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Nerve compiles its top 10 size 10s

I love Nerve.com because it's lesbian-inclusive, features consistently awesome interviews and lists I generally agree with (or love to disagree with). Their latest is The Top 10 Hottest Women Size 10 and Up — and it's one I definitely agree with.

As perhaps the most random addition, number 9 is Pierce Brosnon's wife, Keely Shaye Smith. Apparently she's famous enough for being married to the former James Bond.

Coming in at number 6 is Adele, the Grammy-winning vocalist.

Some typical yet totally worthy women include Sara Ramirez, Missy Elliott and Queen Latifah.

And at number one? Well, let's just say that Mad Men would be nothing without this woman:

Christina Hendricks, who Nerve credits for bringing back "gorgeous curves into our lives."

While I find all of these women incredibly attractive, I also have a few additions of my own, such as Beth Ditto and America Ferrera.

Weird how some of these women cross over onto a recent ridiculous "Butterbodies" list by Spike TV. It looks like Nerve has much better taste, but I could have told you that already.

Dawn's picture

Saf-Yo-Bridg-whateverelse is

Saf-Yo-Bridg-whateverelse is size 10+?
bittybuffy's picture

Yo-Saf-Bridge

That's hilarious! I was just thinking about Yo-Saf-Bridge today. Damn, she's hot. And Firefly is genius!
Emma's picture

Oooh the curves on

Oooh the curves on Christina Hendricks. I love that girl.

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BuckeyesBandit's picture

There have to be 100

There have to be 100 celebrity women who could be on this list. It's so easy to carry a size 10 and be sexy. They just look big because of all the stick figures in Hollywood.

 

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katk's picture

awesome blog, absolutely

awesome blog, absolutely beautiful and remarkable women.
Tea&Toast's picture

I totally agree with their

I totally agree with their number 1! And I love that Adele's on the list, cos she's awseome! I've met her a few times cos my mates sister went to the Brit School with her, plus she lives pretty near to me. She's always been awseome and down to earth :) Another one I'd add to the list would be Kirsten Vangerness (sp?) from Criminal Minds. I've always found her majorly attracitve, and the fact she's gay is a bonus :P

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Radicalmind's picture

I agree

Accept for the fact that I should tote be on this list :) lol, one day.  

 

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Di's picture

not that sure about size

but she's not stick thin and she looks really great - nice to listen to as well

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A Muse's picture

Christina Hendricks is a

Christina Hendricks is a size 10? or higher?

I would have never thought she was a 10 or higher, especially considering the pic you posted of her....

 

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captainsam's picture

I appreciate that this is a

I appreciate that this is a list about women who, you know, eat, but every time I see a list like this I also get uncomfortable.  These women have to be recognized separately, in their own category of beauty.  Sometimes I feel as though they're being congratulated for being hot despite being larger than a size zero.  I realize that in most cases, the list is trying to draw attention to the fact that beauty doesn't come with a size attached, but when the lists are so often segregated by size, it underscores the divide between conventional "hot" bodies and "curvaceous" bodies.
Metrogirl's picture

I agree...

I feel that too many times, we women are judged based on our size.  It's like our size determines our "score" of how desirable we are.  How about all of these Hollywood women who receive bad press if they're too thin or too heavy?  I just think that this system is unfair, and puts all of us under way too much scrutiny and pressure to conform to some sort of "ideal" that is put out there...  The world needs to accept us just as we are. 
Iheartcoffee's picture

Thanks for the post!

Nice to read some weight positive media report.

Thanks for posting the Nerve.com list!

*As an aside... not that I care much about Jessica Simpson - but that whole to-do about her weight gain and larger physique was so gross. Wish the idiots at US Weekly, Entertainment Tonight and other media outlets had their heads screwed on too...

Nichole4FSU's picture

Nothing wrong with curves...

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MarissaQ's picture

Sizes are total bullshit!

I have clothes ranging from a size 4 to a size 10, depending on the store and the cut. I am so sick of the media using these arbitrary numbers as qualifiers and ways for us to define, understand, or place value on ourselves and others. We come away (myself included) with false ideas about what wearing a size 8 "means" about us, or what a size 10 "means."

