Olympic Girls

Olympic hostesses had to strip naked so their body proportions could be measured to ensure only the most perfect women represented China at the Games. This was just one of the meticulous demands for the women who would end up in the glare of the world's media.

The Beijing Organising Committee for the Games of the 29th Olympiad (BOCOG) also required the candidates' eyes to be exactly 30% down the length of their face.

Their faces needed to meet stringent standards, including the ratio between the "width of the nose and the length of the face" and "width of the mouth and width between the pupils".

The girls all had to be university-educated, aged 18 to 24, and between 5ft 5in and 5ft 8in, with a "ruddy and shiny complexion", "elastic skin" and "a plump but not fat body".