Half of Britains six-year-old girls want to be thinner

By Nick Collins Published: 12:59PM GMT twenty-two February 2010

Many of the girls questioned in the investigate pronounced they thought being skinnier would have them some-more renouned Photo: ALAMY

Half the six-year-olds asked to collect their preferred physique figure from a range of digitally changed images of themselves chose one that was 3 sizes not as big than the genuine picture the slimmest choice they could choose.

Many of the girls questioned in the study, by Cambridge University, pronounced they thought being skinnier would have them some-more popular.

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The examination was carried out forward of Jo Frost: Extreme Parental Guidance, a radio programme to be screened on Channel 4 on Tuesday.

The mom of six-year-old Saffron Davis, who opted for the thinnest image, pronounced the courtesy since to distance 0 models was obliged for creation normal immature kids overweight.

She told The Sun: "Saffron looks by my magazines and says her legs are fat. There is a worrying enlightenment of girls meditative they"re overweight from a really immature age."

Last week it was reported that five-year-old Lucy Davis, 3st 9lbs, had been classed as "unhealthily fat" by NHS doctors in Poole, Dorset since she was one per cent over her preferred Body Mass Index.