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90 per cent of teenage girls believe that they are overweight, compared with 24 per cent in 1995, according to a recent ELLEgirl survey.
there is another profoundly important yet little noticed dynamic at work in the anxious, achievement-oriented lives of perfect girls: they have a sometimes deadly, often destructive, lack of faith.

We think that our perfect bodies – not God's grace or good works – will get us into heaven.

We have no deeply held sense of our own divinity, so we chase after some unattainable ideal.

I'm hoping for an inspired movement towards community, where girls are nourished with dinner-table conversations about the values of kindness and charity; where girls undergoing puberty are encouraged to embrace the miraculous, complex, and perfectly imperfect bodies they possess; and where girls can find inspiration – not condemnation – in religious texts.