Do Guys Like Skinny Women?

A lot of men do. I have known a few men who wouldn't look at a girl unless she had prominent hip bones.

I think most aren't so shallow, though. I hope not anyway. I think most really go for personality, the same as us girls do, as long as the person in question is in the realms of normal weight wise.

My husband says I am too thin these days, but he doesn't mean it, as I was a lot thinner when we got together and he used to say I could lose a few lbs back then! He's known me everywhere between 7 1/2 and 12 stone, and loves me at all of them, but I think he's happiest when I am healthiest.

if you google stuff, there are men for ALL types of women. trust me.

Men like confident women who are secure in their bodies. You can be a size 18 and sexy as hell if you dress right and carry yourself with confidence and class. You can have the body of a Victoria's Secret runway model and be really unattractive with unkept hair, frumpy clothes, craptastic attitude about life and everyone around you, etc.

It's all in the way you carry yourself.

I don't know what you mean by "Everyone thinks it just nobody says it. " but different guys like different body types just like they may have other preferences. And skinny does not mean anorexic. If you are underweight, try doing strength exercises to build muscle and a more shapely figure and ask a doctor or nutritionist to put you on a special diet. But don't focus on being a shape that you are not.

Are you on meth? how can I phrase that where you understand that. DONT blow this out of proportion, also if you quote me with something stupid I am not going to respond. I know what I like in a dude. All I am asking is that why does America portrays skinny as pretty when normal people don't. Act stupid and act like this is not a promblem on another topic.

You are being hostile for NO reason. I said I didn't know what you mean because you don't know how to form a coherent paragraph. The way you placed your statement "Everyone thinks it just nobody says it," it could be interpreted as assuming all men like skinny women or all men like women built like JLO (though neither is true.) I can tell you guys don't like nasty attitudes. So maybe that's what you should be working on.

PWND!!!! Win.

My life would be so much friggan easier if men only like skinny women. For reals. **double bang head on thread....(for good measure)**

Not all of them do. Generalizing the collective preferences of billions of men in the world is unrealistic. As a big girl I have personally never had any problems attracting men. I know lots of skinny, beautiful women who have absolutely no luck with men. It all depends on the man and the woman.

Like someone else said - I wouldn't starve myself for any man on Earth anyway. I'd rather have a fun chunky guy over a super skinny conceited jerk who only wants me for my body.

Who can live up to the pressure of having to look like a model for their significant other?

No one that has a life would be checking for grammatical errors... I am in my junior year of college and 18, I graduated high school at 16 years old and just finished an internship for the cleark of Palm Beach County, I am heading to UCLA to become a lawyer... Stick to the post please and not your ignorance.

You sound sweet and well meaning, but you are very young. Just watch out that you don't starve your brain in your quest to be super skinny. Your brain needs fuel to work at it's best and to be a lawyer you need to to be working at your best.

Good Luck!

Hon, proper grammar and writing skills count for a lot when it comes to lawyering so I wouldn't be so quick to write off people's suggestions for improvement in these areas.

bump for later

Im thin now and there is no hope for me looking like JLo... even though I wold loooooooove to.Woman try to be that all the time, do men actually like skinny, aneroxic woman?
Everyone thinks it just nobody says it.





Note- Thanks guys:) But I think the main question is Why does America see unhealthy or sick as pretty, when we dont. Look at the fashion world as an example.

the way women are protrayed on tv as the normal "sexy" (eg victoria secret models, maxim models....) then yes, the try to show that is the "ideal" woman to wear the binkinis and lingerie BUT i dont think all men like skinny, they just like HOT and their opinion of HOT is different.

i think women nowadays rack their brains trying to look like a VS model or Maxim model or try to be "model" thin so we have become so insecure with our bodys and how the media portrays women, we think that all men must think this is sexy so i have to get this bathing suit, this dress, wear my makeup like this, etc. and every women has their insecurity so that just makes them more paranoid when a guy isnt into them that they like, they think its that one part, or more, of them they hate that makes them go away. BUT if looked like Heidi Klum in her day, they'd still pine for me.

NOT ALL WOMEN but i want to say a majority of them, THANK YOU American fashion industry!!!

No one that has a life would be checking for grammatical errors... I am in my junior year of college and 18, I graduated high school at 16 years old and just finished an internship for the cleark of Palm Beach County, I am heading to UCLA to become a lawyer... Stick to the post please and not your ignorance.

....life-less professors at UCLA may check for grammatical errors that my 7 year old cousin doesn't even make....Just sayin.

Stick to the topic.

*LMFAO* You're just a big ball of FUN!

Warning - politically incorrect stuff to follow.

I think that it is safe to say that although men _say_ that they like "this that or the other thing", if you go to a (bar, gym, coffee house, supermarket, beach, dog park, etc etc etc) thinner women get more male attention - if they are not "unhealthy" looking. I would like to add "statistically speaking" - but I have no stats on the subject, just lots of experience seeing this in action.

Yes, there are men who like slightly thicker or slightly thinner women, there are men who like "anorexic" women, there are men who like really large women... but I think that there's plenty of evidence that the distribution of male preferences of women, by BMI (or some such measurement) is in the shape of a bell curve, with the center of the bell showing preference for thin but healthy, and falling off towards the extremes in both directions. I have no proof, but it seems pretty clear to me that this is the case.

Anecdotally, look how people "vote" with their dollars: In the media, "trim but healthy" women are the biggest draw at the box office and the small screen. Of course, in fashion, the thin thing seems to be taken to extremes... and strangely, it seems to me that fashion photography's audience is skewed significantly towards the female population (look at the size of the women's clothing section vs men's at any department store, or just the sheer number of stand-alone women's clothing stores)

Personally, I weigh intelligence and personality very highly, but all other things equal, I'd prefer a trim and healthy looking woman, allowing for quite a bit of variation in that range.

Warning - politically incorrect stuff to follow.

I think that it is safe to say that although men _say_ that they like "this that or the other thing", if you go to a (bar, gym, coffee house, supermarket, beach, dog park, etc etc etc) thinner women get more male attention - if they are not "unhealthy" looking. I would like to add "statistically speaking" - but I have no stats on the subject, just lots of experience seeing this in action.

Yes, there are men who like slightly thicker or slightly thinner women, there are men who like "anorexic" women, there are men who like really large women... but I think that there's plenty of evidence that the distribution of male preferences of women, by BMI (or some such measurement) is in the shape of a bell curve, with the center of the bell showing preference for thin but healthy, and falling off towards the extremes in both directions. I have no proof, but it seems pretty clear to me that this is the case.

Anecdotally, look how people "vote" with their dollars: In the media, "trim but healthy" women are the biggest draw at the box office and the small screen. Of course, in fashion, the thin thing seems to be taken to extremes... and strangely, it seems to me that fashion photography's audience is skewed significantly towards the female population (look at the size of the women's clothing section vs men's at any department store, or just the sheer number of stand-alone women's clothing stores)

Personally, I weigh intelligence and personality very highly, but all other things equal, I'd prefer a trim and healthy looking woman, allowing for quite a bit of variation in that range.

I don't think that's politically incorrect, I think you are spot on.