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When I purchased a copy of Evie’s print magazine in May, I was alarmed at how the magazine not only promoted radical skinniness but also discouraged women from healthy habits like exercise.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

She talks about so-and-so’s skinniness as compared to your daughter’s?

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2019

Even in her early films, her height, her skinniness and her wistfulness combined to get her noticed.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 20, 2011

I think that starting in the ’90s, and certainly continuing on, people got a little obsessed with skinniness.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2010

He stared down at my dirty clothes, my skinniness, the squirming bundle at my back.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer


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