Are celebrities causing our daughters to starve themselves?

The other day I read an article about a fashion model angry that the advertiser for which she posed had Photoshopped her body into an anorexic swizzle.

Filippa Hamilton, who stands 5-foot-10 and weighs a scant 120 pounds, is considered underweight by doctors' standards. She claims Ralph Lauren fired her for being too heavy. In a similar incident, the curvy, weight-battling “American Idol” star Kelly Clarkson said Self magazine digitally altered her cover shot, shaving off curves and thighs, giving her virtual liposuction.

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