This infographic looks into how the female figure has been depicted over the years in the media and how this has impacted physically on the bodies of women in our society, the show the change we measure the BMI (body mass index) of both normal average women and celebrity woman just to show how much difference their is between actual women and fake on screen idols. What is interesting is that in the 1900’s woman’s bodies both in real life and depicted on screen where very similar and healthy, this only started to impact on women’s health in 1990 when the BMI of models hit dangerous low levels.

Source: elanic