There is a new generation (5-13 year olds) of young children who are now spending time obsessing about their body image. Children this age have traditionally been carefree and unselfconscious about their bodies and appearance but as society becomes increasingly obsessed with body image children are echoing what is going on in the adult world. These children are not overweight, they're normal and healthy, but from a very early age they're buying into the whole 'thin is beautiful' culture. This film will get under the skin of the world of young girls who are striving to make themselves perfect. There's a trend for ever younger girls to diet while others go to the gym. Some are obsessed with having beauty treatments even though they are only nine years old. We will hear from an eight-year-old who wears high heels and revealing clothes because it makes her feel more sexy. The days of borrowing your mother's lipstick and dressing up in her clothes are well and truly over. When we listen carefully to what they're saying there is a worrying undercurrent: these girls are teetering on the edge of the slippery slope to obsessing about their weight and their looks. We find out what health professionals and parents think about this previously teenage/twentysomething phenomenon which is now manifesting itself in young children. The film will offer a revealing insight into this previously unseen world. Told through powerful stories and with an honesty that only children can give, it is fresh and compelling.