Scientists have found out what the most attractive female figure looks like and disproved the popular myth about waist and hips

Scientists from the University of Konstanz (Germany) have identified the most attractive parameters of the female body, and it's not the ratio of waist to hips of 0.7, or 90-60-90. According to them, the most attractive figure has a pronounced S-shaped contour from the chest to the hips.

Because of this, many people find model parameters unattractive at a time when Kim Kardashian, Marilyn Monroe, Nicki Minaj, and other celebrities have become icons. According to the researchers, it is the overall "curvature" of a woman that makes her attractive, not just the presence of a thin waist.

Previously, the so-called beauty standard was a waist-to-hip ratio of 0.7. This parameter is determined by dividing the waist circumference by the hip circumference. As a result, the smaller this figure is, the more ideal the figure is.

According to modern researchers, the waist-to-hip ratio was important for the level of attractiveness as a sign of basic reproductive fitness.

"Because wider hips and a greater distribution of lower body fat are associated with positive pregnancy outcomes, evolutionary psychologists have suggested that our brains may have evolved to find this ratio attractive. Typically, a ratio of 0.7 is considered the 'ideal' level of attractiveness, meaning that the waist is 30 percent smaller than the hips," explains the Daily Mail.

But current research suggests that this method of determining is only valid for women who are underweight. For Plus Size women, it is the curves that play a significant role, not the width of the waist.

To come up with their theory, researchers Professor Ronald Huebner and Emily Sophie Ufken conducted two experiments, both of which involved participants rating the attractiveness of simple drawings of women with different parameters.

In the first case, the bodies had an ideal ratio of 0.7, so the "30%" theory was indeed true.

In the second, the researchers decided not to make them perfect, but to draw outlines based on real women in very tight corsets. The theory was again proven on slender bodies, but failed on larger volumes. Moreover, "0.7" was rated as the least attractive figure.

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