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  • noun informal thinspiration

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Examples

  • Many contain "thinspo" galleries featuring heavily edited photographs of emaciated girls above captions such as "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels", or "Fat is dirty and hangs off your bones like a parasite".

    'Blogging about my anorexia helped save my life' 2011

  • Look for the words "trigger warning," thinspo code indicating that you've reached a pro-anorexia blog aka pro-"ana" in thinspo speak.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post 2012

  • Travel far enough down the rabbit hole of Tumblr's thinspo community -- which often overlaps with the platform's blogs devoted to health and fitness, dubbed "fitblrs" -- and you'll find cautionary signs advising those prone to disordered eating to venture no further.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post 2012

  • Kate, whose last name and Tumblr URL have been withheld to protect her identity, is a guru of "thinspo" short for "thinspiration".

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post 2012

  • Sixteen-year-old Antonia last name withheld also runs a popular, photo-based thinspo blog out of her bedroom.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post 2012

  • Although thinspiration sites have been around nearly as long as the Internet itself -- as far back as 2001, Yahoo! removed roughly 115 sites pro-ana was the label used at that time citing violations of the company's terms of service -- the depth and scope of Tumblr's teen thinspo community seems unprecedented.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post 2012

  • Search for "thinspo" on Tumblr, and you'll find a landing page

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post 2012

  • Tumblr-based thinspo blogs are a sort of pro-ana 2.0, forgoing chat rooms and message boards in favor of eerily elegant images, sophisticated design, pop-culture references, private messaging, and street-style sensibility.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post 2012

  • The poster girl for thinspo bloggers is Cassie, the starry-eyed, anorexic pill-popper of the British teen television drama

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post 2012

  • Tricia's Triumph Over Binge Eating Disorder real girl thinspo ಌ upbeatttt (shattered glass)

    WN.com - Articles related to Eating disorders in children, Part 1- An Overview 2010

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  • "These sites provide so-called “tips and tricks�? on losing weight the lethal way. But they also produce, or link to, a YouTube and Flickr microgenre that goes by the name of Thinspiration, or Thinspo. The Internet is jammed with it."

    The New York Times, The Girls of Thinspo, by Virginai Heffernan, April 30, 2008

    June 2, 2008