Skinny vs. Curvy...which one is more attractive ? Another thing that the media makes us worry about our body is which one is more attractive. Being curvy or being skinny. To be honest, this question has been has been up on my ming ever since I saw an article saying that "Curvy is the new skinny" All my life, I thought that being being skinny was more attractive. It's confusing, right ? Take a moment to actually think, what is more attractive ? Haha, well, the anwser is, I don't know. Socia media has been throwing to faces that being skinny is more attractive, AND THEY STILL DO ! Yet now, we don't know what's more attractive.

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For years, celebrities been our models, it's always been like that. The famous Kim Kardashian is also very known on many platform. She is an inspiring woman, yet she is the one that introduced the whole being "curvy" is attractive. She is mostly known for being curvy. Although people know that Kim has done plastic surgery, young girls still want to look like her. That is where the term "Hourglass Figure" came from, as for the an hourglass is pretty curvy. They are many questions to what is more attractive or not. According to lovemagnet.org, society says that 'skinny' is celebrated, while 'fleshy' is frowned. The word curvy may be used to call somone that is 'over-weight' or just 'big' in size, yet they are many types of definitions. Therefore, that is why a lot of female folks are being body shamed for being thick. With this comes the feeling of insecurity. I mean, just imagine being put in a situation where you are being called 'fat'. That would be terrible. You would be forced to ask yourself the "skinny or curvy" question. You would constenly tell yourself to not eat one meal a day, because you would not want to end up in the "you are fat" type of comments. That is where the definition of curvy comes from.

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According to urbandictionary.com, the word curvy means "Curvy is used to describe women with a waist to hip ratio of about 70%. That is to say, their waist should be about 70% as wide as their hips. This word has been misappropriated as a euphemism for fat women. Their fat covers the difference between their waist and their hips so they have a ratio of 100%. Since women generally have wide hips it's the relative narrowness of the waist that produces the appearance of curves. Therefore, fat women are actually less curvy than skinny women." In this definition, being curvy means that a woman needs to have a small waist and wide hips, which is unimaginery. The thing with being curvy is that, the woman can be skinny. A curvy female can have a thigh gap, skinny arms, and skinny legs, but there is a term used to define women that are curvy, yet still considered thick. That's where the word "slim thick" comes in.

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According to urbandictionary.com, slim thick means "Slim thick a girl with a slim body shape but a big posterior and big thighs. Usually with a small waist and flat stomach." That is also where the word 'Slim thicc' comes from.  This body type is the kind of body type Kim Kardashian, Beyonce, J Lo, and many female inflencers have. This body type has been achieved through heavy workouts, and plastic surgery. This body type is also very unrealistic and depressing. Not only did it come out of nowhere, but not everyone wants to look unrealistic ! Many girls want to achive this body type, yet it's very hard to get. Many guys can be like "A slim thick girl is fine", well guess what ?, not very girl can reach that type of body type. Every body type is beautiful the way it is. Everyone is beautiful. You are beautiful, she is beautiful, every female you see is beautiful, you !

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Many sites have said that men do prefer curvy girls, yet the media still makes us believe that being super skinny is attractive. A post on Daily Mail showed a study which was carried out to determine which body type men really prefer. In the study, ten volunteers (men) were wearing eye-tracking devices to find out whether they like curvy, athletic or slim women. As these tracking devices would track which of the women they spent the most time looking at and thus the body type they spent the most time looking at. This study was a bit odd.  The slim girl scored the lowest with 29% of the glances, while the curvy girl scored the highest with 36%. Meanwhile, the girl with the athletic body came second with 35%. Researchers at Aberdeen University drew a conclusion that, evolutionary fitness determines what men find appealing.  This study made us undetsrand that men prefer athletic female, but the media still makes us believe that being super thin is attractive. This is pushing big women that are healthy to pay for the gym just to become skinny. Other skinny girls that ARE already skinny, still wanna achieve the skinny, which cause them to starve themselves ! This is a very big issue. Skinny ? Curvy ? Which one is attractive? No one knows the answer, since it's still hasn't been fully answered.

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