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Eva Herzigova
Eva Herzigova/Herzegovina is a supermodel that has stood out for unusually large breasts, non-broad shoulders and curves for a fashion model. Given her high status among fashion models, her looks are informative about the extent of femininity that top fashion designers will tolerate.
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Let us start with the face of Eva Herzigova, which is unambiguously masculine (Fig 1).
Fig 1. A young Eva Herzigova.
The extent of femininity of Eva is best assessed by comparing her to a feminine woman having an apparently similar ethnic background, i.e., a broad-faced Central European type. The woman used for comparative purposes is glamour model Nikky Case.
The facial features of Nikky are more feminine than those of Eva (Fig 2).
Fig 2. Nikky Case from the June 2006 edition of Penthouse.
Nikky has sharp gonial angles, but she has a feminine physique, as shown shortly, and her face is more feminine than Eva’s (Fig 3). Therefore, the sharpness of her gonial angles do not appear to be related to masculinization.
Fig 3. Nikky Case picture from the June 2006 edition of Penthouse.
Eva has more manly hands than Nikky (Fig 4).
Fig 4. Nikky Case picture from watch4beauty (W4B).
The feet of Eva (Fig 5) are relatively larger than those of Nikky (Fig 6). Taller women will have larger hands and feet, but if they are larger relative to height, then masculinization is suggested if there is corroborating evidence.
Fig 5. Picture of Eva Herzigova on the left from the August 2004 edition of Playboy.
Fig 6. Nikky Case, identified as Irena, from Twistys.
The rib cage of Eva is relatively larger than that of Nikky, making it difficult for Eva to achieve an hourglass figure (Figures 7-9).
Fig 7. Picture of Nikky Case, identified as Irena, from Twistys.
Fig 8. Picture of Nikky Case from Men Only magazine.
Fig 9. Nikky Case, identified as Irena, from Karupspc.
The picture below shows Eva striking a pose that accentuates the rounding of the hips, but when a more feminine woman is found posing similarly, the appearance of a feminine, hourglass figure is much more striking.
Fig 10. Nikky Case picture from watch4beauty (W4B).
The backside of Eva is flatter and less feminine than that of Nikky (Figures 11-13).
Fig 11. Nikky Case picture from the June 2006 edition of Penthouse.
Fig 12. Picture of Nikky Case, identified as Irena, from Twistys. Once again notice the importance of a small and thereby feminine rib cage in achieving a feminine, hourglass figure.
Fig 13. Picture of Nikky Case, identified as Irena, from Twistys.
Eva Herzigova rapidly rose to international fame while working as a Wonderbra model in the 1990s. She was at her curviest then, as some pictures from her early modeling career, shown above, illustrate. She has even been described as the “Marilyn of the 1990s,” which is not unreasonable given the standards of the fashion world, but compared to women in general, Eva was never particularly feminine, and compared to attractive women from the perspective of the typical lifetime-exclusive heterosexual man, Eva has excessive masculinization and unimpressive looks.
Eva eventually gravitated toward mainstream fashion modeling. It would have been remarkable if her “curvy” physique from her wonderbra days had been tolerated by gay fashion designers for the purposes of mainstream fashion modeling, but this has not been the case. Since gravitating toward mainstream fashion modeling, Eva’s weight has fluctuated, reaching the lows shown in Figures 14-16, interspersed with looks closer to but not matching her former self, as in her 2004 Playboy shoot (Fig 17).
Fig 14. Skinny Eva Herzigova in 2003. Yes, the fuzz on her arm is hair.
Fig 15. Skinny Eva Herzigova in 2003.
Fig 16. Eva Herzigova in the February 2005 edition of Flair magazine.
Fig 17. Eva Herzigova from Playboy (Aug. 2004) and Nikky Case from watch4beauty (W4b).
Chances are that pressure from gay fashion designers has forced Eva to periodically diet to conform to the skinny and masculine physique preferred by them. Therefore, even as a wonderbra model, Eva Herzigova was hardly feminine compared to what Playtex Apparel Inc., the maker of wonderbra, could easily have obtained if it were looking for feminine and attractive women, and in spite of her high status, she has apparently faced pressure by gay fashion designers to reduce whatever curves she had in order to work as a mainstream fashion model. Hence, the example of Eva Herzigova, one of the highest status fashion models ever, is another piece of evidence that the dominant fashion designers, male homosexuals to be more precise, do not tolerate feminine looks well.
(Posted on July 14, 2006 | Tags: Attractive women, Fashion models, Nudes)Comments (9) | Notify others
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Blahblah. Who cares.
