# @wild_history_uk on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DbLFo20I3zl
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/68463409-wild-history-uk-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/5795b06096.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-07-24T11:04:21.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Wild History Shocking Stories From the Past (@wild_history_uk) — https://gondola.cc/wild_history_uk

## Caption

Early Victorian Britain didn’t fear tuberculosis — some women tried to look like they had it. Pale skin, flushed cheeks, a wasting figure: the disease became the beauty ideal, and the sicker a woman became, the more beautiful she was considered.

Disease, or the era’s cruellest beauty standard?

#BritishHistory #UKHistory #VictorianHistory

## Stats

- **Views:** 1,634
- **Likes:** 32
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- **Comments:** 1

## Tags

victorianhistory, britishhistory, ukhistory

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