Did you know that in 1970 the average age of a girl who started dieting was 14, but by 1990 the average dieting age fell to only eight years old? Or that young girls are more afraid of becoming fat than they are of a nuclear war, being diagnosed with cancer or losing their parents? These statistics scare me even after reading them hundreds of times. Are there really people, girls just like me, who think like that?
In the summer of 2008 I started the campaign Who Wants to be a Size Zero Anyway? on www.battlefront.co.uk. It is a website run by Channel 4 where people can get advice on running a campaign and upload it to the site to get others involved. The aim of my campaign is to make women feel happier about themselves and more positive about their body image.
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