The Miss Bimbo site was set up by Nicholas Jacquart, a French entrepreneur. Susan Ringwood, the chief executive of Beat, an organisation that supports those suffering eating disorders, said that the website could make girls believe that weight and body size manipulation were acceptable. A lot of children will get caught up with the extremely damaging and appalling messages.” The website sparked controversy when it was introduced in France, where it attracted 1.2 million players.ĭee Dawson, the medical director of Rhodes Farm Clinic, which treats girls aged from 8 to 18 who suffer eating disorders, said: “This is as lethal as pro-anorexia websites. Competing against other children they earn “bimbo dollars” to buy plastic surgery, diet pills, facelifts, lingerie and fashionable nightclub outfits. Players keep a constant watch on the weight, wardrobe, wealth and happiness of their character to create “the coolest, richest and most famous bimbo in the world”. In the month since it opened the site, which is aimed at girls aged from 9 to 16, has attracted 200,000 members. Healthcare professionals, a parents’ group and an organisation representing people suffering anorexia and bulimia criticised the website for sending a dangerous message to impressionable children. The Miss Bimbo internet game has attracted prepubescent girls who are told to buy their virtual characters breast enlargement surgery and to keep them “waif thin” with diet pills. */var sImageBrowserImagePath = '' var aArticleImages = new Array() var aImageDescriptions = new Array() var aImageEnlargeLink = new Array() var aImageEnlargePopupWidth = '500' var aImageEnlargePopupHeight = '500' var aImagePhotographer = new Array() var nSelectedArticleImage = 0 var aImageAltText= new Array() var i=0 aArticleImages = '/multimedia/archive/00307/bimbo-385_307897a.jpg' aImageDescriptions = '' aImagePhotographer = '' aImageAltText = 'Miss Bimbo' aImageEnlargeLink = '/multimedia/archive/00307/bimbo-385_307897a.jpg' i=i+1 įCreateImageBrowser(nSelectedArticleIma ge,'landscape',"/tol/")Ī website that encourages girls as young as 9 to embrace plastic surgery and extreme dieting in the search for the perfect figure was condemned as lethal by parents’ groups and healthcare experts yesterday. Used on article pages to rotate the images of a story. * Global variables that are used for "image browsing". The internet game, aimed at girls aged 9 to 16, gives users 'bimbo dollars' to buy lingerie, diet pills and nightclub outfits. Miss Bimbo website promotes extreme diets and surgery to 9-year-olds
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