First transmitted on Channel 4 in April 2007

What is it that feeds the female obsession regarding body image, weight and dieting? Superskinny Me: The Race to Size Double Zero follows two journalists – Kate Spicer and Louise Burke – as they go on a no-holds-barred journey into the world of extreme dieting, exposing the dangers to both mind and body.

The film looks beyond the glossy magazines and Hollywood's 'lolly-pop' starlets to issue a life-size health warning about the latest fads and crash diets and expose their physical and emotional fall-outs.

Supervised by a specialist medical team, Kate and Louise embark on this gruelling weight-loss experiment that stretches them to their physical and emotional limits and helps them understand why modern women obsess about being thin, their weight and food. However, the film has unexpected results as it is not the physical side effects that come under the most scrutiny. Relationships reach breaking point, functioning in their normal daily lives becomes almost impossible and emotions run away. Ultimately, it becomes a test for the mind as one of the journalists is forced to quit.

Are we obsessed by being slim? Do superskinny models give the wrong image?

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