There are places on the Internet that prey upon teenage insecurity and pose a real threat to girls who are unhappy about how they look. They are websites that urge teens to lose weight at any cost.The ...

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If you type in “thinspiration” into google you get over a thousand hits of blogs written by young women and their journey to become thin. What does this have to do with the fashion industry? Kate Moss ...

RICHMOND, Va. – Seeing extremely thin bodies on social media sites like Tumblr and Instagram pushed 20-year-old Amanda Campbell back into her eating disorder. The pictures of emaciated women and the ...

Body image is the way a person perceives the way we look, and the way they assume others perceive them. Especially for young people, this image can be impacted by media, friends and social pressures.

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Pinterest users have begun a civil war against fellow users who promote "thinspo" images on the scrapbook site by polluting the #thinspo tag with ...

a "thinspo" website, has taken aim at a new target: 20-year-old swimsuit model Kate Upton. The "thinspiration" movement walks hand-in-hand with the pro-anorexia movement, encouraging women to ...

Body image is the way a person perceives the way we look, and the way they assume others perceive them. Especially for young people, this image can be impacted by media, friends and social pressures.