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This Answer to the Thigh Gap is Everything We Needed

It’s time for society’s obsession with the thigh gap to end, and this new trend on social media is making that happen. Women everywhere have flooded social media with a more accepting, more body-positive version of the thigh gap: #MermaidThighs. Rather than make people feel inadequate if their thighs touch, the trend associates a curvy figure with another huge obsession of this generation… mermaids. 


 

All I’m missing is my MERgarita. #mermaiding #mermaid #mermaidlife #mermaidfitness #finstagram #mermaidthighs

A photo posted by Elizabeth Narins (@ejnarins) on

 

#truth #effyourbeautystandards #mermaidthighs #bodypositive #lovetheskinyourein

A photo posted by Karen (@tiki_girl_karen_13) on

Considering everyone wants to be a mermaid nowadays, we’re honestly just surprised this trend didn’t catch on faster. But better late than never!

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Abby Piper

Notre Dame

Abby is a senior studying English, French and Journalism at the University of Notre Dame but remains obsessed with her hometown St. Louis. She loves running, water skiing, writing, watching Christmas movies all year long and The O.C.'s Seth Cohen.