Celeb the First

Today's model of non-hourglass beauty is Katharine McPhee. She's a personal favorite of mine.

She is 5’8″ or 172.5cm

36-28-36 (80-65-80)

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I try to use pictures that have not been in a magazine or part of a photo shoot. Normally those images are heavily photo-shopped and are not actually what the person looks like. Pictures like this are probably more accurate.

For example, look at these two pictures of her in bikinis (bikinis are an easy way to actually see the shape someone has - clothes can skew it significantly).

(Images from http://bumpshack.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/katharine-mcphee-bikini-shape-magazine-photos.jpg and from http://www.gotceleb.com/katharine-mcphee-bikini-candids-in-santa-barbara-2010-07-17.html/katharine-mcphee-bikini-candids-in-santa-barbara-23 respectively)

The first one is a magazine cover, and the second one is her setting up for some sort of photo. You can see that on the magazine cover that her waist to hip ratio is significantly smaller. Not real, people.

That's why I take what I see in magazine and photo shoots with a grain or 60 of salt.

Back on topic. As you can see, she has a wider waist in relation to her hips. Her shoulders are about as wide as her hips, which aren't very broad. Also, her legs are relatively shapely and slender, which is also a common feature of having a straighter body shape.

And yet, she's still considered to be attractive in general.

What's Up.

(Image borrowed from http://msdianekennedy.wordpress.com/2011/01/)

This blog is for my own self-interest - I've never felt ugly, but also never very pretty. Beautiful is always defined by women with curves (whether they have extra weight or not), in that they have a pleasing waist to hip ratio. I don't have hips or a butt, and my waist is definitely not 10 inches smaller than my hips. No freaking way.

This is a blog to show myself (and anyone else who moseys by) that women can be beautiful and not have an hourglass shape. I'll be focusing primarily on rectangular/straight body shapes, since that is what I am.

First to define the general shape I'm talking about. In general, I'll be looking for women with measurements where their waist is less than 10 or 9 inches smaller than their hip measurement.

"Your hips and shoulders are pretty much the same width (you can measure them if you’d like to check), but your waist measurement is less than 9″ smaller than your hip/shoulder measurements.

So you don’t have a waist, and no matter how much dieting you do, you’re never going to have one. Why? Because of your skeleton, remember that set of bones that lies beneath your skin? If you feel your rib cage and find the bottom rib, and then feel down your body til you find your hip bone (that bone that juts out at the front of your pelvis), how far apart are they? The closer they are, the less waist you can have because there is no space for a waist. All those long waisted X’s and A’s have inches in between and the only bones at their waist is their spine, your rib cage and pelvis are sitting almost right on top of each other, which shortens your waist."

--http://www.insideoutstyleblog.com/2008/09/body-shapes-explained-h-shape-rectangle.html

This is very similar to my own shape. From the bottom of my ribs to the top of my hip bone is about 3 inches. I have a longer torso, but a shorter waist.

I'm going to try to include pictures, heights and measurements of women with body shapes that aren't an hourglass, but more of a ruler/straight shape. The measurements will be according to whatever sources I find, which does mean that the woman and/or her reps may have lied. But I'll also try to include pictures that show the body shape, which may help some.

So yeah, that's it. My center of women who look more like me than Christina Hendricks or Katy Perry. Because honestly, I'll never look like them. And honestly, that's okay.