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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Kate Ng

Women are sharing the Nineties tropes that triggered their body dysmorphia

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For people of all ages, the struggle with body image is often a fact of every day life. But millennial women, in particular, have recently begun dissecting why their sense of body dysmorphia is so pronounced .

To do that, we have cast our eyes back to Nineties and Noughties, a time when “heroin chic” dominated headlines and fashion spreads, and Kate Moss uttered the infamous phrase: “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.”

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