I just finished watching a special on the Joy Behar Show that discussed issues of the female figure. The discussion was whether men like skinny women or fuller women. They cited Christina Hendricks as an example that men are looking for curvy women.
I made this exact point in my precious post. I do, however, think that a caveat needs to be provided. Women don’t look like Beyonce and Christina Hendricks unless they work out. And if they do, then that won’t last for too long.
Discussions like the one on the Joy Behar Show are misleading because it implies that men don’t care about women being in shape. Just because Hendricks is a size 12 does not mean that she is not in shape. She makes being a size 12 look damn good. Not everyone can pull that off though. It’s Hendricks’ CURVES that make her sexy, not the fact that she is a size 12. Guys aren’t really looking for a size 12 with no figure at all.
You also don’t have to be a size 12 to have curves. My eyes were glued to the screen when I saw Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow in Iron Man 2. While she is relatively petit, she still has dangerous curves. The same goes for every man’s favorite (fictional) example of the ideal woman: Jessica Rabbit.
So what’s the point in all this? I want women to know that guys aren’t looking for anorexic women. By the same token, I don’t want that to be construed as saying that we do not care about the figure. Just because men are into “curvy” women does not mean we are into all non-skinny women.
Update: I added a photo of Sophia Loren because she’s a classic hottie and to illustrate that the infatuation with curves isn’t new.
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