Women Don’t Mind Fat Men as Long as They Are Rich (Not That We Needed a Study To Tell Us That)

     

It is hardly surprising to find that women do not mind overweight men as long as they wallets are bulging as well as their waistlines.

But now a study has found a formula for how much more money a man needs to earn for each extra pound he puts on if he wants to keep wooing the same kind of women.

Columbia University economist Pierre-Andre Chiappori found that for every 10 per cent increase in body mass index, single men must increase their salary by 2 per cent to keep dating partners of the same level.

So a six-foot man weighing 180 pounds (12st 12lbs) and earning $100,000 would need to get a $2,000 pay rise if he put on 20 pounds, unless he wanted to date less attractive women, reported the New York Post.

The study found that if a woman can offset weight gains by becoming more educated.

According to the paper ‘Fatter Attraction’, single people use physical and socio-economic attractiveness as the principle criteria when looking for people to date.

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