Plus, the "ideal women's body type" has evolved with the trends throughout the years, from the 1950s hourglass to '90s ...

So if you were a women with small breasts and large hips and shoulders, that was the body type ideal. Women were binding their boobs and trying to make themselves have V-shaped bodies.” ...

This second chart shows the distribution for each type of athlete. Positions with dense clusters of dots (like NFL centers) are highly specialized - meaning there's very little variety in body types.

"Everyone on there has what I thought was the ideal body type and I was comparing myself against everyone on there and I don't look like that and I found that really difficult to deal with." ...

trying to achieve what the media portrayed as the 'ideal' body type. I under-ate and overworked my body, running for at least six miles a day, every day. I was so brainwashed from what society ...

Years of hard work and training go into becoming an Olympic athlete. But is there any ideal body type that helps give these athletes that special edge? We've compiled a list of the nation's top ...