The control group, meanwhile, supported those conventional ideals, finding the figure with a BMI of 18.45 - which, technically, qualifies as underweight - the most attractive. ''Natural' is a word that often crept up in my conversations with FAs, i.e., they viewed their preferences as normal it was just that mainstream society didn't 'accept' those ideals.' 'Most understand that their ideals of beauty are not 'mainstream,' but I don't think it's really perceived as something rebellious,' Swami told LiveScience. Viren Swami, a psychology professor at England's University of Westminster and a lead researcher on the study, says that these findings suggest a rejection of the 'sociocultural norms of attractiveness.'
