Monday, February 13, 2012

Body Images


When did skin and bones showing become more attractive then curves? In the 1950s the average women’s ideal body is what we would chubby today. Marilyn Monroe was the ideal to look up to with her height being 5 feet by 5 1/2 inches, weight about 118, bra size 36D, size 12 in a dress and a size 8 in jeans. Even when she gained about 22 pounds she was still viewed as a sex goddess. Although comparing to todays ideal female it is 117 pounds with the height of 5’11. It is really sad how girls today look up to girls with un-healthy weight rather then the healthy weight. What we call “chubby” was beauty  in the 1950’s......

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