Twiggy… omg

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I knew she was skinny but I never knew how bad it was! Looking at those photos of her in the 60s is painful.Why do we do this to ourselves? Have we done this since time began?

I was just reading how in the Victorian times there was another skinny phase where women liked to look skinny and weak like they’d had TB. Awful!

Does anyone know if it’s ever been fashionable to be healthy?

Not sure why you are getting so upset. Does anyone 'body shame' you in real life? I can think of several people who are around your weight - it's very evident they have a small frame, and usually not much muscle. I don't assume they don't eat much, I just think it's how they are built.

It's ok to be slim in your 50s but you need to keep your muscle up. You've got quite a lot of saturated fat and processed foods in the lists of food you have posted. But if your cholesterol and blood pressure are ok I guess that's fine.

Does anyone 'body shame' you in real life?

Skinny people get body shamed.

People are way too invested in other people's bodies, whether skinny, fat, whatever. Especially if somebody has no health problems and is slightly over or under - MYOB

I do think the amazing Diana Ross looks tiny here. She's a normal woman though

@GreenPoppy yes I do have muscle. I've been a gymnast, a horse rider and now I do weights and yoga. I have visible abs and muscular legs.

So you're fit, healthy and have a metabolism that most of us can only dream of. So enjoy it. Your friends and family will know what you eat, and I can guarantee complete strangers who you see in public give zero headspace as to how much you eat.

Diana Ross has said herself that she thinks she may have had a form of anorexia. The stress of being a star meant she could barely eat anything.

So a bad example, and I do think she looks very underweight in that picture.

Which isn't of course to say all slim women have eating disorders, of course they don't.

@PiscesAndChips I don't comment on other peoples size. Please don't comment on my very small size.

The hell are you talking about?

@GreenPoppy yes I do enjoy it (actually I don't think about it) but my friends and family don't really care about my weight, and I don't care about theirs.

@PiscesAndChips I was trying to say that I agree with you

Surely the overall thrust of this thread was that the fashion industry has encouraged extreme thinness and dieting to the point of anorexia in many young women.
This is a well documented issue.
Whether individual posters are naturally slim or otherwise is not the point.

You can do BMI for children too (hence year sixes being checked), it calculates it slightly differently based on age.

I think it's women wanting to feel good about themselves by citing one of the most celebrated women in the world as being bigger

She wasn't. She was weeny

Definitely sizes have changed. When I got married I weighed 10stone and my dress was a size 14. I was almost 6ft and very slim. That was 1988

I know it’s a shock but people were much thinner back in the 60s- my mother was tiny and she was very healthy. Likewise her friends. Portion sizes were smaller - for everyone- and snacks did not really exist nor fizzy drinks at home. Twiggy was seen as small indeed at the time - hence her nickname.what I really remember was the hair and the smell of hairspray… a whiff of Elnett really takes me back

Wasn't Twiggy in her late teens? I certainly remember there were any number of girls who were that skinny naturally when I was at school. It all started to even out a bit when metabolisms slowed down in our 20s.

I would think Marilyn Monroe was a current size 10-12 with those measurement and height.

With a 23-24in waist, 33/34in hips and BMI of 19. Are you kidding me?

Nope. 34 inches (hips) = uk size 10. 36 = size 12.

In what brand available in the uk is a 34in hip a size ten? The chart above is Jigsaw and this is Next .

You’re right, I was looking at waist instead of hips. She was probably a 6-8.

My bloody nickname is Twiggy and i hate it. Had it since school and I'm in my 60's now. Size 6/8. Eight and a half stone. Never been able to put weight on so now I'm weight training to try and do it that way.

I think no matter our size we are never happy.

Comparing body sizes today with the 60s is pointless. There was no fast food other than fish and chips which was not eaten very often,People cooked simple meals at home and ate three times a day with little or no snacking. Most people walked more because cars were not so prevalent. Restaurants were almost unheard of and pubs didn’t serve food.
Everyone was much thinner.

She was a 12 in her day but sizing is very different now!