It's amazing, before I began this blog I thought only Paris Hilton and perhaps Keira Knightley had my proportions, and now that I am on the constant look out for long torso, and with the help of you lovely readers, we are finding similarly proportioned famous gals everywhere. I especially adore finding our proportions in models, because they are regarded as being the pinnacle of beauty and perfection, so here is another top model to add to our growing list. Bar Rafaeli, the on again off again girlfriend of Leonardo DiCaprio, and Sports Illustrated cover girl of 2009. She certainly does not have the proportions of Leo's previous girl
Giselle, who is all legs, but no waist, instead Bar, has a curvaceous long torso. And when you browse through professional photo's of her, they are primarily focused on her feminine torso, furthermore she is beautiful and an object of desire, regardless of her leg length.
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Hi! I love your blog! You should write smth about Nicole Scherzinger:) She is very beautiful women and she has got long torso too.
ReplyDeleteI definitely think Mischa Barton ought to be included. She is tall, but has noticably short legs and long torso.
ReplyDeleteBar Rafaeli does indeed appear to have very short legs relative to her torso. In the photo of her with her back to the camera you can see that the length from her waist to the end of her backside even appears to be longer than the length from the top of her legs to the knee, which is surely unusual in any one. Also, she has a curved shape from the bottom of her calf muscle to ankle, whereas leggy people tend to have a much straighter line there. She is however obviously still an extremely attractive lady.
ReplyDeleteI'm not exactly sure of what you mean, but isn't that true in most people? Are you measuring from the end of her bum (couldn't think of a better word) to her knees?
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ReplyDeleteYes I do understand what you are saying. It appears that the length from the back of her knees to where her butt ends (top of her thighs) is shorter then the same place where her but ends to her waist line.
Meaning she has a long waist, and I suppose a low butt (albeit not saggy, it's a good shapely butt)
Yes exactly. But I'm sure if it wasn't for this blog, and I had just looked at that picture, I wouldn't have registered it, because I would automatically have assumed that, being a model, she was long-legged lol
ReplyDeleteAlthough saying that, I always thought Claudia Schiffer had slightly short legs for her overall height, yet when I look at pics of her now, they seem endless and very long in proportion to her body :O
ReplyDeleteAnother one possibly to consider is Jerri Ryan. I'm sure I remember reading she thought her legs were too short, and indeed in this pic, while I believe she is relatively tall, they don't look endless. It's hard to tell from this pic though.
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I too automatically assumed models were long legged until I started this blog. I will look into Jeri, thanks for the tip.
ReplyDeleteInteresting how the same style denim shorts make Hayden Panattiere's legs look proportional, yet they do not have this effect on Bar Rafaeli.
ReplyDeleteWow, excellent observation regarding Bar and Hayden! I think it is because Hayden's denim shorts are darker, therefor more slimming, and her top is a bright pink , drawing the attention upward. Whereas Bar's shorts are lighter while the top half is darker, and her tank top does hang quite low, too low, making her torso longer.
ReplyDeleteThe angle of the camera, and the lighting play some part in this too. And Hayden's legs are more tanned, and thus slimmer and longer appearing.
I think it's not the shorts. It's that Hayden is more proportional legs to torso than Bar. Hayden lacks that ultra long willowy torso. Hayden is just short, very short - everywhere torso, legs, etc, both proportionally and overall. That's why advice about clothing for people with short legs doesn't apply to everyone. Most of the time, they're just talking about petites who are short overall.
ReplyDeleteI think you can see in this pic of Jeri Ryan dressed as her character Seven of Nine that her legs are certainly not long relative to her height. However I'm not sure whether she is just averagely in proportion or her legs are a bit short.
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Your blog is amazing!! Thank you so much for all your posts. They really help me to deal with my body image frustrations. One request though - would you mind one day writing about chunky legged beauties? In addition to dealing with short legs (42/42 :(), I also have the added disadvantage of living with larger bones and thick ankles relative to my twig-like upper body bone structure. Advice on how to mitigate this phenomenon, or even photos of celebs with stocky bottom halves would be so appreciated.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the good work!
Thank you Diana.
ReplyDeleteI will try to post something relating to your type of figure in the future, however, for now I think Katie Holmes, although being overall slim, has quite chunky legs and a stocky bottom as you put it. I did write about her, so you can check out the photos.
I did not quite understand what you were referring to by these numbers 42/42?
The posts on Olivia Wilde and Keira Knightley were pretty good at capturing the stocky bottom thing too. Def good examples.
ReplyDeleteOops, that was a typo! I meant to say my leg/ body ratio is 42.42 :(.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the suggestions. I will check out Katie Holmes, Olivia Wilde, and Keira Knightley!
I have always suspected that I have short legs and a long torso. I am 5'7; however, my legs inseam is only 31 inches. Am I right, do I have a long torso?
ReplyDeleteWoow, I'm so happy I found this blog! I was googling Bar because I found some similarities between her legs and mine. I've always had a complex with my legs, but I guess it's about to end, lol. These ladies are my fitness inspiration now
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@julie. No. Your inseam is proportionate to your height. You are vertically balanced or possess a medium leg length. I am the sane height as you and my inseam is 1/2 an inch longer. According to everything I've researched, my legs are actually longer than the average for my height. Keep in mind a person's legs don't exceed 1/2 her total height and actually are almost always less than 50% by at least a wee bit. So the longest anatomically correct inseam for a 5'7" person would be 33.5", although realistically 33" would be the limit except in very rare cases.
ReplyDeleteIf it helps, I know people who are taller with a shorter inseam than you and they appear to have normal leg length or maybe slightly short.
The third pic is the only one that looks a bit off and it's because of the camera angle. The other two pics seem normal. Just a bit short in the legs but nothing I wouldve noticed had it not been pointed out.
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