Is a “thigh gap” worth starving for?

Thigh gap: When a woman’s legs are so thin that her thighs don’t touch. Right now it’s all the rage on social media with Twitterers and Tumblers sharing photos anxiously captioned, “Three inches to go.”

It’s all fueling a mass obsession and deemed a universal “ideal” instead of a crazy trend.

Not so long ago the “perfect woman,” embodied in Miss Universe, was one whose thighs touched. Read the rest of this entry →