Not any more. It used to (sort of) be written that way. But it didn't always apply even then. Now, it is simply about whether it was deliberate or the arm was making the body unnaturally bigger. If it is making the body unnaturally bigger for what the player is doing, it remains handling even if it hits the body first. (Hitting the body first may have a subjective effect on the referee's judgment as to whether it was making the body unnaturally bigger for what the player was doing.