Parents of young girls desperate for a "slim thick" body say teenagers are risking their lives for the 'Instagrammable' figure.
Slender women seeking bigger bums and thighs - a look popularised by social media stars including Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner - are taking potentially dangerous appetite stimulants in order to gain weight.
Apetamin, which is manufactured and sold by the Indian pharmaceutical company TIL Healthcare, is a syrup containing cyproheptadine - a hepatotoxin to stimulate appetite - lysine and some vitamins.
The UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) announced this week it is now investigating the sale of the product, after a BBC documentary into the fad - Dangerous Curves: Get Thicc, Get Sick?.
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