Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Beautiful (FAT) Girls, Part 3: Marilyn

Let's face it: by today's ultra-thin standards, Marilyn was a Big Girl. Hips! Thighs! Butt! Boobs! She had 'em.

And she is still considered one of the hottest women to ever walk the planet. Okay, so she wasn't known for her brains, or for crusading for women, but all these years after her death, we still point to her and think, "ooh, sexy."



"I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle."

5 comments:

Dani said...

Monroe was gorgeous, period. It's amazing that she is on the pedestal of being one of the sexiest women ever, yet if someone has her bodytype NOWADAYS, they're called fat. Society, you fail!

I love this series of posts, it makes me happy. =)

Meg said...

There's more coming, Dani! Turns out there are a TON of awesome fat ladies.

Cara Davis said...

She was pregnant in that pic, btw, Meg. Usually, she was a lot slimmer. Still hella curvy, but not as big.

Meg said...

Really? Dang. Well, she still had hips and butt in spades...and was still "fat" by today's standards.

Some magazine once had plastic surgeons diagram what they'd do to Marilyn and Audrey Hepburn were they to walk into their offices. It was SICKENING.

Cara Davis said...

That's completely ridiculous. She saw plastic surgeons; they fixed her nose and I think raised her hairline. It's sad that she would have to lose a good twenty pounds now to be considered for roles. I came across this not long ago (I'm currently on an obsessive MM kick) and thus I'll share:

http://fuckyeahmarilynmonroe.tumblr.com/