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13 Awful Health Words and Phrases That Need to Go Away

Thigh Gap

(Source: hellogiggles.com)
(Source: hellogiggles.com)

We should all recoil at this one. If you haven’t had the pleasure of being introduced to this term, please allow me. This is where women (mostly) seek to have a gap between their thighs where the flesh does not touch. From body to body this is anatomically different, but there is no situation where this is a valuable metric for health. Some have gone as far as having liposuction to reduce the chance of the thighs touching. I can’t decide what less desirable, the act of trying to achieve this or the desire to do so. In either case, can we please not repeat this phrase?