36" 24" 36"

ReenieHJ
ReenieHJ Posts: 9,724 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Is that only a real measurement with photo shopping? :) I've never been close even at my best. If you wouldn't mind sharing your measurements, go for it. But if you'd rather not, then you just wasted 8 seconds of your life. :)
Last time I took out my tape measure I was 34.5" 29" 37.5". Definitely not the perfect Barbie doll image. :/
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  • ReenieHJ
    ReenieHJ Posts: 9,724 Member
    RelCanonical wrote: »
    Some people are just hourglass figures and it's genetically attributed. Not much you can do, most people won't even notice. It's not like your measurements flash up each time someone glances at you, and height really makes a difference as well on whether those stats are even obtainable. It's like saying the perfect weight is 130 pounds. For me that's the edge of overweight, for some taller people it's the edge of underweight.

    Haha, I picture something like one of the MPH signs flashing as people walk by. TG there's no such thing!
  • pjwrt
    pjwrt Posts: 166 Member
    RelCanonical wrote: »
    ... It's not like your measurements flash up each time someone glances at you....
    They do, they do. Back in my single days, before my wife was looking over my shoulder...how does she do that?
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    I'm 133 at 5'5 and in ok shape and I am 36, 30, 36.5 as of last measure. Just don't have the curve at my waist, never have. There's literally nothing that is gonna make me shave 4" off my waist and nowhere else.

    Who are these measurements for, what's the goal once there? What's the thing that's going to start happening at this magic ratio?
  • dapunks
    dapunks Posts: 245 Member
    Why would you want to be?
  • collectingblues
    collectingblues Posts: 2,541 Member
    MelanieCN77 wrote: »
    I'm 133 at 5'5 and in ok shape and I am 36, 30, 36.5 as of last measure. Just don't have the curve at my waist, never have. There's literally nothing that is gonna make me shave 4" off my waist and nowhere else.

    Who are these measurements for, what's the goal once there? What's the thing that's going to start happening at this magic ratio?

    Truth. I'm ~34 ~27 ~36 -- 34, 26.5, and 34 if I flex in -- and there's no way I could get to 24 at waist without either shaving off part of my rib cage, or removing some internal organs. I'm pretty comfortably in a size 4 or 6, consistently, and honestly, while I'd like to be a consistent unflexed ~26 at waist, it is what it is...
  • etherealanwar
    etherealanwar Posts: 465 Member
    I feel like a lot of women cannot achieve such a small waist without being near underweight or within the underweight category.
  • lgfrie
    lgfrie Posts: 1,449 Member
    I believe Barbie was supposedly 38-20-34 when they did the math to extrapolate from the doll to an actual woman-sized woman. It might've been 38-19-34. Obviously not an attainable goal, that's why she's a doll and not a person.

    I seem to remember that Raquel Welsh back in the sexy cavewoman outfit days was touted as being the perfect 36-24-36. It's a body shape you are born with or aren't. Mostly "aren't". Unless you remove some ribs.

    Speaking of which, there is a woman who had ribs removed (and a hell of a lot of other surgery) to become Barbie. Her name is Pixee Fox, I recommend googling - I'd post a pic but they're all NSFW. The lesson I get from her grotesque pictures is to learn to be happy with your body.
  • vanityy99
    vanityy99 Posts: 2,583 Member
    DancingMoosie wrote: »
    I'm only 32" on top, so ☹️

    Same. It’s not that baadddd
  • Mr_Healthy_Habits
    Mr_Healthy_Habits Posts: 12,588 Member
    Only if she's 5'3" 😏...
    I kid...

    But for men it's shoulders/waist = 1.6 (the golden ratio)
  • ReenieHJ
    ReenieHJ Posts: 9,724 Member
    lgfrie wrote: »
    I believe Barbie was supposedly 38-20-34 when they did the math to extrapolate from the doll to an actual woman-sized woman. It might've been 38-19-34. Obviously not an attainable goal, that's why she's a doll and not a person.

    I seem to remember that Raquel Welsh back in the sexy cavewoman outfit days was touted as being the perfect 36-24-36. It's a body shape you are born with or aren't. Mostly "aren't". Unless you remove some ribs.

    Speaking of which, there is a woman who had ribs removed (and a hell of a lot of other surgery) to become Barbie. Her name is Pixee Fox, I recommend googling - I'd post a pic but they're all NSFW. The lesson I get from her grotesque pictures is to learn to be happy with your body.

    There's also a human Ken doll guy who's had so much plastic surgery that he's ruining his body, his nose is on the brink of collapsing, he can't breathe right. So sad really. It's an obsession with him to the point of slowly killing himself. :( Why are we so obsessed with perfect images that we try to obtain the impossible?
  • Talan79
    Talan79 Posts: 782 Member
    edited December 2019
    Is the 36” over the boob or under?
    My waist is a 25, hips are 37. I’m 37 over the boob less under. Kind of close to those measurements. One inch over on all 3.
    (Edited bc of typo)
  • ookoolady
    ookoolady Posts: 16 Member
    Don't forget that up until the 1960's, women often wore corsets and girdles that artificially gave them an hourglass figure.

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