by Chris Bodenner
A read writes:
As someone in the film business, I can tell you that the amount someone gets paid does not have a direct correlation to their beauty, or even to how willing people are to pay to see them. It's a function of track record as much as anything else, which is why you don't see Megan Fox on that list, despite her being the current hottest (in the sense of business, not looks) actress currently working in Hollywood. She doesn't yet have the kind of track record that her agent can leverage into massive $$$. If I made a top ten list, the only two that would have a CHANCE to make it from the highest-paid list are Angelina and Halle. If you want to understand men's idea of beauty in it's purest form, look at men's magazines. Maxim, FHM, Zoo Weekly, and Nuts (last two UK). Those mags are marketed exclusively to men (unlike movies) and they know what we like: Fit girls with great curves and soft, small features, lustrous skin, and shiny, healthy hair. There are random women in the back pages of those mags who put 99% of anorexic Hollywood actresses and NYC fashion models to shame.
This UK study (photo NSFW, kinda) found that the ideal female body size according to men is 12 and women 8. (The actual average is 16.) It's not a survey of Americans, and the corresponding US sizes are a little skewed, but the basic conclusions also seem true here.