I wasn’t surprised that 22% of the young women in this survey wanted to be a size zero (UK size 4); honestly, I’m surprised that this number wasn’t higher.  However, I was surprised that women thought that size zero women were actually larger in size.  So basically, our eyes have become so accustomed to images of size zero women that we think they are more like a size 6 or 8.

More than one in five women (22%) aged 18 to 24 want to be size zero, according to a survey.

A body image poll also found that women struggled to identify a size zero model from a line-up of six differently-sized women, with only 3% getting it right.

Three-quarters (75%) of more than 1,200 women surveyed said the size zero model was a size 8 to 12 [US 4 to 8].