I have cankles - have had them since high school, although now, there's probably a bit more fat on them than there used to be. However, OP, no sympathy from me, because I absolutely do not modify my summer dressing to avoid exposing them. Maybe not true cankles, but you can have very thick calves and ankles without being otherwise fat.

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I’m only 4’11, and I’ve always had thick ankles, even in college when I weighed less than 95 pounds and wore size 0. I had awful cankles because I was retaining water like nobody's business by the end and there wasn't anything cute about that look. But the next summer I wore the exact same sandals on vacation and suddenly they looked cute, because my feet had returned to their normal size and I had some color. Night and day.

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