when DID this becomer more attractive?!?! (pic.....i hope)

Honestly, different women have different body types, metabolism, fitness level, and goals. So we look different. And shocker, different men have different preferences as well. Some like thin women, ever with or without muscle definition showing. Some like a more 'average' size body, again either with or without muscle showing. Some actually prefer women that are a little overweight, some prefer women that are very overweight. Some like big boobs, some just want a handful, some want a small tight butt while others want a big booty, some want blondes and others want brunettes or redheads, etc. Nobody can say what men 'really' like b/c there are just as many preferences out there as there are body types to match with them.

Just to put all your minds to rest, ladies, all of the women in the original post are attractive - at least to me, and I suspect to quite a lot of other men as well. Imagine a scale of 1 - 10, with 1 being anorexic and 10 being morbidly obese. In my opinion, the only physically unattractive numbers there would be 1, 2, 9 and 10. That is not to say people in these ranges can't be attractive overall, but that those bodyweights do not appeal to ME.

Everyone has a different opinion, and the balance on this scale seems to have slid more to 1, and away from 10.

As to the matter of curviness - to me a curvy woman is someone with a pronounced bum against her back and thighs, breasts with a good shape and a waist that is defined from her hips. Other people have different opinions of this, but fat does not equal curvy.

It never did. If you want to know what's attractive to heterosexual men, why would you look to WOMEN's fashion magazines? Instead, look to p0rn-- watch lots of it-- there's LOTS of body-type variation, which should suggest that men are attracted to women of VARIED body types.

i think the older pics are hotter of those women. how do i get the pic to put that on facebook?

I'm totally in support of the more curvy women [Marilyn is my idol!] but there's also no reason that someone who is naturally thin needs to be called unattractive...I know plenty of naturally thin females who have tried to gain weight & just can't. So them being called unattractive because of their thinness is kind of the same as calling a larger woman unattractive because of her higher weight...Just sayin'

These women arent considered sexy.... Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez, Eva Mendez are considered sexy now a days and they are curvy.

Old Hollywood is definitely more attractive-Jane Russell, Jayne Maynesfield and Sophia Loren were gorgeous as well

I'm not a size zero, at least not in the stores I shop. Maybe if I went to more expensive stores, I'd wear a smaller size.

I'm typically a size two or a four, though, which isn't far off. I hate to think I'm on the cusp of being a non-person, even though I'm dead in the middle of the healthy bmi. I'm 5'5, 130# and my measurements are 35-25-35.

Bettie Page was reportedly 5'5.5, 128# and 36-23-35. Marilyn was also 5'5.5, with a weight between 118-140# Bust: 35-37 inches Waist: 22-23 inches Hips: 35-36 inches

So really... aside from having smaller waists (remember that girdles were popular then) and (especially in Marilyn's case) a larger cup size, they weren't that much different than this modern day size 2 or 4.

LOL!! That's awesome.

Women with curves and muscle are awesome... but what about the women with faster metabolism who CANNOT get curves because of their natural physiology (so-called "flat")? Not trying to pick on anyone or start a row, but there are a wide variety of body-types out there, and not everyone can be diva-licious-curvy.