Did pregnancy make my body wider?

I used to be really petite and thin. I had a 23 inch waist and 33 inch hips. I was not very curvy at all, but I didn’t mind my petite body.

I gained a lot of weight and I am now currently about ten pounds away from my pre pregnancy weight, but even tho I am somewhat close, I just don’t see how losing 10 pounds is going to get me back to how I looked before.

My waist is 28 inches, so I’m happy with that. But the thing that is throwing me off is that my hips are 40 inches. I just don’t see how losing 10 pounds is going to get my hip size back to what it was.

Can pregnancy permanently widen your body? How can I get my hips back to where they were?