Shaping different views: Will Spanx ever be sexy?

IN a scene from the new female buddy cop movie, The Heat, two FBI agents — Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy — get up close and personal in a ladies loo.

Bullock stands with the legs of her cut-off trousers puddled around her ankles, McCarthy looks on in disbelief at her undergarments. “They’re Spanx, they just hold everything together,” offers Bullock’s character as an explanation. To which McCarthy replies: “Why, what’s going to come popping out?”

We pour ourselves into shapewear to look our best in body-hugging clothes. But are we willing to sacrifice feeling sexy for looking slimmer?