Very young skinny girls

Katie Scott, 21, a student and lives in Guildford, Surrey tells of how she would spend hours looking at pictures of 'extremely thin' girls online. As the Royal College of Psychiatrists warns that online content encouraging eating disorders is "out of control", a mum and daughter tell us their terrifying story. I would spend hours looking at them and poring over the comments below. I was 11 when I started using social media. At first, I had a Facebook account, then I moved on to reading blogs and forums. And at 13 I signed up to Instagram.

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A new study shows that, despite the best efforts of health professionals, young women are more obsessed than ever with losing weight and are convinced that being thin is the key to being happy and popular. They consider Britney Spears has the best female body, but the perfect woman is a combination of Rachel Stevens face , Christina Aguilera breasts and stomach , Beyonce legs , J-Lo bottom and Britney arms. A quarter of year-old girls say they have 'considered having plastic surgery' or taking diet pills to achieve an 'ideal' waif-like physique. And despite the rise of larger stars, including Kelly Osbourne, Pink and Pop Idol winner Michelle McManus, most teenage girls view such celebrities as having the 'worst' kind of female body. Despite the fact that only 19 per cent of teenage girls are actually overweight, a staggering 67 per cent feel they need to lose at least half a stone.

Susanna Reid. Pop into any newsagent and you'll be bombarded by images of stick-thin models and luminous headlines advising young women how to shed the pounds. But during today's Good Morning Britain, the reality of the ideals girls have placed on themselves became a terrifying reality when one teen looked at a magazine, pointed at a model and claimed: "Clothes look better on her because she's skinny.