At the higher end, that's actually classed as 'overweight' by the NHS Ideas about the 'perfect' female body have changed hugely through the years.

Studies show that even as women bodybuilders resist the dominant stereotype of the thin female body, they still need to be seen as attractive in traditional ways. Photo / Getty Images The Thursday ...

The 9ft-tall self-portrait "Plan" (1993), meanwhile, gives us a "towering female torso" over which Saville has drawn contour lines, as if the artist herself were a landscape.