I suffer from pancake-butt syndrome. These jeans are cute. They look ridiculously small and they do fit my extra-large f(l)at bottom a bit tight, but there is definitely a little lift and rounding, I actually have a pleasantly plump bottom when wearing. Yay.I'm 5'6, about 185 and got the us18 size. They feel a bit tight, but not overly uncomfortable. I'm a bit disappointed because the backs of my thighs get that tell-tale sausage squeeze creasing from cramming my large thighs into the tiny, stretchy casings. But overall they're fine. I will be keeping them.The thing I truly hate however, is that they actually sewed pocket lines into these things (yay), but then they sewed them completely shut (boo). I'd probably rather have pockets, but if they're going to put faux pockets, I can live with that, however, it should be done as a facade on the outside only, not with actual pocketlining because these jeans are skin tight so the lining bulges, and for what? They're very cute in design except for that. I think my money is well spent and if they had another color with the back pockets (even if they're fake) I'd buy it, but I personally don't like the look of jeans booties without the pockets. Will keep a watch here just in case though.Im attaching a photo of the pocket design fail, and if I can get one of the jeans on later I'll add that too.My overall assessment is you should buy these Jean's, price is not bad at all for what you get.