[OC] 25 years of fashion models vs. the US population: almost no overlap in body fat, and even “plus-size” models sit below the average American woman

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2602380123 This is panels d–g from a new PNAS paper on the cultural evolution of beauty standards (Boucherie et al., 2026). It compares US-based female fashion models against US women aged 17–30 from the NHANES health survey, using Relative Fat Mass (RFM), an estimate of body-fat percentage derived from height, waist circumference, and sex. What [...]