curvy
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She looks up at the image, admitting: “Look at me, I was a goddess. I had no idea. I thought I was fat, unfashionably curvy and unattractive.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026
Josephina Finch from Canterbury said she wanted to have the procedure because she "liked a curvy look" and "having an hourglass figure".
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026
On a curvy dockside stretch in Key West, Fla., called Lazy Way Lane is a worn out white bunker building with no windows.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026
This is despite many designers adopting looks that naturally create curvy silhouettes, such as corsets.
From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025
The most recent pictures were all of her before, when she was healthy, uploaded postmortem by friends: a beautiful girl, wide-hipped and curvy, with long, straight deadblack hair falling over her face.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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