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remember the old movies with grace kelly and elizabeth taylor and you a those itty-bitty waist lines? >> then again, they did have those big skirts. that's an optical illusion. >> audrey hepburn was just tiny everywhere. like cassidy. >> they say in the 50s, average middle-aged woman -- that would have been my mom -- had a 28-inch waist. now, today, in case you're counting, the average measurement is 34 inches. >> one inch per ten years. every decade, one inch. there's a couple of reasons for that. one, women no longer do as much physical housework. that may come as a surprise to all...

six inches in the last 60 years. remember the old movies with grace kelly and elizabeth taylor and you a those itty-bitty waist lines? >> then again, they did have those big skirts. that's an optical illusion. >> audrey hepburn was just tiny everywhere. like cassidy. >> they say in the 50s, average middle-aged woman -- that would have been my mom -- had a 28-inch waist. now, today, in case you're counting, the average measurement is 34 inches. >> one inch per ten years. every decade, one inch. there's a couple of reasons for that. one, women no longer do as much physical housework. t...

good morning. welcome to "today" at 7:00 am on a friday morning. i'm matt lauer. >> i'm ann curry. break news, new report that indicates the economy is spiraling again. >> the fewest jobs in a year and the rise in the unemployment rate at 8.2% is the first increase in 11 months, a live report on that coming straight ahead. >> pretty sobering. and also this fallout over new york city mayor michael bloomberg's to reduce the size of sugary and soft drinks. we asked you to weigh in on our website and the results were very lopsided. we will talk about that with mayor bloomberg, an exc...

diamond jubilee. and just look who has made her way to london to soak it all in today, friday, june 1st, 2012. good morning. welcome to "today" on a friday morning. i'm matt lauer. >> i'm ann curry. fun to see meredith there. it took nearly a month of testimony and nine days of deliberations but in the end a jury in the criminal trial of john edwards came back dead locked on five of the six charges. >> a victory obviously for the former presidential candidate and defeat for the prosecutors who had pushed this complex case forward. coming up we'll hear from john edwards on the jury'...

On the left and on the right, they were handled in the same way. in fact, on the left, they were a little bit, you know, talking more openly about what he had said so i don't know if that's going to stand up that he can blame the g.o.p. for that. >> for the last 18 months, i'm trying to get judith baxter on the phone. it turns out this linguistic expert was on an 18 study into speech pat -- patterns including two companies on the ftse 100. they did a study, who is funnier at work? why are men so much funnier? >> booker? we finished booker? >> we're moving on to brian's topic now. >> she found ...