Blonde beauty Michelle Williams may have already had the hair colour and skin tone required to play the iconic screen goddess Marilyn Monroe when she took up the role in the film ‘Marilyn’, but according to reports, she lacked a little booty.

Thanks to the film, retailers such as JD Williams are celebrating women’s curves with dresses to fit more shapely figures. However, in order to fill out the same dresses as Marilyn, Michelle apparently through caution to the wind when it came to her diet in the lead up to filming. Despite this, the young actress reportedly did not quite fill the boots of Ms Monroe and actually resorted to wearing padded pants in order to give the appearance of a rounded behind.

Ms Williams gives a great performance in the film – which is sure to do well in the box office – but it is a shame we don’t see more curvy actresses on screen in the first instance.

Last year, eyebrows were raised when model Marquita Pring revealed that as a plus-size model she was often still required by clients to use foam padding to achieve a fuller figure.