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TANITH CAREY: Why Anya Taylor-Joy's corset photo is so dangerous to impressionable young girls
Just as it looked like we were getting somewhere in terms of healthier body image ideals for young women, along comes actress Anya Taylor-Joy with a throw-back to the 1860s.
On Sunday, to celebrate the premiere of her film Dune: Part Two in New York, the 27-year-old posted a shot of herself wearing the undergarments needed to pull off the dramatic Maison Margiela haute couture gown she wore on the red carpet – namely a corset straight out of the Victorian era, that was cinched so tightly it will have eating disorder counsellors clearing their diaries for the foreseeable. These waist-training corsets – on sale all over Amazon and not surprisingly on offer in Kim’s own shapewear range Skims – encourage young women to punish their own bodies for not conforming to unrealistic ideals. I have listened to the heartbreaking stories of anorexic girls who, every time they look in the mirror, lay this extreme silhouette over their shapes, and want to rub out the parts of their bodies that don’t conform.
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