I agree that skinny Eva does not look good, but that’s because she looks unhealthy. Other than that, they’re both attractive women.
But, please, could you cover the girls up more? To analyze their body shape nobody needs to see areolas or pubes. It doesn’t actually do alot for the credibility of this site which is pretty non-existant to start with.
Posted by Nooz on September 13, 2006 at 07:10 AM | #
Nooz: Some people do care about the issues addressed within this site. Areolas do not have much visual erotic appeal, and the genitals are censored if necessary, i.e., if the labia are obscured by pose/lighting or hidden by pubic hair, then there is no reason to censor the pubic region. Covering up the women more is not going to help with credibility when it come to people like you, and there are people who would dismiss this site even if all the women shown had their bodies covered by an opaque skintight garment.
Posted by Erik Holland on September 14, 2006 at 08:35 AM | #
i agree that eva is less attractive facially--but i thin kher body is the same shape as nikki’s excluding about twenty pounds---maybe more. i really don’t see how her rib cage is big as i believe she had a 22-23 inch waist? hard to do with a big rib cage. also i think her hands/feet looked large partially cuz her body was so little and thin.
Posted by gia on October 13, 2006 at 11:38 PM | #
Gia: The pictures of Eva Herzigova used to evaluate the relative size of her hands and feet do not show her as very skinny and most of those used to evaluate the relative size of her rib cage show Eva at her most feminine self. Eva’s ribcage is not very big, but it is relatively larger than that of Nikky’s. It is highly unlikely that Eva’s waist measured 22-23 inches in young adulthood.
Posted by Erik Holland on October 14, 2006 at 10:01 PM | #
whoever who wrote this insane comparison is utterly CRAZY - and probably has som sick and unhealthy relationship towards women
Posted by dee on April 29, 2007 at 03:33 PM | #
This seems to me to be an objective and useful article. I don’t understand the remark that it reveals a bad attitude toward women. It is only antagonistic to a male gay fashion elite who dictate the aesthetic standard in a way that clashes with natural heterosexual norms. It is well-known among heterosexual men and anyone else who cares to ask them that glamour models like Nicky Case are more sexually attractive.
The case is well made in this article. Eva’s hands and feet are CLEARLY bigger. Fig.12 clearly shows that the rib-cage of Nicky Case nips in more at the bottom than Eva’s. I don’t think the remarks about the facial differences are pejorative or controversial; just objective.
An objective treatment of these matters can help general understanding. It’s not about attacking masculine women or feminine men. There’s no obvious thread of this in the article anyway. As a heterosexual man, I feel for women who appear to be comparing themselves to unnatural standards. Having said all this, I wouldn’t kick Eva out of bed. Circa Wonderbra, anyway…
Posted by Gee on June 19, 2007 at 04:28 PM | #
photo sexy
Posted by sahar on July 30, 2007 at 11:27 AM | #
someone thinks only low rent models are women! Hmmmm.
Posted by don on April 22, 2008 at 10:28 PM | #
There’s a bit of an obsession with ‘masculinity’ in women throughout the whole of this site. It’s, especially in this article, tenuous to say the least. The reason these women are high fashion models is because they have interesting and sculptural faces. They are not average women with average feminine features, what would be the point in singling them out if they were?
Interesting faces are, on the whole, found to be more beautiful than plain faces because, funnily enough, they would portend personality (not necessarily rightly). There is something to look at, you can explore their faces with curiosity. The girls on your ‘Attractive Women’ page are incredibly boring to look at! They’re pretty girls, the kind that you might pick out in a pub or in your workplace but on the grand scale of all that is available, fairly average. Pleasant, but average.
The girl-next-door, wifey look is difficult to pull off because it requires a whole new set of rules, and generally is more restricting in visuals, both poses and styling, and can look tacky very easily. This is the other half of the modeling world which you have not touched upon and I might suggest looking into the correlation between these girls’ features and children’s features. Rounded fuller faces and larger foreheads (predominant on your ‘Attractive Women’ page) are main infantile facial features.
Neither is surprising, they are each the results of male fantasy, the dominating amazonian statuesque beauty, or the docile innocent naivety of youth.
That said it is all in swings and roundabouts, as is the nature of the fashion world, the fifties model was full-cheeked, narrow-jawed and had high hairlines.
It is an interesting observation but you devote too much time to it creating strong bias in your site. A compelling debater will always explore the alternatives and oppositions.
(By the way, the term ‘masculinization’ would suggest they’ve had things done specifically to create a masculine look which is highly improbable.)
Posted by dot-to-dot on April 28, 2008 at 09:46 PM | #
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