One of the Church of England's first female bishops is launching a campaign to tackle to negative body image.
Bishop of Gloucester Rachel Treweek has already visited a number of schools to talk to girls about the problem.
She said her experience as a teenager had inspired her to tackle the issue.
"I'm very aware that I did not fulfil what pretty girls are meant to be like," she told the Sunday Times.
"It's got worse since I was that age. I wasn't being bombarded by social media, I wasn't using a mobile phone or looking at the internet," she added.
The campaign will use #Liedentity and show photo shopped images in the hope of allowing teenagers to accept themselves for who they are.
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Article by Antony Bushfield
Antony Bushfield is a multimedia journalist for Premier.
