Thread: beauty changes
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Old 08-18-2003, 09:48 PM   #13 (permalink)
Double D
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Originally posted by awanderingsoul
I think I read somewhere that Marylin Monroe was a size 12 (or maybe a 14). The article compared her to one of today's icons of beauty, Pamela Anderson Lee, who is supposedly a size 2 (which I find hard to believe). I just thought that was interesting.
Marilyn was a size 12 by standards of sizing from 40 years ago. (At that time there was no size *zero.*)

My mom weighed 119 pounds and was also a size 12 back then.
I'm guessing the equivalent size today would be a size 8-10.
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