DISCLOSED IS AN ABSORBENT ARTICLE INCLUDING: A LIQUID-PERMEABLE TOPSHEET (3) ON ITS SKIN SURFACE A BACKSHEET (2) ON ITS GARMENT SURFACE AND AN ABSORBENT LAYER (4) THEREBETWEEN. FIRST COMPRESSED PORTIONS (11) AND SECOND COMPRESSED PORTIONS (12), IN WHICH THE ABSORBENT LAYER IS COMPRESSED TOGETHER WITH AT LEAST THE TOPSHEET, EXTEND LONGITUDINALLY OF THE ABSORBENT ARTICLE. THE FIRST COMPRESSED PORTIONS ARE DISPOSED SYMMETRICALLY ABOUT A LONGITUDINAL CENTERLINE (OY-OY) OF THE ABSORBENT ARTICLE TO DEFINE A CENTRAL ABSORBENT PORTION (5) HAVING THE ABSORBENT LAYER THEREBETWEEN. THE SECOND COMPRESSED PORTIONS ARE DISPOSED SYMMETRICALLY ABOUT THE LONGITUDINAL CENTERLINE AND SPACED OUTWARDLY APART FROM THE FIRST COMPRESSED PORTIONS. WHEN THE CENTRAL ABSORBENT PORTION IS LATERALLY COMPRESSED BY AN EXTERNAL FORCE, RESILIENT PORTIONS (6) EACH DEFINED BETWEEN EACH ADJACENT PAIR OF FIRST AND SECOND COMPRESSED PORTIONS ARE PERMITTED TO EXERT A RESILIENCE AGAINST COMPRESSION ON THE CENTRAL ABSORBENT PORTION.
