Could this be the reason behind celebrities' giant children? As Kourtney Kardashian's son becomes the latest example of the trend

It was the bizarre representation that sparked a 1000 net memes earlier this month.

Gary Barlow's son, 24, was seen towering implicit his father, making the 53 year-old look borrower-like successful sature. 

The images led societal media users to excavation retired images of different 'giant' personage children — including Bear Grylls' 18 year-old son, Mamaduke and, Donald Trump's lad Barron Trump, 18, and astir recently, Kourtney Kardashian's eldest son, Mason, 14.

Now, a caller survey presented astatine the American Heart Association Conference successful Chicago, has offered an mentation for the phenomenon. 

Experts from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine successful New York examined information from 13,000 Americans of Latino and Hispanic descent, including details similar their height, socioeconomic upbringing and genetics.

The findings revealed that, of the factors that find however gangly we become, household income was the 2nd strongest indicator, down genetics. 

While 70-80 per cent of however gangly we go lies with the genes we inherit from our parents, the remainder is determined by our environment.

Previous studies person recovered that sleep, accent and entree to healthcare are each important factors.

But the experts recovered increasing up successful a wealthier household whitethorn trump different contributors. 

The squad wrote this whitethorn bespeak 'better nutrition and societal resources to beforehand growth'.

They besides recovered this tallness was besides linked to amended bosom wellness and cognitive abilities among children. 

However, they noted the bosom wellness gains could beryllium reversed successful aboriginal adulthood erstwhile manner factors similar obesity from eating excessively galore calories caught up with them. 

All celebs' children travel from affluent households. 

Take That vocalist Gary Barlow has reportedly raked successful a whopping £90million fortune, portion Kourtney is acceptable to be worth immoderate £28million.

Professional adventurer Bear Grylls reportedly made £8.2 cardinal this twelvemonth alone. 

All are eclipsed by Trump nevertheless who has a nett worthy of reportedly £5billion, though arsenic overmuch of the president's assets are tied up successful the banal worth of his ain companies.

The findings echo a erstwhile British survey that recovered children from poorer areas successful England were implicit 4 times much apt to measurement beneath the mean tallness for their property compared to those successful much affluent areas. 

A wealthiness of information besides shows that children from richer countries are, connected average, taller than those from poorer ones.

The tallness of British children, and it's nexus to nutrition, became a governmental talking constituent earlier this year. 

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer attacked the past Conservative Government implicit figures that showed the UK is falling successful the planetary rankings for kid height.

The country's mean for five-year aged girls fell 27 places successful planetary comparisons betwixt 1985 and 2019, below Portugal, Turkey and Brazil. 

For boys, Britain has dropped 33 places implicit the aforesaid period, trailing Egypt, Haiti, Ukraine and Argentina. 

Data besides showed British five-year-olds are connected mean 7cm shorter than Dutch children, with a mediocre fare being blamed by immoderate experts. 

The mean five-year-old lad successful the UK is 44.3in (112.5cm) gangly compared with 47.1in (119.6cm) successful the Netherlands.

The mean miss is astir 43.9in (111.5cm) gangly portion her Dutch adjacent is 46.6in (118.3cm), nationalist information collected by the Non-Communicable Diseases Risk Factor Collaboration shows.

Charities and nutrient campaigners person been speedy to blasted junk nutrient diets affluent successful ultra-processed foods successful Britain for stunting children's growth. 

A report by The Food Foundation recovered the mean tallness of five-year-olds has been falling since 2013, with British boys ranked shortest and girls 2nd shortest among developed nations. 

The charity's study noted this autumn successful tallness followed a simplification successful the depletion of cardinal nutrients successful the mean UK diet, including calcium, zinc, vitamin A, folate and iron.