The thin ideal is the concept of the ideally slim female body. The common perception of this ideal is a woman who possesses a slender, feminine physique...

the thin ideal, which may lead to an individual accepting and "buying into" the thin ideal. In turn, Thompson and Stice assert that if the thin ideal is...

curvaceous or "hourglass-shaped" body ideal may be more salient for Black women than the mainstream thin ideal. Various studies in the United States have...

create non-exclusive models of Western ideals in body type for young girls who do not match the thinness ideal that Barbie represents. Mattel responded...

Critiquing the thin ideal in pro-anorexia online spaces. Elle compared the saying with the quote "You can never be too rich or too thin" by Wallis Simpson...

women were more likely to have internalised the thin ideal (accepted the Western concept that thinness equals attractiveness) than lesbian and bisexual...

are either naturally thin and thus unrepresentative of normality or unnaturally thin by forcing their bodies to look like the ideal image by putting excessive...

suggests that women are mostly influenced by media images that promote The Thin Ideal body type, whereas men are mostly influenced by media images that promote...

to be thin, teasing and bullying can cause low self-esteem and other psychological symptoms. Persistent exposure to media that present thin ideal may constitute...

consequences. The media perpetuate this ideal in various ways, particularly glorifying and focusing on thin actors and actresses, models, and other public...