I think there is something to what you are saying. The curvy women don't appear anymore except On Spanish TV and some places still in Europe. Its been wiped out in much of America; probably for the exact reason of who runs the industry now.
Yep, yet, most men say they prefer curvy women- but the media, advertisers, Hollywood, and modeling agencies still promote the skinny, no shape, almost andorgenous look. Dime to donuts that the majority of men would take Kate Winslet over a runway model anyday.
True! Spanish TV rocks! It must still be controlled by heterosexuals, unlike Anglo TV.
To make matters worse, a lot of obese-in-denial women (either in denial about the fact that they're obese, or in denial about how unattractive it is, or both), use the descriptors once correctly applied to healthy women, to falsely describe themselves: "curvy", "pleasingly plump", "voluptuous", etc. to describe themselves. Hence those terms have been ruined for their original usages. (Just try saying on a matchmaking site, "Looking for a curvy woman...", as I once did when I was still single -- you will be deluged by messages from the pathologically obese.)
I believe it was CS Lewis who pointed out that Satan tries to bring sin to us in pairs of opposites, trying to use our extra dislike of one to make us fall into the other. This is clearly the case with weight. The moderate healthy category of physique -- the norm generations ago (see old movies, for instance) and still in Europe -- no longer seems to exist in people's minds in this country. Partly this is due to the hijacking of language above, and partly to the gay media problem I noted in post 78.
At any rate, American women are presented with a false choice: anorexia or obesity. Both are wrong, the victims of both are often in deep denial, and both are at epidemic levels.