Skinny Birds
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Synopsis
Raw and shocking diaries life the lid on the bad habits and desperate measures women are going to for the sake of looking 'slim enough'

Why does every woman in Britain seem to be unable to escape the diet culture? Raw and shocking diaries life the lid on the bad habits and desperate measures women are going to for the sake of looking ‘slim enough’. Skinny Birds examines our increasingly troubled relationship with our bodies. For every starving model or stick-thin actress there are thousands of unhappy women who take the lead of their icons and obsessively calorie count, binge and vomit and spend thousands on surgery in their quest for unfeasible and unhealthy dimensions. From celebrities whose bodies are constantly scrutinised by the rest of the world to working women who feel that slimness equals success; mothers who are under increasingly intense pressure to regain their figures to the woman who weighs a life threatening four and a half stone and a 30 stone woman who faces drastic surgery. Nine thousand women responded to the Channel 4/Marie Claire survey on which this programme is based.

Duration
1 x 60'
Definition
SD
Genre
Factual
Subgenre
Lifestyle
Producer
PLANET WILD PRODUCTIONS LTD