For example, people are posting comments like: "So and so is a size 10? I never would have thought it!" That's because we all have preconceived notions about sizes. The answer is that no one is one size all the time, in every store.  

My mother always told me: ignore the number, pay attention to the fit.

Please stop it with the size obsessing already!! This article should just be called Top 10 Sexiest Women with Curves.   

 

桜's picture

Christina Hendricks

Wow! To be honest watching her on Mad Men, her size never once surfaced in my mind. She's beyond gorgeous..wait I don't know if that's possible but thats how I feel whenever I see her. 

She's BEYOND GORGEOUS, and her curves just add to her appeal.

 

Janzy's picture

I wanted to be missy elliot

I wanted to be missy elliot when i was like 10 I beeged my mom to do fingerwaves on me but she had no skilllz.

I still wanna be her.

eeyore's picture

lmao.....oh the finger

lmao.....

oh the finger waves...and the garbage bags....

good times.

:) 

x.Lorna.x's picture

What?!

Women have curves?! And it's sexy! Who would have thought... [/sarcasm]

But honestly, I think all this hype about sizes and body shapes is ridiculous. Especially the curves thing. I thought women were naturally meant to look soft and curvey, which IS sexy, and I find it ridiculous when magazines etc. make out like they have to give these women a little bit of their own credit because they're being overshadowed by women that are straight up and down, women who usually look like their weight isn't necessarily healthy. 

It's ridiculous, and it's just one of the reasons I don't understand the media.

Gone are the days when a woman with hips and a belly was hailed as a sex icon. Shame.

At the end of the day, if a woman (or anyone) is comfortable and confident with their figure, and it's doing no damage to their health, who's to tell them they should change? 

Thane McAllister's picture

Lola Luv, People!

Okay that list was good, i guess...but why was there no mention of this lovely thing; i know she is a size ten for a fact and she is crazy sexy (the nerve of NERVE!)

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eve_jig_it's picture

Confused??

Oh man I’m confused?!In the US, is size 10 deemed as big?

Cos in the UK a size 10 would be deemed as good! Size 8 is probably what most girls would want to be, then size 6 is on the very thin/skinny side (which I wouldn't want to be at). Whenever I hear the term ‘size zero’ I wonder if the person whom is that size is even alive!

I’m aware that US sizes and UK ones don’t equal/refer to the same thing, so does anyone know what the exact equivilents of the US sizes are to that of the UK ones?
bittybuffy's picture

She's a perfect 10.

A US 10 is about the same as a UK 14. Roughly. Ish.
eve_jig_it's picture

Thanks

Thanks for letting me in the know :)

Seems like size zero might be close to death! Especially if it was UK size zero.

 
sallysays's picture

yeah

Totally agree... she barely passes as curvy there, really! Certainly not skeletal but certainly not in any way a "plus size".

Hot though. I am not disputing the hot. 

 

PS. This comment was supposed to be a reply to the comment about Christina Hendricks not really looking like a size 10.

faith_in_buffy's picture

double standards

Size 14 (US 10) is a perfectly acceptable size to be. I personally think Keira Knightly (for example) has got nothing on Christina Hendricks (who was amazing in Firefly when she almost seduced Inara and amazing the episode of Without a Trace called check your head). Yet everyone raves about how gorgeous Keira is (yes she has that face) when her skinny frame is not at all attractive. Christina Hendricks has an amazing body (those breasts are just fantastic) and is a much more healthy size than Keira.

Despite me finding women with curves attractive, I still read vogue and watch the OC and think to myself "I want to be that skinny!" but I wouldn't want a skinny girlfriend particularly. Personally if I were a size 14 (US 10) I would feel fat even though I can find women that size sexy.

p.s. Nigella Lawson should have been on the list because she is a gorgeous gal who loves to eat the naughty food she makes. She is sex on a plate.

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InesDesoto's picture

CHRISTINA HENDRICKS

every time i see this women in madmen my heart starts to beat like crazy...her hips and boobs are UNREAL