These girls show legs of a length and slimness and firmness and brownness never associated with French womanhood.

NPR: Excerpt: 'World War II Writings'

The natural rounding out of the body that happens in puberty clashes with the unnatural slimness girls see in the culture around them.

CNN: Is it harder to raise boys or girls?

We do this because we've bought into an aesthetic which is so singular and unrelentingly caught up with slimness that to go against it is to see ourselves as somehow disenfranchised, without purchase on what is considered attractive and appealing.

BBC: Interactive Essay: Transcript