"Eating Disorder Porn"? Victoria's Seceret Fashion Show Slammed

What’s Victoria’s Secret? It might be not feeding the models, say critics of the body images portrayed on Tuesday’s televised fashion show.

It’s “eating disorder porn,” says Harvard pediatrician Dr. Michael Rich. “They are a fantasy that drives you to extreme behaviors which require overcoming normal physiological and instinctual survival drive.”

Rich heads the Center on Media and Child Health at Children’s Hospital Boston, which studies how kids are affected by images in movies, television and the Internet. He and other health professionals interviewed by CBS News worry that the ultra-thin models like those who appeared on the Victoria’s Secret show are pushing young women into unrealistic ideals and, in some cases, eating disorders.

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