![]() ![]() Registration on the Miss Bimbo site is free but it makes money by charging ?1.50 (about $3.00) per text message to buy "dollars" to spend on the characters. On Monday it emerged that increasing numbers of British teenagers were undergoing breast enlargement surgery. Its introduction came as research showed that British children as young as 6 were developing acute eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. He moved to Tooting, South London, recently and with a 30-year-old businessman called Chris Evans set up Ouza Ltd to promote the Web site in Britain. The Miss Bimbo site was set up by Nicholas Jacquart, a French entrepreneur. Susan Ringwood, the chief executive of Beat, a Norwich, England-based organization that supports those suffering from eating disorders, said that the Web site 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 Web site sparked controversy when it was introduced in France last year, where it attracted 1.2 million players.ĭee Dawson, the medical director of the Rhodes Farm Clinic in north London, which treats girls aged from 8 to 18 who suffer from eating disorders, said: "This is as lethal as pro-anorexia Web sites. 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."Ĭompeting against other children, they earn "bimbo dollars" to buy plastic surgery, diet pills, facelifts, lingerie and fashionable nightclub outfits. In the month since it opened the site, which is aimed at girls aged from 9 to 16, has attracted 200,000 members. Health-care professionals, a parents' group and an organization representing people suffering from anorexia and bulimia criticized the Web site 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. I would rather my daughter learned that brains are more important than looks.A Web site 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 British parents' groups and health-care experts Monday. "It sends out all the wrong messages about what it takes to get ahead. "I would not want my daughter playing a game like this," said one concerned parent. ![]() ![]() Nearly 250,000 players have registered on the Miss Bimbo site in the UK, and 1.2 million youngsters play the game in France where it originated. "A lot of children will get caught up with the extremely damaging and appalling messages." "This is as lethal as pro-anorexia websites," Dee Dawson, medical director at Rhodes Farm Clinic, which treats girls aged from eight to 18 who suffer eating disorders, told The Times. Groups working with vulnerable children have expressed serious misgivings about the game. Players compete in beauty contests and send text messages to the site to earn currency in the game, which is then used to pay for lingerie, diet pills, breast enhancement and facelifts. The Miss Bimbo game is aimed at nine to 16 year-olds and gives players a virtual avatar that competes against other players to "become the most famous, beautiful, sought after bimbo across the globe". ![]()
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