The Japanese Invented a Weight Standard That Everyone Suffered From (8 photos)
Yes, and the Japanese suffer too! It was the Japanese who introduced the formula for calculating the weight by which you are never good enough. This standard is called the "Cinderella Weight". 
How much is Cinderella's weight? 
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Or, as it is also called in Japan, "Beautiful weight". That is, they have two standards for a girl, they write this on social networks. My standard weight is 60 kilos, but my beautiful weight is 50 kilos. Being normal is not being beautiful! They came up with this name in the 80s, supposedly Cinderella is one of the most beautiful princesses, she was a symbol of beauty and desirability. 
A Korean Woman in Cinderella Weight
The Cinderella formula sounds more complicated than usual: Square your height in meters and multiply the resulting number by 18. For example, my Cinderella weight at 169 is…. 51 kilograms! Do you know how much I weigh, considering myself beautiful? 70. Well, maybe I'll lose three kilos by summer. 
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This is my balanced weight according to the previously accepted standard scheme of healthy weight - height minus 100. And now they still say height minus 110. Japanese women go even lower down this rabbit hole. Once, under great stress, I lost weight to this weight (during a breakup with my first love). I don’t know why someone would consider this skeleton with protruding ribs “as beautiful as Cinderella”. 
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Japanese women are really thin
Yes, but not only Japanese women. The Japanese too, because they do not have such accepted sweet food as in the West, sweets (especially traditional ones) are not sweet. They eat fish, miso, beans - such simple low-calorie food, well, and rice. A different food culture from childhood makes the entire nation healthier in nutrition than dozens of others. But this is not enough for Japanese women, they do not want to be normal, they want to be thin. 
Japanese Idol Girl Looking Cool
You're not pretty if your BMI is over 18 (by the way, by world standards, under 18.5 is already unhealthy thinness). They say this to idols and young girls. They all watch each other viciously, who dared to gain weight. For hips that don't look like sticks sticking out from under a skirt, a singer will be branded fat. If you're normal in your country, but go to Japan, I bet you'll be a chubby by local standards. 
If a Japanese woman weighs 70 kilos, she is ashamed of herself
The culture will not allow Japanese women to eat
The thing is that Japanese magazines ALWAYS have articles about weight loss and diets. Even in our Cosmo, which is very girly, they have stopped messing around with such nonsense. But in Japanese publications for girls from middle and high school, this has always been a key material along with fashion trends. 
Only in Korea are the requirements more terrifying, there are some idols who were forbidden to gain more than 45 kilos.
And then they start allowing only the thinnest female singers on stage, the less "feminine fat" they have, the more attractive they are considered. Which is quite strange, because anime is full of curvy girls with impressive not only busts, but also hips. Do you think Cinderella's weight is acceptable?
