Nigella Lawson - The Body Most Coveted by British Women
Sophia Loren - The Silverscreen goddess with the magnificent hourglass body
Women are slowly but surely moving away from thin and skinny body shapes. More and more, women are beginning to realize that curves are what makes a woman’s body attractive.
This was partially validated when British women in a recent poll cited Nigella Lawson’s body shape as the one that they would most like to have. This was also the trend in the results of the polls conducted at the end of this article. Not surprisingly, men too prefer women with curvy hourglass body shapes to straight ones. The reader poll conducted at the end of this article clearly yielded this result. The poll at the end of the article is still active and the reader is invited to vote his or her preference.
Nigella in the picture on the right epitomizes the hourglass shape that most women are starting to yearn for. The craze for the hour glass shape like that of Nigela Lawson has started.
Marilyn Monroe - End of hourglass body shape era.
Kate Winslet in a typical Edwardian Gown from the movie Titanic
Like fashion, it seems that the type of bodies that women yearn for also change with time. The hourglass shape was coveted in Edwardian times in the early 1900s.
In those days women wore fancy dresses and gowns that were designed to make
the hour glass shape of a woman to prominently stand out. You would typically see these sort of dresses worn in the movie Titanic.
This was further made famous on the silver screen by American actresses such as Jane Russel and later by Marilyn Monroe. The sexy and shapely bodies of silver screen divas like Jane Russell were coveted by millions.
Marilyn Monroe may have been at the end of the hourglass body shape era.
Jane Russell - The Sexy Hollywood Diva with the coveted hourglass body
Twiggy - Inspiration for a straight and skinny body
Then came the era of the skinny models such as Twiggy. This was a time when women yearned more for their collar bones to be seen than having slim waists or hour glass shapes. It was a time of straight bodies and extreme dieting. This also started the era of starvation to the extent of malnutrition. These skinny and straight bodies were held in high esteem even up to this day.
There was a rush to fit into the smallest sized clothes be it a size zero or a size 10. This extreme dieting came with a price. Health was compromised almost always. The loss of muscles on the upper back compromised posture. In the last few years, there has been outrage and increased public awareness on how unhealthy some of these dieting regimes were. The hourglass shape was so prevalent amongst our great grand mothers. It was largely a result of a healthy land active lifestyle. Unfortunately in modern times, living a healthy life takes a lot of effort.
All said and done, an hourglass shape could still be achievable, even in modern times. While a lot of people claim that genes play a major role, an hour glass body could be carved out to a great extent with a healthy diet and correct exercises. Dieting should be avoided and the focus should be on losing weight correctly. Correct Weight Loss is achieved by losing fat while maintaining or building on the body’s muscles. Incorrect weight loss is achieved by just blindly wanting weight loss irrespective of whether the weight loss is coming from the loss of water or muscles or fat. Just blindly dropping weight results in the straight and skinny bodies that according to the British survey, women are moving away from.
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I like your post, but also want to add that the hour glass figure is also a gift from God…it is in the bone structure..
from a girl from Texas that comes from a long heritage of hour glass shapes
Hi well actually the hour glass figure is a gift from god to all women. Very rarely would you find the shoulder bones to be very much smaller than the hip bones. These are more or less proportional. Instead, what gives the shape is the muscles that cover these bones. Some people like you are blessed because your muscles give you the coveted hourglass shape. Other have to work at it but its by no means impossible? What types of exercise do you do?
As long as they have hips its all good.
As someone said above, body shape is determined by genetics. An hourglass is born with it. There may be excercises you can do to cinch in your waist but there’re no excercises to make you grow hips or boobs.
Thank you for your feedback. Genetics does help those who are lucky. The rest of us just need to work at it. Actually, there are exercise that work just the areas of the body that bring out the hourglass shape. For instance lunges and squats work the buttocks. It helps to shape it in the right proportion. There are for sure no exercises for the breasts but this is not what brings out the hour glass shape. It is the shoulders. Wide shoulders give the illusion of a slim waist and thus enhances the hourglass shape. The shoulders, for sure can be built with weight resistance exercises. Off course, one has to also be lean.
great article
very much agree with you. but there are exercises to keep the body fit and somehow helps in changing the body looks. We cannot make much changes in our Body structure but still can workout on diff body parts and give it a good shape atleast.
A very valid point. We have the ability and the power to shape our bodies. We could carve out broader shoulders or a narrower waist. off course its easier said than done but its possible.