How The Perfect Female Body Changed This Past Decade

Throughout the years, women's perfect body types have evolved, shifting with society's ideas of what "perfect" even is. In reality, there's no such thing as a "perfect body," but these are some of the fitness trends, ideals, and concepts we saw hit the mainstream in the 2010s.

It's hard to believe Keeping Up with the Kardashians has been around since 2007, or how influential it's ended up being. By 2010, the family and all their uncomfortable moments had taken over pop culture, and so had all of the stars' curves.

While all three Kardashian sisters are certainly thin, they also helped emphasize the supposed importance of having big hips and booty to spare. But the media at large continued to promote an overall thin body type as the ideal, to aggravating results. In fact, a 2011 study found that the super-skinny ideal of the era seriously messed with real women's minds. And not in the way you might think!

According to the study, published in Science Daily, when women spent five consecutive days looking at magazines with thin, idealized body types, a surprising result occurred. The readers began becoming more conscious of their own bodies, and began choosing to diet, reporting to researchers that they were increasingly skipping meals or cutting carbs, whether they really needed to for their health or not.

Watch the video to see how the perfect female body changed this past decade!

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Curvy, but still thin | 0:14
The real body movement | 1:04
Big butt revival | 2:00
Body positivity | 3:07
Shifting to neutral | 3:58
Insta-gratification | 5:25
In 2019, the perfect body type was inclusive | 6:30