Did Marilyn Monroe Really Wear A Size 14 Or 16 Dress?

When you look at her pictures, it really doesn't see like it, does it?

Often when there's discussion of modern anorexic models, Marilyn Monroe's dress size gets trotted out as an example of not so skinny female beauty.

But it's disingenuous.

Here's some data on her real measurements:

Height: 5'5"
Bust: 37"
Waist: 23"-24"
Hips: 35"

Think about that waist -- it was tiny. It even went down to 22" in some of her adult life; she was a perfect hourglass -- she was not skinny - -but she was not plump, either.

In modern US clothing sizes Marilyn Monroe would probably need a size 6 dress for her waist and hips, and a size 10-11 for her bust. Equivalent modern UK sizes would be 12-14 in the bust, 8-10 in the waist. In the 1950s she sometimes wore what was then a size 12 (now called a "vintage 12") with extra room in the bust.

Monroe mostly wore custom-made dresses during her famous days.

I heard that she was a size 16 on a video about anorexia that I watched in PSD in school?

No who said that he wears a size19

Size 12 i hAd always heard

Size 10