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A major new study suggests that anxieties about body shape begin much earlier than usually thought and a majority of girls restrict their food intake.

Girls as young as seven would like to change something about their appearance and half of 16 to 21-year-olds would consider surgery to achieve their perfect body, a study has revealed.

Noah Cyrus, Miley Cyrus' sister, dresses up sexy for Halloween.

Elena Rossini is a freelance film maker who you may know via The Illusionists, a documentary on the marketing of unattainable female beauty that is popular on Twitter.

Self editor Lucy Danziger (pictured) is still making excuses for Photoshopping pop-star Kelly Clarkson. The latest: digital manipulation is simply what readers want!

Good news, fashionistas! Death doesn't mean forsaking your love of cutting-edge fashion. Just take a look at W's September issue, which features scads of stylish women who just happen to be posed as if they've died or are dying a...

I created this collage to illustrate how horribly far the photoshopping went on what is considered a beautiful woman in this culture. Well, maybe not in US culture? Perhaps her nose was too "ethnic" for the cover, so they whittled it away.

This ten-page Italian Vogue editorial from February, 2006, features two Caucasian models made up to look like black women. The photographer? A certain Steven Klein.

Filippa Hamilton, the 23-year-old model who was Photoshopped into a stick insect by Ralph Lauren, has revealed that the brand — which later apologised for the image — quietly fired her for being overweight.