WHEN Mr Fauzi Rassull decided he wanted to be stick-thin for beauty's sake, he got flak from his family and friends.

They worried that the 20-year-old was too thin and pestered him to see a doctor for his eating disorder.

Feeling misunderstood, he set up a group on social networking website Friendster called 'The thinspo Club' and one on Facebook called 'Get thin or die trying' to find more like-minded people.

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