fat and lower muscle mass than men naturally.

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Q: How can you have a borderline underweight BMI but an above average body fat percentage?
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