The British Journal of Psychiatry (2008) 192: 243-244. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.107.044164
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EDITORIALS

Models as a high-risk group: the health implications of a size zero culture

Janet L. Treasure, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCPsych, Elizabeth R. Wack, MSc and Marion E. Roberts, MSc

Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychological Medicine and Psychiatry, Section of Eating Disorders, King's College London, UK

Correspondence: Janet Treasure, Department of Academic Psychiatry, 5th Floor Bermondsey Wing, Guy's Hospital, London SE1 9RT, UK. Email: j.treasure{at}iop.kcl.ac.uk

Declaration of interest

None.

Janet Treasure (pictured) is a consultant psychiatrist for the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and Professor of Psychiatry at King's College London. She is chief medical advisor for the UK's main eating disorders charity, beat. Elizabeth Wack is a clinical psychology doctoral student at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, USA and Marion Roberts is a research fellow in the Eating Disorders Research Unit at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London.

The size zero culture of the fashion industry is damaging not only to the general public but also to the models themselves. This editorial explores mechanisms unique to this population that increase the risk of developing an eating disorder, and discusses the potential for successful intervention by the fashion and beauty industries in the modelling world.


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