The Shape Women Are In

If shop mannequins were real women, they would be too thin to menstruate and bear children.

There are three billion women on the planet who don't look like supermodels and only eight who do.

Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood sex goddess, wore a size twelve.

If Barbie were a real woman, she'd have to walk on all fours. Because of her unrealistic proportions, she could not balance on her long legs and tiptoes.

Also, her narrow body would have room for only half a liver and a few inches of intestines instead of the usual twenty-six feet. The result would be chronic diarrhea and death from malabsorption of nutrients.

The average American woman weighs 144 pounds and wears a size twelve or fourteen.

One out of every four college-aged women uses unhealthy methods of weight control, including fasting, skipping meals, excessive exercise, laxative abuse, and self-induced vomiting.

Models in fashion magazines are airbrushed and retouched. In real life they look more like the rest of us than their glossy print images.

A psychological study in 1995 found that after just three minutes spent looking at models in a fashion magazine, 70% of women reported feeling depressed, guilty, and ashamed of their bodies.

Twenty years ago models weighed eight percent less than the average woman. Today they weigh twenty-three percent less, and many fall into an anorexic weight range.

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