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Thinspo is a abbrievation for Thinspiration.
Thinspiration is two words put together to create a simular but different meaning. Thin and inspiration.

Thinspo is used by people suffering from eating disorders to help keep them inspired.

The idea behind thinspo is that it helps motivate and inspire you to lose weight and become or stay thin.

Thinspo is usually of photos of skinny or bony celebrities or models. It sometimes takes the forms of celebrities who have lost a great deal of weight.
Thinspo can be anything. Book quotes, song lyrics, films...
I look at thinspo of Mary-Kate everyday to make sure I don' binge.
thinspo by emoxlies March 3, 2007
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Abbreviation of Thinspiration.
Formed after the words 'thin' and 'inspiration', the thinspiration is the motivation obtained of certain kind of images and quotes to stay thin or lose weight.

It became popular in pro eating disorder sites, where the thinspiration consist of photos of extremely skinny girls and quotes that promote starvation.
But it has also a widely extended healthy meaning where the photos are of thin or fit girls, of low calories food, exercises and quotes that motivates to stay thin in a healthy way.
Those thinspo pictures are helping me to stay away from the fridge.

Her favorite thinspo quote is "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels"
thinspo by Astridrr August 25, 2012
Abbreviation for "thinsporation," aka pictures of bone-thin women that girls with ana/mia use to remind themselves of their goals to become thin.
Girl 1: My thinspo is this picture of Mary-Kate Olsen.
Girl 2: The Victoria's Secret models are my thinspo.
thinspo by notanorexic December 3, 2005
A inspiration for people who are mia (bulimic) or ana (anorexic). Some thinspo is: pictures of models, pictures of thin everyday girls aka real thinspo, and music.
I like real girl thinspo.
thinspo by Jamilyn January 4, 2008
The inspiration of being thin followed by eating disorders. It’s thin + inspiration into 1 word.
This girl is giving me a thinspo
Thinspo by 『n o e m i』 June 2, 2021

Reverse thinspo

What people with eating disorders use to look at to make themselves ‘discusted’ By a person who is very large and to look at the meals they dream of eating
I use her as reverse thinspo to make sure I never end up like that

thinspire 

To become inspired to be thin; usually by Lindsay Lohan and/or, but not limited to the Olsen Twins, Paris Hilton, Nicole Ritchie, or those girls from the OC.
After Monica saw those rib cages on the cover of Us Weekly, she was thinspired to go on Atkins (which btw, doesn't work).
thinspire by Mattkins September 1, 2005