For example, in 1966, a survey of high school girls found that 50 percent of them believed they were too fat. Three years later, in 1969, 80 percent thought they were too fat. (In reality, only 15 percent of them were even slightly overweight in medical terms.) What changed? In 1966, a seventeen-year-old model named Lesley Hornby was suddenly and sensationally declared to be the new paragon of female beauty. She was announced as “the face of 1966” by the fashion press, and became better known as Twiggy. She weighed 91 pounds. After her rise to fame, fashion models shrank—and women’s hatred of
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