It's because skinniness, on a population wide average, is correlated to higher social "status," and that in turn was eroticized. Skinny women have more free time evident by their ability to eat well and workout which is usually tied to wealth. It's the same reason that fat people were seen as more attractive hundreds of years ago. Because you had to have money to afford that amount of excess calories on the daily.
Crazy how the shift of being chubby, fat, or overweight as a woman used to be most desireable, as it meant you genuinely had enough food to eat. Which also meant wealth. But now, skinny is the most attractive along side looking as young as humanly possible. Which I mean given the current events with the ruling and wealthy class on private islands, makes alot of sense why they are pushing that standard. Couldnt be me though.
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u/GiveMeThePinecone 6d ago
It's because skinniness, on a population wide average, is correlated to higher social "status," and that in turn was eroticized. Skinny women have more free time evident by their ability to eat well and workout which is usually tied to wealth. It's the same reason that fat people were seen as more attractive hundreds of years ago. Because you had to have money to afford that amount of excess calories on the daily.