Bust 35"
Waist 25"
Hips/Bum 37"
Maybe I'm not very good at measuring myself or whatever, I see a lot of girls here have similar measurements. Compared to celebrities it seems really off. I have a small waist, I've always been told (by retail people, surgeon, doctors even), that my upper body is very slim and petite and that my "build" is very slim. Yet my waist measurement doesn't seem that small. Maybe my waist just seems small on my total frame, as I have a bit of butt and I'm 5"9. I don't know.
I know for a fact that they lie about models' measurements. They always list them at taller - for the Victoria's Secret models I know that they list them with similar heights and measurements so that they all seem like 'one group'. Alessandra Ambrosio is NOT 177 cm/5"10, you see her next to models like Karolina Kurkova. Realistically, I'm guessing she's below 5"9, 5"8 even.
These are the measurements listed for VS models:
http://victoriassecretvictoriassecret.tumblr.com/post/2421967496/current-victorias-secret-angels-measurementsAs you see they are practically all the same. Alessandra has the same bust measurements as Adriana, but it is evident that Adriana is bigger than Ale. Candice has the same hip measurement as many of the others, but she is actually more pear shaped.
So yes, these things are often made up. I know also because I have model friends, and I see their profiles on FMD and other places and their measurements always seem a little off.
Edit: Blimey, these models' asses are listed 33-34". I've been told I have a good bum many times, but now it feels HUGE.