Onset of cellulite in women can occur anytime after puberty, as estrogen levels rise. Higher levels of estrogen act in multiple ways to help start and perpetuate cellulite.

In the formative stages of cellulite your body attempts to repair connective tissue damage by making more connective tissue. This does not work so well because pressure problems, fluid problems, inflammation, and free radicals have weakened the existing connective tissue structure to the point that fat cells have slipped out of alignment and taken up irregular shapes due to all the various stressors on them. This means the new connective tissue goes around the ...