I can’t go that far. Luckily I can maintain as long as I work out, but I won’t diet.
It’s obvious to me that it’s just the way she’s standing. Look at her feet. One is directly behind the other, and her body is twisted. That’s how her thighs are touching. Look at her waist. Not fat.
See now, where I come from we make fun of women whose legs don’t touch–it’s kinda gross, actually, to have these little stick legs going up and daylight between them all the way up–the only women I see who look like that are meth users and anorexics!
With feet apart in natural stance, the thighs should just brush each other at their widest point and there shouldn’t be any sunlight showing through the triangle formed by the thighs and vulva, or only the tiniest little keyhole if at all.
This thread reminds me of Rod Steiger’s line in “Happy Birthday, Wanda June,” which goes (approximately!) “A woman should feel like a hot water bottle filled with Devonshire cream. You, madam, feel more like a paper bag full of curtain rods!” As I recall he was speaking to Susannah York, so a pretty valid shot all in all.
Like Kalhoun said, there’s no way I could make my thighs touch like that no matter how I stood. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying she’s fat, just that she’s not “in shape” by today’s standards. I think Marilyn was an icon of sexuality and beauty. She was more glamourous than most of our female stars put together. A few extra pounds doesn’t change that at all.
Hmm, that’s interesting. I am 5’4 and weigh 125, my thighs do not touch, nor do they look like sticks. I would have to gain 20 lbs. for my thighs to meet. I’m considered very curvy, not skinny or anorexic. I don’t aspire to a lower weight and I don’t diet or obsess about my body. This is how I look and it’s a normal weight for me. My BMI is in the normal range, not too skinny, not too fat. And I know quite a few attractive women who are built like me and they aren’t stick-like either. They are very curvy, in fact.
Look, I’m not judging anyone here, this topic was about Marilyn Monroe and whether or not she is fat. I have said I don’t think she was, but that she was bigger than the actresses of today. This is neither a bad or good thing, just a difference in standards as time has gone by. I certainly don’t make fun of people for the way their bodies look.
I think if you asked the vast majority of men, they’d say that all they really care about is that the woman’s thighs are touching THEM. 
Did Kidman use to have an incredible face? Even when she was younger, I would have said bland and without any character or beauty. Today, bat sounds about right.
Jim
Wait. I’m on a technical tangent now. Are you saying that you could not stand with one foot directly behind the other and have your thighs touch? What kind of twigs do you have for legs?
Her foot isn’t directly behind her. Standing like she is in that photo, my legs do not touch. Crossing one leg behind the other tightly, they do. That photo I posted above is me. Go on and tell me I have twig legs. :rolleyes:
Yeah, I was actually just about to say something similar. While I may not be anything even remotely resembling skinny (nor have I ever been- I come from short, round Italian stock), I have some very, very thin friends- we’re talking size zero to four/six on a very small frame. Every single one of those girls have thighs that tough.
In fact, my roommate and I were talking the other day how that seems to be a trait even most thin women have.
So yeah, I assumed touching thighs were the rule, not the exception. It was also my understanding that most men prefer thicker thighs like that anyway (thick does not mean fat. My thighs are fat, but that’s not the case for some of those I see on most days). Heck, my neighbor is super hot marathon runner and her muscular thighs touch.
You look fantastic, but the way you were describing yourself, it sounds like your legs are much thinner (in a bad way) than they are in that picture.
This surprises me. Admittedly, even I think I’m on the lowest end of a healthy weight for me, but feet together my thighs don’t touch at all. And with the exception of this winter (when I was having appetite issues and lost weight as a result) I’ve never had anyone accuse me of being too thin.
Compared to someone like Charlotte Rampling or Aishwarya Rai or Salma Hayek or Scarlett Johanssen or Audrey Hepburn or Jodi Foster in that awful Richard Gere movie, maybe she looks comparatively plain. But I do remember a picture of her with cascading red curls looking out at the camera and I thought she absolutely looked incredible. And IMO it wasn’t natural aging. She done did something to that face and the skeletal frame she maintains doesn’t help.
