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YWCA warns: Beauty obsession a danger to American women
Hungry fashion models, sexed-up tweens and 50-year-old actresses with baby-plump faces. Today's pursuit of beauty ideals is an all-too-familiar narrative steeped in medical wizardry, sexual objectification and sheer self-deprivation.
By Emili Vesilind
August 19, 2008
