I also changed the wording slightly just in case OKCupid cottoned on and took them down. The profile names had to be slightly different because the site won't allow two the same.

In the 'photos' sections, I put up a range of head shots and body shots of classic 'thin' me and classic 'fat' me. Funnily enough, when that 'thin' me bikini shot was taken, I still thought I was fat. That's why I'm wearing that white skirt - to cover up my 'massive belly' and 'big thighs'.

At size ten, when I looked in the mirror all I thought was, 'could do better'. Over the course of five days, fat me received 18 messages, 74 likes and 81 visits. Thin me received more than double the attention - 36 messages, likes and visits.

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There was nothing dramatically different in the content of the messages - some men just sent a 'hi', some wrote essays, some tried one-liners and others just opted for old-fashioned compliments. And there was little difference in the physical attractiveness of the men messaging - they were a range of ages, shapes and sizes. But it can't be denied that, if the guys of OKCupid are anything to go by, single men prefer thinner women twice as much. Alternatively, though, you could interpret these results slightly differently.

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A size 18 woman, posting some of her least flattering, double chin-featuring pics, received 18 messages in five days. That's 18 more than the body-shaming community might have you expect. The most important element to me is that no matter my size, I'm now twice as confident in my body than I was as a size ten. When I was thinner I was more self-conscious, less confident around men and much more uptight.

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A date with me now would be way more fun than it would have been then. If I went back to a size ten I'd mourn the loss of my boobs more than celebrate my flatter stomach.

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