Used to mean "vigorous", "hale and hearty".
Now it refers to a woman with a full figure, voluptuous curves and generously endowed in the bust and hips (as opposed to the bone-thin supermodels shown in the media).
Think of Jennifer Hudson, Beyonce,
Kelly Clarkson, Sara Ramirez,
Queen Latifah, Kate Winslet,
Marilyn Monroe, Anna Nicole Smith, Mia Tyler, Chloe Agnew, America Ferrera, among others.
Why the craze with these
androgynous stick figures
on the runway?! After thousands of years of worshipping buxom,
full figured women with wide hips and lots of curves, we're down to admiring these starving waifs who can barely sustain themselves, much less a baby?