Body Type
Melissa McCarthy is someone who is often up for discussion in kibbe forums - soft gamine? soft natural? soft classic? This is because she doesn’t have width in her frame, but also doesn’t neatly fit the narrow description of the soft gamine, whilst being too small for a soft classic. In the body matrix I would place her as medium short round; she has some width in the shoulders meaning very tight necklines can feel off against her, she looks small and dainty which comes from her short vertical line and has a soft, curvy frame. This is why a short, a-line skirt feels amazing against her.
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