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The ideal female body type is getting even harder to attain

  • Written by Frances Bozsik, PhD Candidate in Clinical Health Psychology, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Is muscle definition now being added to an already impossibly thin ideal?Mikhaylovskiy/Shutterstock.com

Day after day, we’re bombarded with so many media messages that rarely do we stop to think about what they’re telling us to think, do or feel.

Much has been written about the unrealistic beauty standards women have been held to. Female...

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