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“Bonespiration” is an unsettling social media trend

Social media users are getting around a longtime ban with a new hashtag.

Back in 2012, the hashtag #thinspiration was banned because of the disturbing pictures of women and girls looking deathly thin.  Now, “#bonespiration” is resulting in even worse photos.

Imagine a girl showing off her rib cage and back bones.  Here’s the most concerning part -- Psychologist Catherine Talbot of Exeter University Medical School said she had found 140,000 images on Instagram linked to bonespiration in the last week alone.

Of those, 26% of bonespiration images show protruding hip bones, 23% ribs and 22% collarbones.

Catherine Talbot says a ban isn’t what’s needed, classes on positive body image are. 


Source: New York Post