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I happen to work in media, and two days ago we ran a photo spread of previously unseen pictures of Marilyn Monroe. We ran them because there is obviously still a ton of interest in Marilyn, because she's hot as hell.
The only people going around saying Marilyn was fat are fat chicks.
Jessica Siegel:
"The myth that Marilyn would be considered near plus-size today has become a battle cry in the culture wars over female body image," Seigel says. "The truism that the world's sexiest woman would be fat by today's glamour standards has been repeated unattributed in hundreds of articles and books.
"Nice try, but image activists will have to come up with other arguments," Seigel says. "Marilyn Monroe was not even close to a size 12."
In most sources, Marilyn was said to be 5-5 or 5-6 and under 120 pounds, with 35-22-35 measurements.
Natalie Wood, Bridget Bardot, Sophia Loren, Ingrid Bergman. These are women who were famous for looking youthful and being extremely petite. Raquel Welch was a super busty babe with an impossibly narrow waist.
Take them at age 18-30 and put them in a time machine and they make the Maxim Hot 100 list or whatever next to Megan Fox, Angelina Jolie, Scarlett, etc., no problem.
Meanwhile in the past 20 years you have the largest and richest Playmate in history, Anna Nicole Smith. Kim Kardashian, whose fame rests on her being a slut, is very short, but curvier than a bowling ball.
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