Posted on 12/03/2019 2:00:46 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
In the days before you could order both groceries and magazine subscriptions online, it was damn near impossible to walk through a supermarket checkout line without seeing the term bikini body plastered on glossies at the newsstand. By todays standards, strapping two pieces of material onto any body fits the bill, but a decade ago, the term was still reserved for only those with six-pack abs and not an inch of perceived bodily "imperfection" in sight.
The definition was so narrow, the ideal so unattainable, that when actress and runway model Kate Upton appeared in a bikini on her first Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover in 2012, people straight-up called her fat. Fast forward five years to when she appeared on the magazines cover again in 2017a year after Ashley Graham became the first curve model to cover the issueand that same body was criticized for not being diverse enough, proving just how much our definition of the bikini body has changed for the better over the last 10 years
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Oh come on, you couldn’t crop the first 4/5ths of that picture out?
I’m for the bikini, or even less.
I would take my pre-school daughter to the Catholic School in Buriram Thailand, the mothers and teacher eye candy was awesome. Now I take my kindergarten daughter to Catholic school here in Michigan and there is no visual joy watching the moms and teachers, looks like the non-bikini bodies are the norm.
However, I did give a presentation at one of the MI Universities and wow, I was impressed.
Looks okay to me.
My definition of Bikini Body has not changed since I was 9 years old.
And that’s a long, long time.
Her hips are too narrow and she has chicken legs.
Just sayin’.
Bump for when more pictures show up.
+1
Outdoes Kate by a mile IMHO.
Could use a little fuller hips, but I’m not complaining.
“curve” models? LOL.
I am female and do not want to see all that in a bikini.
Whoa! That’s Raquel Welch!!? Oy vey!
It must be an old photo; there’s no tattoos, navel jewelry, piercings, purple hair, or black fingernails.
Just Raquel in all her natural beauty.
You don’t need a six pack but pot bellies on men and women are out. Tame that protruding gut!
Being proud of not curvy, but obviously overweight, is not something to be considered as a good thing.
Kudos to people who work to stay in shape. And “in shape” is a range on the spectrum, not just a narrow point.
Why, Why, Why did you have to put the last one in there?
Kate isn’t fat in that pic. She’s feminine.
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