One recent survey found that only 61 per cent of young women and girls in the UK felt happy with their bodies, a significant decline from the 73 per cent that had been found just five years before. Meanwhile, nearly a quarter of seven- to ten-year-olds felt they ‘needed to be perfect’, an already troubling figure that grew much worse with adolescence: in eleven- to twenty-one-year-olds, the proportion soared to 61 per cent.
