Since the story hit the British media, MacVicar observes, the co-founders, working from their kitchen tables, have been inundated, and struggling to justify their choices. Says Susannah Walker, also 14, "I don't like the way it advertises how to be really thin and everything, because it 'sells' things like diet pills, and I don't agree with that." "I think it might influence younger people, people who are perhaps a bit insecure about themselves to start with," Ellie Thomson, 14, told MacVicar, "and it would make them almost see that as a role model or something." It's been live, in English, in England for two months and has attracted more than 200,000 registered users there - the majority over 18, but at least some of them young teens - and even one who's nine-years-old. The site originated in France a year ago and, its creator there says, has a million registered users but not a single complaint about content. "There are going to be many children who take this very, very seriously and think that to manipulate somebody's image like this is the norm." "I wouldn't want my patients or my children to be looking at material like this," says Dee Dawson, medical director of an anorexia clinic.
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