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9 In 10 Teen Girls Feel Pressured By Fashion Industry To Be Thin: Poll

First Posted: 04/04/2010 5:12 am Updated: 05/25/2011 3:25 pm

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Almost nine in 10 American teenage girls say they feel pressured by the fashion and media industries to be skinny and that an unrealistic, unattainable image of beauty has been created, a poll showed on Monday.

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DaithiO
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09:13 PM on 02/02/2010
Of course HuffPost, with all it's telephoto shots of body parts of various celebrities wouldn't have anything to do with promoting this.
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ark82
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04:41 PM on 02/02/2010
Actually, the reverse issue needs to be studied: obesity. This epidemic is what is truly ravaging our country whereas only the mortality rate among people with anorexia has been estimated at 0.56 percent per year. Calorie restriction is what most females and males in this country need. The models I know eat extremely healthy food and enjoy fitness. Perhaps we should emulate some of their lifestyles instead of drowning ourselves in self-pity, jealousy and junk-food?
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04:40 PM on 02/02/2010
There is a middle ground. Too skinny is just as unattractive as too plump. Curves are good, spare tires are bad.

Most men want to snuggle up with something soft instead of a skeleton.
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mmj200
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02:24 PM on 02/02/2010
...and in other news....water is wet.
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lholguin
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12:16 PM on 02/02/2010
Yeah, I know it's dumb but I feel ugly a lot because I don't look like you know... Prozac helps..
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dmsdzinr
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09:08 AM on 02/02/2010
Fashion Illustration has ALWAYS favored the incredibly THIN & LANKY. It is just the Fashion Style.
THE PROBLEM arises when the Fashion Industry tries to make HUMAN girls/women look like Fashion Drawings. It is just NOT Right and certainly NOT HEALTHY nor Realistic.
It is as CRAZY as dying people's skin blue to make them look like the creatures in AVATAR!
Women SHOULD protest the trend and relish their curves.
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