{"id":18697,"date":"2013-04-11T20:40:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T20:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=18697"},"modified":"2013-04-11T20:41:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T20:41:57","slug":"the-thigh-gap-fad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=18697","title":{"rendered":"The Thigh Gap Fad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18699\" title=\"The thigh gap\" src=\"http:\/\/alexsuze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/the-thigh-gap-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The thigh gap\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/the-thigh-gap-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/the-thigh-gap.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I was introduced to the latest fad for the female population via all those images of skinny models on cat walks.\u00a0 It\u2019s the \u201cthigh gap\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that there is an ever growing population of women who want to be able to stand with both knees touching but a gap up at the top of their legs which you can push your hand between.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently there are several pages relating to craze on FaceBook.\u00a0 I won\u2019t name any here as I not writing this to promote the practice I\u2019m about to talk about.<\/p>\n<p>Yes I did say practice.\u00a0 Because now you don\u2019t have to starve yourself as the pages are encouraging girls to do, instead you can buy the look.<\/p>\n<p>As the woman on this morning\u2019s Daybreak program went on to explain the procedure sounds very much like liposuction of the thighs.<\/p>\n<p>The surgeon injects the tissue to be removed with a saline solution to break down the fat deposits.\u00a0 Then they make an incision inside the inner thigh and a couple under the buttock where they insert their equipment which sucks out the fat.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say in the images following the operation she looked like she had been kicked on the inner thigh by a bull.\u00a0 The results were best described as strange.\u00a0 Yes she had a streamlined thigh with no sign of body fat on the inside but her outer thigh and hips were by contrast at odds with this.<\/p>\n<p>To me that gap looks like you have something wrong with you, either malnutrition or some sort of dietary deficiency like rickets that causes bow legs.\u00a0 Not a look which women should want to emulate.<\/p>\n<p>The woman on this morning\u2019s program said she liked the fact that her skinny jeans looked straighter now she\u2019s had it done.\u00a0 Hmmm.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was introduced to the latest fad for the female population via all those images of skinny models on cat walks.\u00a0 It\u2019s the \u201cthigh gap\u201d. It seems that there is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=18697\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[2206,3997,3996,3995],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18697"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18702,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18697\/revisions\/18702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}