![]() Some of us mothers send mixed messages too. We bombard them with conflicting messages to stay fit and be healthy (see Michelle Obama) while at the same time asking them not to get too neurotic about their body image. It’s a tough world out there for our teens. Even this level-headed wiki-how is anxiety-producing, in that it confirms the ubiquity of the trend.) (It's true, some of these sites are a parent's nightmare, from Cara’s Thigh Gap on twitter, which I'm not even linking to it because of the inappropriate content, to less-bad-but-still-troubling Operation Thigh Gap. “Usually when you first find out about the thigh gap, the normal instinct is to Google it and one of the things that comes up is Tumblr and you get these crazy blogs on how to get a thigh gap and how to diet so you get it.” “You hear about it from your friends, it just travels,” she says. At the same time, she said, it’s unavoidable. I was relieved when my daughter said she found the trend unhealthy. ![]() ![]() (Still, I must admit to checking in the closet mirror to see if I had one.) topgold/flickr, creative commons Of course, for many, this idealized gap is physically impossible to attain. ![]() I Googled it and was appalled by the latest teenage girl obsession: having ultra-skinny thighs, so much so that one can see a space in between them when feet are touching (hence, the gap) is a trait many teenagers now covet. Twitter facebook Email This article is more than 9 years old.Ī few weeks ago, my 13-year-old daughter brought up the issue of the “thigh gap.”Ī thigh-what? I thought. ![]()
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