Pressure to conform to conventional ideas about beauty is having dangerous consequences in China. Particularly among women, it is leading to increasing cases of eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia. A study from 2019 estimated more than 1.5 million Chinese were suffering from an eating disorder.

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