Maybe we’re running into some sort of cognitive dissonance here, because even back in the day when I was 5’9" and 128 lbs my thighs have always brushed each other. Now I’ll grant that I have fairly unusual level of lower body development due to years of dance, swimming, bicycling, hiking and running but it’s not like my legs are gigantically muscled or anything. Actually, now that I weigh quite a bit more than that my legs haven’t changed much at all because I don’t put fat on anywhere but my torso. I was down to a size 6 women’s (7/8 juniors, men’s size 29W/34-36L) last year and the only difference in how my pants fit from then to now is in the waist.
The only time I see adult women whose legs don’t touch when they’re standing naturally is women who are demonstrably horribly underweight, usually because of amphetamine use. And, just to be clear, we make fun of them because they’re stupid enough to use meth and probably started with it in order to “look good.” Gee, that sure worked! :rolleyes:
Then again, Portland is a town that really favors curvy women. Chicks who would be dismissed as a “fat pig” in LA or NY are the ones who get all the attention. I guess Portland men want women who look like they’ll breed well, be useful and work hard, heh.
I also think that she used to have beatiful skin, but either due to her age or any work she might’ve had done, it’s just not as great anymore. She looks dull.
Really, really great skin can go a long way towards making an otherwise average/just pretty girl look awesome.
My thighs have always touched, always. That includes when I was an active, in-shape 19 year-old. I was 5’6", 120 pounds. There is a lot about body shape that is not directly under a person’s control. In order for my thighs not to touch, I would have had to have been severely underweight.
My thighs don’t touch and I’m thin, but not freakishly so. I think a lot of it has to do with body confirmation. Even if I were to gain 15 pounds, I don’t think my thighs would do a whole lot of touching because my legs are kind of set far apart, allowing daylight to show in between them. Your legs don’t have to be especially skinny for this to happen. Just long and reasonably slender.
I’m kind of disappointed to see this portrayed as a gross thing, though. Can’t Marilyn Monroe be praised as a true beauty without disparagement thrown towards women with different body types? I’m no fan of Kidman, but she doesn’t have a boy’s body. She’s as much of a woman as all the brickhouse types. So what if she doesn’t have big breasts or collossal hips? She’s a woman, dammit. And so are people who look like her.
Above, above, above…oh yeah. That one. In the first place, yeah, her foot is pretty much directly behind the other one. Second, she has an unflattering, boxy bottom on. Third, all women don’t have the same bone structure. Given equivalent conditions, two women that have the exact same weight, height, etc. may not have thighs that touch when their feet are lined up in that way. Fourth, if MM were lying in the position you’re in in that photo, I doubt that her thighs would touch either, due to the position of the hips.
Just for grins, here is a photo of her working out. Look at her middle. No fat.
Also, take a look at this (incredibly erotic) photo. If any pose would reveal fat, that would do it. Look at her thighs. No dimples. No cellulite. No unsightly bulges. Nothing but pure sex all the way up.
And that ass. Good god, that ass. NSFW: http: / / i97.photobucket.com/albums/l213/rhainanight/Marilyn-Monroe1.jpg
Me either. I’ve been told I have great legs. Not stick-like, not skinny or anorexic. I never counted calories in my life until I hit my late 40s. I was naturally petite; that’s all.
I think the whole debate over legs touching is bizarre. It depends so much more on your body type than anything else (although I’m not debating that enough weight will make any thighs touch).
I hang out with slender atheletic girls and probably most of them have thighs that touch. Only the one with naturally thin legs don’t. Here’s a photo of me and some of my friends. (I’m on the right in the goofy hat) My thing always touch even though I’m not overwieght and actually lighter than the other girls.
So you don’t want your legs to ever touch. That’s great, your body’s not built that way. But there are plenty of women, MM included, who are not overweight and just have heavier legs. So please drop the “OMG, if my thighs ever touch I’ll just shoot myself, I think i’ll start purging right now I’m so grossed out by the idea” schtick. Thank god we’re not all identical Barbie clones.