However, some of the most popular fashion dolls have impossibly thin bodies, which could never be achieved or maintained in a real-life human being. Exposure to images of thin women can decrease ...

I remember making paper dolls from Sears catalogs ... I think we reinforced the models by gluing them to shirt-board (thin cardboard discarded from packaging for men’s shirts) or cardboard ...

Presented with dolls of different shapes, girls in a study aged between three and five consistently preferred the thin version. And it wasn’t just a case of them having a ‘better’ figure.