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Focusing on the female submission to the cult of slenderness, this article argues that the slender body constitutes an example of the production of a culturally trained, docile body, a term used by Michel Foucault in describing a body subjected, used, transformed, and improved on behalf of social systems through disciplines and constant coercion. Then the May of Teck can be understood as a microcosm of the larger society that demands the constant regulation of female bodies for sociopolitical purposes. Foucault articulates that social institutions manipulate, shape, and train the operations of the body through exercising massive power over individuals' bodies in order to transform the active bodies into docile bodies obedient enough to serve the utilitarian goals of the society.