Teenage girls are apparently starving themselves to achieve what many underweight models have: a “thigh gap.”
The “thigh gap” is the space between a very skinny woman’s legs where they don’t touch above the knees.
They specifically often try and emulate the bodies of stick thin models like Cara Delevingne or Eleanor Calder, the girlfriend of One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson.
This is all circling back to the internet problem of thinspiration or thinspo.
Twitter took measures to try and stop these kinds of negative inspirational images from spreading by banning hashtags like #proanorexia and #thinspiration.
Though it’s not like girls can’t just google that stuff and find it anyway.
What needs to happen is women in the limelight need to help promote a healthier body image.
So even though Twitter has removed over 30,000 images of graphically skinny women, it still might not be enough.
Girls need to know they’re beautiful at any weight!
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