The Danger of the Popular ‘Princess Diet’: How Aesthetic Pressure Affects Girls

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The consumers of the Disney universe are small girls, so the new viral fashion of ‘the diet of princesses’ uses their model bodies to inspire a diet that brings them closer to being princesses, to be flattered by their beauty and, indirectly — or very directly — to tell them that thinness makes them protagonists, loved and worthy of success. On the other hand, Disney villains are fat, such as Ursula or the Queen of Hearts, and with characteristi…