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Worldwide, there’s an enormous pressure to stay thin. But one of the oddest, and perhaps saddest, quests for thinness lies on Hong Kong where the women have to do their best to stay thinner than the frail male body type. Hilariously tragic.

This glamorous Asian city is known for its mouth-watering dim sum. Its high fashion. And its 100-pound-and-under women.

Agatha Yau, a marketing executive, is one of these women. She has done many things over the years to stay trim: taken diet pills, eaten meals of boiled vegetables and practiced delaying gratification.

“Sometimes, I’ll look at the food and just smell it,” Yau, 22, says one morning as she has her breakfast — a skim caramel macchiato from Starbucks. “I think to myself that once I get married and have kids, I’ll be able to eat it” because there’ll be less pressure to diet.

“Guys here are so small and skinny,” she adds. “They need to feel masculine, and they don’t if you’re bigger than them.”

Extreme dieting spreads in Asia [USA Today]

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