Young Women Are Visiting “Thigh Gap” Social Media Sites Dedicated To The Fad

Some teenage girls are so obsessed with copying stick-thin celebrities they are starving themselves to achieve the much-coveted “thigh gap” and visiting social media sites dedicated to the fad.

Young women have become fixated with their legs not touching each other and hope to copy the thin frames of models, The Daily Star reports.

Admirers of the look, which means legs are so thin that they don’t touch above the knees, have created Twitter accounts dedicated to the “thigh gap”.

The newspaper said Twitter users had threatened to “starve themselves” to reach the “longed-for look”.

They are also using the social networks to share tips and pictures and “inspire” each other’s misguided attempts to copy their favourite celebrities and models.

"Fat Amy" tweets what she thinks about the "thigh gap" fad.

Naturally-slim Alex Chung removed a photo of herself and her mother from her Instagram account last year after followers began dissecting her body image and calling her “thin-spiration” for younger people.

Chung replied to the commentary, writing: “Ok everyone thanks for the teen angst discussions.”

“People are different sizes. I'm not trying to be thinspo for anyone.”

Susan Ringwood, chief executive of UK eating disorder charity B-Eat, told The Daily Star: “Hardly anyone has a thigh gap without being underweight, or not yet fully adult.”