THE PRESENT INVENTION AIMS TO PROVIDE AN ABSORBENT ARTICLE (1) PROVIDED WITH THE LEAK-BARRIER WALLS (5) IMPROVED SO THAT GOOD FITNESS IS ASSURED AND LEAK SIDEWAYS OF EXCRETION SUCH AS MENSTRUAL BLOOD CAN BE RELIABLY PREVENTED. AN ABSORBENT ARTICLE HAS A SHAPE BEING RELATIVELY LONG IN A LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION AND COMPRISES A TOP LAYER, A BOTTOM LAYER, AN ABSORBENT CORE (4) HAVING A SHAPE BEING RELATIVELY LONG IN THE LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION AND A PAIR OF LEAK-BARRIER WALLS. EACH OF THE PAIR OF LEAK-BARRIER WALLS COMPRISES A PROXIMAL WALL SECTION (50) ADAPTED TO STAND UP ON THE TOP LAYER, A FIRST OVERHANG SECTION (51) EXTENDING OUTWARD IN A TRANSVERSE DIRECTION FROM THE VICINITY OF THE UPPER END OF THE PROXIMAL WALL SECTION AND PROVIDED WITH A PLURALITY OF FIRST ELASTIC MEMBERS (51B) ATTACHED UNDER TENSION THERETO SO AS TO EXTEND IN THE LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION OF THE ABSORBENT ARTICLE AND A SECOND OVERHANG SECTION (52) FORMED BELOW THE FIRST OVERHANG SECTION SO AS TO EXTEND OUTWARD IN THE TRANSVERSE DIRECTION FROM THE VICINITY OF THE UPPER END OF THE PROXIMAL WALL SECTION AND PROVIDED WITH SECOND ELASTIC MEMBERS (52B) ATTACHED UNDER TENSION THERETO SO AS TO EXTEND IN THE LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION OF THE ABSORBENT ARTICLE WHEREIN THE SECOND OVERHANG SECTION HAS STIFFNESS HIGHER THAN STIFFNESS OF THE FIRST OVERHANG SECTION.
