Middle name X didn't cause all those photoshopped articles to show up. I am sure it was the optical illusion t-shirts. The female bust optical illusion is likely the start of things. And then the big butts showed up in the image feed. I can't imagine what makes women want really large butts, so went down the research path. This is the evolutionary rationale:
“The reason narrow waists and broad hips are so prized -- the reason males rate these as being attractive, even though they don’t have any insight into why they do -- is two-fold. It means, if a woman has a narrow waist, she’s not pregnant. And if she has broad hips it means that the underlying skeletal morphology is probably such that she’d be able to have a relatively unencumbered childbirth."
This is quite an obsession - articles start pouring in around 2015 onwards. The Daily Mail UK had an in-depth article on the topic. A marketing assistant has 30 minute treatments that, week by week, is bringing her closer to her dream of a "perkier, peachier behind." A picture of Kim Karashian's bikini'd bottom shows up in the article and it is a big - really big. You can scroll down the Daily Mail article to see it HERE. It is too ugly for me to include in the post. I found another post in the Guardian.com and Kim's butt is on display HERE. It is shown in a see-through lace evening gown so not as alarming. There is lots to read about her butt - including her "fake'" photoshopped butt compared to her real butt photographed by paparazzi.
And then there are the Butt-focused gym celebrities. The two that pop up are Tammy Hembrow, in her 20s with 10 million fans. The other butt celebrity is Katya Elise Henry - with most recent Instagram post of her big butt and baby bulge making an S curve. The picture has some sort of photoshopping quirk to emphasizes the S, sort of strange given the Kardashian photoshopped images. These Instagram posts seem to be more soft porn than physical fitness. That seems to be the point.
To go along with this, the butt fashion industry is in full swing - 2021 had Amazon's butt-crack leggings with the built-in butt-crack. They are known as tik tok leggings. Lots of reviews with accompanying pictures.
This is all new to me - it is like I woke up today and found out I'd missed 7 years of popular culture. I blame the Globe and Mail - these stories don't show up in the Globe and Mail headlines.
Lilycrest Gardens - the original picture was taken in 2008, on a rainy, misty day in Lilycrest Gardens' hybridizing field. To grow a blue lily will require some significant genetic work. I relied on Photoshop.
