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Girlguiding UK attacks airbrushed celebrities

Tom Morgan
Wednesday 04 August 2010 00:00 BST
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Airbrushed images of celebrities should be labelled in a bid to tackle "damaging and unrealistic pressures" on young women, Britain's biggest girls' group said today.

Girlguiding UK has launched a campaign urging the Government to introduce compulsory labelling on "touched-up" pictures in magazines, claiming half of 16 to 21-year-old girls have considered surgery to change their appearance and 42 per cent admit to watching what they eat.

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