While America is facing the very real problem of childhood obesity, across the pond the British are dealing with another problem. Apparently half of the country’s six-year-old girls want to be thinner.
When I was six I was more concerned with Barbie than my weight, but a recent study conducted at Cambridge University has revealed that the nation’s young girls are scarily preoccupied with their weight, and actually think they’re overweight when they’re not. The experiment will be aired on Tuesday 2 March on the Channel 4 program Jo Frost: Extreme Parental Guidance, and reveals that most of the girls involved in the study think they will be too fat by the time they turn 12.
In the study, the girls were presented with digitally altered photographs of themselves and asked to choose their ideal shape. Half of them chose the image that was three sizes smaller than their current size, which happened to be the skinniest they could pick. Even more surprising is that these girls think being skinnier will make them more popular.
The Sun tabloid interviewed two of the girls’ mothers who blame the fashion media and its Photoshopping craze.
Tags: Weight Loss“[My daughter] Saffron looks through my magazines and says her legs are fat. There is a worrying culture of girls thinking they’re overweight from a very young age,” says one mother. The other mother told the daily newspaper: “These girls idolize models and get depressed.”
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