Bikini season usually sees women everywhere dust off their exercise DVDs and dive headfirst into the latest crash diet. But when it comes to the ideal figure, it seems curves and an ample posterior win the day. In a poll, both men and women said Kelly Brook had the best bikini body of a range of celebrities. The 31-year-old actress and model is famed for her hour-glass figure.
Jennifer Lopez, almost as well known for her rear as her singing abilities, was in second place, seeing off more willowy rivals. And if the importance of the posterior was in any doubt, Pippa Middleton, whose derriere gained global attention at the royal wedding, was third in the survey of 2,000 people by Gillette Venus. This was largely down to the male vote, who placed her as their second favourite. Women excluded ‘Her Royal Hotness’ from their top three in favour of her more slender sister Kate.
Behavioural psychologist Donna Dawson said: ‘Kelly Brook’s perfectly symmetrical statistics of 34-24-34 give her a waist-to-hip ratio of 0.7, which falls within the deemed optimum range for female attractiveness in Western society. ‘She wins with women because her curvy shape represents a figure women can attain, and for men her hour-glass shape communicates good health to the primordial male brain.’Miss Brook has said that diets ‘bore’ her, adding: ‘I’m not a gym bunny, I hardly ever go. I’m not a skinny girl but, luckily, it goes to all the right places.’