Stand up straight with your legs, your left and right feet and knees together. If your thighs can't touch each other, congratulations on entering the ranks of "good figure".

Thigh spacing becomes the new body standard.

In recent months, "thigh gap" has become popular on the Internet. Many young girls upload close-up photos of their thighs to "compare" who has a bigger thigh gap, or are glad that they finally "can't close their thighs" after losing weight successfully.

"The distance between my thighs is very large, come and worship my sister", a man named "Foster Beetle" joked. There is also a group on Tumblr social network: "Fight for size 32 (super small), beautiful thigh spacing and flat belly." .

Netizen "elleskyyy" said with joy: "I am so happy to find that I have started to have thigh spacing." Another netizen, "starvingforperfection", found himself "with his thighs still closed."

They prayed to God: Make me thin.

Slimming is not news, but social networks make slimming a myth that a single spark can start a prairie fire. Cara delevingne, a popular British supermodel, has become a specimen for girls to imitate, and dozens of websites and celebrity accounts provide fitness methods to "get thigh spacing".

"Thigh spacing is very rare," explained Barbara Greenberg, a teenage psychologist in Connecticut, USA. "This is essentially a bone structure problem, which is very girly." She thinks it is "unrealistic" for young people to be obsessed with "thigh spacing" because it means "they have to starve themselves to skin and bones."

Girls are very concerned about their obesity: "I ate 380 calories yesterday, and then I ate sugar, and it became 650 calories. Yuck!" The rhythm of getting fat! "A young German girl, Anastasia, wrote on Tumblr:" Pray for God to make me slim down ". Some people are "glad" to go to a friend's house and allow me to spend the night without eating. Great! "

Seek social recognition

According to the recommendation of the World Health Organization, teenagers need to consume 2500 calories every day.

Dieting behavior can lead to eating disorders, damage the brain and bones, and even lead to depression and even suicide.

TV media and magazines are promoting that the ideal figure is "thin everywhere except the chest". Only those who accept this convergent aesthetic will be accepted by the public. Teenagers are in the stage of being recognized by others, and are under pressure that adults can't imagine.

The slimming madman "seeks to be accepted by society and meets the predetermined standards of society." Natalie Boero, a professor of sociology at San Jose University in the United States, said: "Young girls know that in a sexist society, the body is a currency, and they want to increase their recognized social value by slimming down."