Please forgive my obsession.
For the life of me, I can't get my waist smaller than 26 inches. I have a feeling I would have to starve and it still wouldn't get much lower...Not to less than 24 inches. And I don't think I can make my hips any bigger. I think that's a bone thing. My hips are 34 inches, and according to this article, I will never be optimally attractive:
(from psychology today online)
Waist-hip ratio is likely one of them. It's no secret that men snap to attention and even go dry at the mouth at the sight of a shapely woman. Science has now calculated just how curvy a woman has to be to garner such appreciation: the waist must measure no more than 60 to 70% of her hip circumference. It is a visual signal that not only figures powerfully in attraction but is a moving force in flirtation. And unless steel-boned corsets stage a comeback, it is an attribute that just can't be put into play unless it is real.
In simplest terms, says Gangestad, waist-hip ratio is an honest indicator of health. Studies have shown that hourglass-shaped women are less likely than other women to get diabetes and cardiac disease. They are also most likely to bear children, as hips take their shape at puberty from the feminizing hormone estrogen.
"The literature shows that women with a 0.7 waist-hip ratio have a sex-typical hormone profile in the relationship of estrogen to testosterone, and that women with a straighter torso, meaning a waist-hip ratio closer to 1:1, indeed have lower fertility," Gangestad reports. "It appears that males have evolved to pay attention to this cue that ancestrally was related to fertility.
...so my hips are small and my waist straight because I didn't have enough estrogen as a teenager? Or something? It's spooky because I really am infertile. I don't get my period more than three times a year unless I'm on hormones. That's no baby making machine. So, ugly? It's so depressing. Damn biology. Bad enough to be on the bench for the whole of the baby making thing, but to be less attractive too? Come on (or it's consistently unfair, I guess).
But whatever, I still get hit on sometimes. I'd say at least average for my age. Maybe I am deceptive. Even at work, I don't think I'm less than average in terms of looks. It could be the polishing.
Anyway, less of a pity party this time, more of a curiosity? Do women with straight waists and small hips really have more trouble in the reproductive health department because of hormones? I read somewhere that Keira Knightley has a 27inch waist, and she's narrow in the hips, and still hot? Right?! I'm starting to get a complex over this.



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