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Skinny models a 'turn off' in advertising, claim scientists

telegraph.co.uk — It has been a golden rule of advertising from its inception - thin models sell more products to women. The only trouble is, it is not true, claims new research. Researchers have found that skinny models are actually a turn off to consumers in TV commercials and other advertising.

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  • dietfacts, on 11/17/2008, -1/+267Healthy, natural thinness is one thing. Anorexic, scary thin is another.
  • deff, on 11/18/2008, -6/+153It took ***** scientific research to figure this ***** out? Really?

    Give me a girl with a nice, round ass any day. Visible rib cages and spines ARE NOT hot.
  • binchaud, on 11/18/2008, -7/+83I like a little junk in the trunk ..
  • internetcoward, on 11/18/2008, -1/+75I never got modeling. Its just being a walking dummy for clothing isn't it? Why do people take it so seriously?
  • woodyinthehoody, on 11/17/2008, -14/+81http://www.hiphopgalaxy.com/IMG/wallpaper-vida-gue ... > skinny girls
  • theviceroy, on 11/18/2008, -1/+59Scientists 'objectify women as sex objects' in experiments, claim models.
  • mywhitenoise, on 11/18/2008, -2/+60You like the anorexic, sickly think look? Gross.
  • tee349, on 11/18/2008, -3/+59This is true. I'd rather see women entirely dressed in bacon.
  • inactive, on 11/18/2008, -2/+46I hate it when they look hungry.
  • ileftfark, on 11/18/2008, -3/+46You know what's attractive? *****. And a shapely ass.
  • Coffeedemon, on 11/18/2008, -0/+37I always thought the point was for women to resemble coat hangers more than anything so you don't get distracted from the clothes by an actual body or curves. Maybe its the designers preferring their models looking like little boys.
  • inactive, on 11/18/2008, -5/+39One of the reasons that ultra-skinny girls dominate the advertising world is that the designers are in most cases gay.

    Which explains almost everything.
  • TheUngod, on 11/18/2008, -0/+32No, fat girls are gelatinous.
  • jamesdew, on 11/18/2008, -0/+32I bet you would not be so interested in she had tiny boobs and was really fat
  • trogdor282, on 11/18/2008, -6/+37I've wondered if gay fashion designers just like models that look like 12 year old boys.
  • 01001001, on 11/18/2008, -7/+38I LIKE BIG BUTTS AND I CANNOT LIE...
  • blackinthmiddle, on 11/18/2008, -0/+28As a black man who's lived a little, I can tell you that young girls like Vida with nice fat asses usually turn into middle-aged women who are simply fat all over, especially after giving birth to a couple of rugrats. So while white women may not always (sometimes they do) have that "J-Lo" butt, you might very well appreciate that fact when she's 35. The shape of the female body, unless she works out religiously, is always in motion.
  • Jsmuli2, on 11/18/2008, -6/+29nsfw
  • freezerburn666, on 11/18/2008, -0/+23she looks like a glazed ham
  • terrachronos, on 11/18/2008, -1/+24extremely skinny women need to go eat a frickin sammich!! Coke whore kate moss is not a role model, she's an example of what NOT to be

  • imasuperDOTcom, on 11/18/2008, -1/+22Size 8 is "pretty large"? wow. That seems crazy to me, but whatever.
  • inactive, on 11/18/2008, -0/+21Do you cruise for chicks in hospitals?
  • 15thPD, on 11/18/2008, -1/+22I love feeding them.
  • 1Pint, on 11/18/2008, -1/+21http://www.funnyforumpics.com/forums/Demotivationa ...
  • Myxllamatosis, on 11/18/2008, -1/+21I know have an image of a woman with an ass on her chest thank you.
  • mywhitenoise, on 11/18/2008, -2/+21skinny does not mean "in shape".
  • reyoo30309, on 11/18/2008, -2/+20It always has made me a little sick when seeing women half exposed and being able to count their ribs.
  • bruleboy, on 11/18/2008, -2/+19round thing in your face
  • FFXIfrohike, on 11/18/2008, -0/+17They're bitchy because they're hungry and hopped up on nicotine and diet pills.
  • wily6, on 11/18/2008, -2/+19that when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
  • markperia, on 11/18/2008, -3/+19you other brothers can't deny...
  • cawpin, on 11/18/2008, -1/+17You get SPRUNG!
  • blackinthmiddle, on 11/18/2008, -0/+15@ColBuendia71

    No, the golden rule of digg is to learn how to spell "jelous" (sic).
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  • JFitzpatrick, on 11/18/2008, -3/+17Depressing that it requires scientific research to establish that nobody is attracted to prepubescent looking women. You're not supposed to look like a gawky, overly tall, 11 year old girl.
  • ZeeZee2k, on 11/18/2008, -0/+14http://www.bbqblog.ca/20080402-baconbra.jpg
    not so sexy is it?
  • ColBuendia71, on 11/18/2008, -2/+16The golden rule of Digg: be offensive, get dugg down, but be clever and offensive and get dugg up.
  • dezweber, on 11/18/2008, -1/+15I think it would depend on the consumer. Since the average woman is not anorexic, I think it would be reasonable to assume that an average sized model would sell best.
  • habbofresh, on 11/18/2008, -2/+16*clap* clap*

    excellent research, men. here's a fun fact: we're genetically wired to be attracted to, for a lack of better words "healthy breeding candidates"

    wide hips, and large breasts speak to our hormones more than they do to our eyes.
  • Murdats, on 11/18/2008, -2/+15what happens is people try and create a formula for things.

    some people notice that skinnier girls are more attractive then fatter girls, ignore all reason and logic and extrapolate that to mean the thinner you are the more attractive you are.

    you see it all the time, some people like an element of things, people interpret that to mean the more of that thing the better with no limits or bounds.
  • david76, on 11/18/2008, -1/+14Size 8 is "pretty large"? Wow, you've got issues. How short are these Size 8 women which you consider "pretty large"?

    Nobody is talking about obese models, just fit as opposed to skinny.
  • sancho320, on 11/18/2008, -1/+14Mmmmmmmm... Haaammmm...
  • SilverBack101, on 11/18/2008, -0/+13I think he does it at refugee camps in Africa.
  • Jsmuli2, on 11/18/2008, -1/+14@ cawpin

    ok, when your female boss sees that as she walks by your cubicle, don't be surprised when you're picked to participate in the company's "economic adjustment" program

  • macbookpromat, on 11/18/2008, -1/+14Round is a shape.
  • jer21, on 11/18/2008, -2/+15You prefer her ass to be on her chest?
  • boardthis, on 11/18/2008, -4/+16give me some vida guerra over kate moss any day.
    rawr
  • SilverBack101, on 11/18/2008, -1/+13Dude, way to derail this funky train.
  • MyBookie, on 11/18/2008, -25/+37Most guys prefer a woman with some natural meat on their bones and shun the anorexic, sickly thin look - not me.
  • damack, on 11/18/2008, -2/+14I don't know of many people who like that skinny annorexic BS so I wonder where the demand for it is?

    I'd like to meet a man who doesn't want a nice ass and some hot thighs, maybe some twin carrying hips.
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