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Female Looksmaxing Targeting Girls as Young as 13 With Extreme Body Modification
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Something Strange Is Happening To Gen Z - Isabel Brown - #1106
"Tips that follow range from corset maxing, shrinking your rib cage through binding, to injecting unlicensed weight loss drugs, to peanut maxing, literally chewing peanuts to sculpt a sharper, wider jaw. A 17-year-old told her skull has serious flaws, or a 14-year-old encouraged to get a rhinoplasty. Girls as young as 13 upload pictures only to be torn apart."
The podcast exposed a growing female looksmaxing subculture on Reddit and Discord where teenage girls receive brutal appearance critiques and advice on extreme modifications including rib cage binding and unlicensed injections. Brown and host Chris Williamson discussed how this represents a more sinister evolution than male looksmaxing, targeting girls during vulnerable developmental years with irreversible body alterations. One prominent figure, Allora Ziva, charges $79 monthly for a 90-day transformation program.
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