[tarquin]

We've all heard that she was curvy insinuating that she was, by my standards, chunky. What curvy really means is she had an hourglass figure. This is readily apparent in photographs, but hamsters gotta hamster.

Her dresses were auctioned off a while back along with some other dresses:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-24...strel.html

Quote:

Monroe’s costume was displayed on a mannequin that had been carved down from a standard size 2 to accommodate the tiny waist. Even then, the zipper could not entirely close.

I particularly liked this quote from the article:

Quote:

Approaching Katharine Hepburn’s “Mary of Scotland” costumes, a plump woman declared with a mixture of envy and disgust, “Another skinny one.”

Ugh, a woman who doesn't eat herself to death. How disgusting.