Amanda Foreman

It might sound strange to describe New Yorkers as insecure when they delight so much in the cult of success. The display of wealth here, especially new wealth, is indeed wonderfully frank, from the super-long limousines which clog up the roads to the voluptuous fur coats that adorn both men and women.

British Historian

Corey Sevier

A sense of humor is important. I'm always attracted to a girl with confidence. In terms of looks, I don't have a type. I think a lot of girls think that they have to be super-thin, to meet the Hollywood image, but I think a girl who is voluptuous is very beautiful.

Canadian Actor

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

When I started modeling, I was definitely heavier. I was quite voluptuous in fact. I had a real baby face and baby fat. But I was a baby! I was told I had to get into better shape, but I'm quite stubborn so I didn't.

English Model

Drew Barrymore

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

American Actress

Charles Baudelaire

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

French Poet

Christina Hendricks

My mother never said to lose weight. Diets were never a big deal. My mom was always beautiful and voluptuous and curvy, and I always thought she was gorgeous.

Greg Lynn

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

American Architect

Lady Gaga

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

American Singer

Sofia Vergara

In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.

Colombian Model

Vidya Balan

I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!

Indian Actress

More commonly used to describe the female form with a focus on curves.

Gender Specific

The term can sound old-fashioned or less polite when discussing body types today.

Old-Fashioned

Different cultures view the term 'voluptuous' in varying ways; some find it flattering, others offensive.

Cultural Sensitivity

Refers to experiences that please the senses, not just the visual.

Sensory Pleasure

Induces not just happiness but a deeper emotional and physical response.

Emotional Response

Often associated with luxury and indulgence, beyond basic pleasure.

Luxurious Connotations

 today I'm using it to create permanent billowing voluptuous forms the scale of hard-edged buildings and cities around the world I was an unlikely person to be doing this I never studied sculpture engineering or architecture in fact

Taking imagination...

 I first encountered this ordinary material, fishnet, used the same way for centuries. Today, I'm using it to create permanent, billowing, voluptuous forms the scale of hard-edged buildings in cities around the world.

Janet Echelman: Taking...

 and what he said was that one of us had large round voluptuous breasts and clearly this was a married woman with

Voluptuous