Just Curious...

Skinny or curvy depends on a person's BMI, which is their height and their weight. It also depends on their over all body shape! Some women are pears, and some are sticks. Stick women will probably never have smooth natural curves. Then again, pear women will never look good as sticks.

You can tell when someone is not at their natural weight. I happen to be 100 lbs and 5'3". Most girls at my height and weight would not look healthy, however that is my natural weight. I've weighed the same thing since about my junior year of highschool, and eat when I want, whatever I want. I've got a butt, and hips, and breasts at this weight! An anorexic girl at my size would NOT look good, she'd look like death walking.

This can thus be confusing, since a voluptuous girl at my height may weigh 120, and still look beautiful! If I weighed 120, I'd probably look fat! Muscle mass is also important. I could weigh 110 with muscle and still look exactly the same. Fat adds sizes, muscle doesn't (as much).

As for guys, it's ALL personal preference. Some guys like skinny girls, and some guys like to have a lot of butt to grab!

As a straight girl, I happen to be partial to big swelling hips on ladies ^^, and smaller breasts.

I'm 5'4 and I usually weight about 135- (though a little more now, still working off the darn mirena weight) and I have what I call a dancer's build- rounder but muscular. All the weight is in my hips and booty.

I'm hot!!

but I know you wanted a guy's opinion.....

It's really based on the guy, even within us individually we have huge different views of what is skinny or curvy or fat. I see some girl I view as average and some dude friends of mine would look at her and comment what a fat ass she is. For me, skinny would be pretty much all those models of the 21st century turn out to be. They are attractive facially but I don't like the fact I can see their ribcage, sternum etc. I keep feeling like I would break my girlfriends that are like that when I hug them because they seem so fragile. It's quite sad in my opinion how advertisements really affect the concept of beauty in women so many of them have this urge to get skinnier and skinnier and keep viewing themselves as fat despite how pretty or voluptuous they might be.

I personally prefer athletic curves. Many curvy girls I noticed didn't get that from exercising and such, but somehow whatever they ate went to the right place without overdoing it so it looks good. But I like lean muscle curves over that =).

P.S. Don't really pay attention to BMI unless you have a high body fat percentage and you know it, it is quite inaccurate because nobody has bothered to modify it to be more specific even though its more then 30 years old and a lot has changed since then. It only uses your current weight and your current height to label you as under, average, or overweight. Muscle mass tips the scale heavily, so for any guy or girl that actively exercises and works out, its a load of bull. I'm 5 11 and weighed 170 at last count, I want to get to about 175-180, and the BMI tells me I am overweight. Well you don't know what I look like except this picture there, but I'm pretty sure most people wouldn't classify that lil pic as an overweight boy with cute rosy round cheeks -_-. At least I hope not.

im 5'5 and i weighed 100lbs before i was preg and i weigh 112 now.
it depends on the person and teir body...and the guy of course

i love myself and i wouldnt change a thing about me.

Actually, they have refined bmi a lot, if you test underwater you get pretty accurate results. But not the mathmatic one you can do online or even the skin pinching one, you need to go to a club or something and pay to get properly tested.

You are describing ways to measure body fat percentages, not the BMI itself, they are related but not really. I was criticizing the BMI chart really, since does not take into account many variables such as age, bone density, muscle/fat ratio, blah blah. What you mentioned, the Underwater testing, known as hydro densitometry weighing, and the skin pinching (the cheap little stick known as the caliper) just measure body fat. Whether you have 10% body fat, 5% etc. BMI won't tell you anything about your body fat percentage.

Honestly, I dont care what my gf looks like... I have dated a girl who was model material 6 food and 110 pounds, and my current girlfriend who is 5 foot 2 and 200 pounds. I go for personality WAY over looks.

I don't believe that someone could be 6 feet tall and weight 110 pounds. That's really tall!! Your bones weigh more than that. But maybe I'm just defensive lol.

Appreciate your comment though. I agree, personality is more important.

As far as I know most guys prefer a girls with a little meat on them, and curvy
hips to grab onto lol , but personality, outgoingness is #1.