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"Living in New York City truly is a girl&amp;#039;s dream come true, but it&amp;#039;s not always easy. Walking down Fifth Avenue on any given day, you&amp;#039;re going to pass countless fashionistas, models, and girls who look like models. It&amp;#039;s easy to start thinking, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not pretty enough,&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not fashionable enough,&amp;quot; and especially, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not thin enough.&amp;quot; When I first started school in New York, my friends and I got caught up trying to be all of these things. A couple of my really close girlfriends struggled with eating disorders. It was really hard to see them go through this, but I can understand why they got to that point. Being super thin was in our heads as the image of what was beautiful, even though it totally wasn&amp;#039;t. I&amp;#039;ve talked to a few of my guy friends about this and they all agree that it&amp;#039;s not attractive when a girl is extremely stick thin. Besides that, it&amp;#039;s a really unhealthy lifestyle to maintain and can have dangerous consequences. For more information about the dangers of eating disorders look here. It&amp;#039;s easy to look at models and the girls on TV and want to look like them. Recently, the media has noticed that the actresses on 90210 are really skinny. Most girls in the spotlight are pretty thin. We shouldn&amp;#039;t feel like we have to live up to that kind of standard, but sometimes it&amp;#039;s hard not to feel the pressure. In reality, girls who are content with themselves \u2014 imperfections included \u2014 are the most beautiful to those around them. They end up having the best sense of style because they have confidence. Do you feel pressure to be super skinny? xoxo, Lauren Web Intern "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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