The porn body backlash: Surgically enhanced breasts and ultra thin body is women's least desired shape
- Surgically enhanced 'pornstar' look is now women's least desired look
- Number of women who find plus size figures attractive has doubled
- Women most desire a 'fit not thin' or 'soft' body
- Number starving for perfect figure dropped from 40% to 7%
- But 92% of women feel 'under pressure' to attain a perfect body shape
By KATY WINTER
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Women are rejecting the inflated bust and exaggerated unnatural curves seen on many adult entertainment stars in a backlash against the rising tide of online pornography, a new study reveals.
While a decade ago one in eight women aspired to have a ‘porn body’, the look made famous by glamour models Katie Price, Pamela Anderson and Courtney Stodden is now the LEAST wanted look for young women.
Rejected: Young women are increasingly rejecting the porn-star figure embodied by stars such as Katie Price (left) and Pamela Anderson (right)
Currently just one in 200 girls say they still aim to attain the Barbie-like figure with young women condemning the look as ‘tacky and dated’ and describing it as ‘overhyped, oversexed and demeaning’.
Additionally the number of women who feel the plus sized look is sexy has doubled over the last decade from 1.5 per cent to three per cent as more women accept their natural curves and British women's dress sizes continue to increase.
Girls have also shunned the waif look made famous by supermodel Kate Moss.
While two in five girls admitted almost starving themselves to achieve an ultra-skinny body a decade ago, now only seven per cent feel the pin-thin figure is attractive.
Instead, the majority of women favour two new body shapes.
The waif look of Kate Moss is also less popular with only 7 per cent of girls saying they would starve themselves to attain an ultra-thin body
One in five girls aspire to the ‘fit not thin’ figure of trim but toned reality TV star Lucy Mecklenburgh.
But the most popular body shape is now the curvy ‘soft body’ made famous by actress Christina Hendricks and Kelly Brook, with 68 per cent of women favouring the figure.
Over half of girls polled for women’s website Sofeminine.co.uk claimed the ‘soft body’ was the first ‘attainable’ body shape for real women and 16 per cent celebrated they could ‘ditch the diet and the gym’.
A further 38 per cent felt it was the ‘sexiest’ body shape for women’
And despite many men growing up watching online porn, women now feel men prefer a body with real curves, with 79 per cent claiming their partner liked the ‘soft body’ compared to just three per cent who said men preferred porn star-style fake breasts.
Women are now idolising the 'fit not thin' body of Lucy Mecklenburgh (left) and the 'soft body' of Kelly Brook (right) is the most popular figure of all
However 92 per cent of girls reported they felt ‘under pressure’ to keep up with the latest body shape ideals, despite many women once again embracing a more natural look.
Two thirds (66 per cent) of women had enrolled in a gym at some point in their adult lives in a bid to alter their body shape while six per cent had hired an expensive personal trainer.
While 54 per cent had tried a standard diet one in 11 followed a more stringent eating plan such as a meal replacement plan.
A worryingly nine per cent had put themselves through an extreme diet or fast such as the Maple Syrup Diet.
Commenting on the report, Sofeminine.co.uk Editorial Manager Ursula Dewey said: ‘The soft body is the biggest change in women’s health and beauty in decades.
‘It’s rocketing popularity shows women are turning their backs on being told to have over the top surgical enhancement or extreme diets are once again embracing their natural beauty and curves.
‘The look has been popular throughout history with stars like size 14 Marilyn Monroe – and it’s the one look which men and women both adore.’
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