This document traces the evolution of female body ideals in America from 1910 to 2010 through iconic celebrities and cultural trends of each decade. It shows the Gibson Girl of the 1910s giving way to the flapper of the 1920s, the hourglass figures of stars like Jean Harlow, Rita Hayworth, and Marilyn Monroe in subsequent decades, the thin ideal of Twiggy in the 1960s, the emergence of Farrah Faucet and other curvy bombshells in the 1970s, the rise of supermodels in the 1980s and 1990s exemplified by Elle Macpherson and Kate Moss, and the voluptuous figures popularized by celebrities like Jennifer Lopez, Kim Kardashian, and others