In our modern era, supermodels – supposedly the pinnacle of ideal female body types - tend to have a very well-known, slender look. (Ultimate Destiny / Public Domain ) Modern Ideal (Or that’s what was said at least, but Venus had other plans.) Growing bored with the conversation, the 12 Olympians decided that rather than quibble about the minute details of body attractiveness, they’d simply let the humans fight it out on earth. What should women look like? What mathematical percentage of body-fat distribution would be the fittest and most attractive? They’d come up with the idea of humans, but they couldn’t decide what might look best. Their disagreement of that day? Waist-to-hip ratio. High on Mount Olympus the gods sat quarrelling. Who started this ‘ideal body’ thing anyway? Perhaps we could start by blaming the gods. Is it Kim Kardashian, with her popular ‘internet-breaking’ big behind, or Marilyn Monroe with her voluptuous movie curves? Is it a powerful and athletic Beyoncé? What about the waif-like, angular fashion models on the catwalks? For thousands of years, we’ve been changing our minds about what the perfect body looks like. We all know what the perfect woman’s body looks like.
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