Brace yourself for this piece of controversial research, boy mamas: An evolutionary psychologist has claimed that attractive women are more likely to have girls than women who are perceived as less attractive.
Wow. He did not just go there, did he?!
But apparently, Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics stands by his research.
For the purpose of his study, Kanazawa tracked 17,000 British babies from they were born in 1958. When they seven, their teachers were asked by Kanazawa to rate the children on their attractiveness. And at age 45, those same children were interviewed again where it was found that the women who’d been rated as most attractive as children, were more likely to have had daughters.
Riiight.
Kanazawa himself believes this is an evolutionary trick, as being pretty benefits women more than men when it comes to attracting a mate. He theorises that men pick beautiful women for relationships, while for women, attractiveness in a man might be important, but a man’s job, status and wealth also play a factor.
So physical attractiveness, while a universally positive quality, contributes even more to women’s reproductive success than to men’s.
As if this wasn’t enough, another study by Markus Jokela, from the University of Helsinki, had similar findings.
Jokela and his team assessed the attractiveness of 1,244 women and 997 men and also recorded how many children they had, and this is what they found:
‘Pretty’ women had 16% more children, and particularly attractive women had 6% more children than their less attractive counterparts. Men who were considered to be not very good looking had 13% fewer children than other men.
But guess what, boy mamas, you don’t have to feel bad – you are, in fact, in some rather gorgeous company.
Here are just some of the stunning women who have given birth to baby boys: Elle Macpherson, Jourdan Dunn, Jennifer Lopez, Miranda Kerr, Linda Evangelista, Gisele Bundchen, Gwen Stefani, Nicole Richie, Alessandra Ambrosio, Kate Hudson, Britney Spears and Naomi Watts (and we could go on and on here!)
