We all know what the perfect woman’s body looks like. Or do we? Is it Kim Kardashian, with her popular ‘internet-breaking’ big behind, or Marilyn Monroe with her voluptuous movie curves? Is it a powerful and athletic Beyoncé? What about the waif-like, angular fashion models on the catwalks? For thousands of years, we’ve been changing our minds about what the perfect body looks like. Who started this ‘ideal body’ thing anyway? Perhaps we could start by blaming the gods. Divine Proportions High on Mount Olympus the gods sat quarrelling. As usual. Their disagreement of that day? Waist-to-hip ratio. They’d come up with the idea of humans, but they couldn’t decide what might look best. What should women look like? What
