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After the Daily Mail ran a story about Ioana Spangenberg, an 84 lb. model with a 20-inch waist (which becomes even smaller when she wears her corset) I naturally watched a YouTube clip of her impossible Barbie-Doll-come-to-life proportions in motion and couldn't help but wonder, "What the fuck does she even model?" I mean, no designer's clothes would fit her figure. Then I discovered the website that released her video — Skinnyfans.com (link NSFW) — and realized she doesn't need clothes. Because it's porn. More »
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No news outlet offers more thorough coverage of the issues than Fox News. Rather than just telling people there's a problem with weight scrutiny in the media, yesterday they showed them by running an interview with Growing Pains actress Tracey Gold about her struggle with anorexia directly above a slideshow titled, "Pregnant Or Burrito Grande?" on the entertainment section of the network's website. More »
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Here are some plates that say, respectively, "Big mistake," and "It's hard to be around you when you eat like this / Did you really need that second helping? / Please stop eating, we're worried about you / For the love of God, stop eating." Perfect for your next concern-trolling dinner party! More »
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Today there are even more depressing statistics about children and eating disorders. According to statistics released by British hospitals, more than 2,100 children were treated for eating disorders before they turned sixteen, including 98 five to seven-year-olds. Experts are blaming celebrity culture for celebrating extreme thinness, but one hospital says the media has nothing to do with it. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5826791&view=rss&microfeed=true Kjerstin Gruys discusses her mission to spend 365 days avoiding the mirror (she's about 1/3 the way through) and her conflicted feelings on dieting while feminist: More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5821419&view=rss&microfeed=true New research suggests that the reason anorexia has been so difficult to treat is because the medical community has approached the disease as a mental illness rather than a physical one. More »
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When Hamilton College announced its first-ever National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, student and anorexia survivor Galia Slayen created a life-sized Barbie that was recreated based on the doll's measurements. More »
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On Nov. 17, 2010, anorexia nervosa claimed the life of 28-year-old French model Isabelle Caro, who had spent the last years of her life publicizing the horrors of the disease. Her mother, devastated by grief and guilt, committed suicide several weeks later. In 2007, Caro had appeared in "No Anorexia," an ad campaign by provocative fashion photographer Oliviero Toscani, shown above on a billboard in Rome. The images of her naked, grotesquely emaciated body, shocked and revolted. The campaign, intended to disassociate unhealthy thinness with connotations of glamour, sparked controversy, in part because some pro-anorexia and -bulimia websites used its ads as "thinspiration" (collections of images or videos of slim to skeletal women used by those suffering from eating disorders for weight-loss motivation). Despite her commitment to heightening awareness of anorexia, Caro could not escape its demons. More »
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Italian Vogue editor Franca Sozzani says she initially blamed Facebook for furthering the pro-anorexia movement, but then she did some "research" and found pro-anorexia websites and blogs (many of which, I would wager, use Vogue images as motivation). More »
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In the wake of years of low-fat and non-fat diet news and advertising, we're living in a culture that has oversimplified the complex equations of nutrition into fat=bad. As Harriet Brown writes for Psychology today: More »
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A new study of adolescent eating disorders in the U.S. finds that they are far more prevalent than previously believed, and that the gender gap between male and female adolescents was far smaller than previously found. The study has the largest sample size of any previous study of its kind, and is the first population-based study to include the full adolescent age range — over 10,000 teens aged 13 to 18. More »
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We already knew that those suffering from eating disorders had distorted body images, but apparently that manifests itself literally. When researchers asked women to draw themselves, they found that those suffering from anorexia or bulimia tended to draw themselves with different characteristics: no feet, larger mouths and thighs, and necks that were either larger, disconnected or missing. This could be a useful tool in diagnosing those women who are at risk for ED. More »
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Facebook, TV, even education — recently it seems like almost everything kids and their families do increases the risk of eating disorders. Herewith, a tour of some of the things that reportedly contribute to ED — and what we may be able to learn from them. More »
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Another day, another story about something bad Facebook does to kids. Today's finding: it may contribute to eating disorders. More »
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On Monday, Crystal Renn was a guest on Plus Model Radio, and she talked about her anorexia, her recovery, and her decision to become a plus-size model. Although: A new Ford model card states that Renn is a size 2. More »
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Marie Caro, mother of the late "ambassador for anorexia," Isabelle Caro (pictured at left), has killed herself. More »
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Kenneth Tong is a former British reality TV star who became infamous — and got a shit-ton of Twitter followers — when he started tweeting things like "Hunger hurts but starving works" and dieters can "never start too young." More »
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In 2007, French model Isabelle Caro famously posed for an anti-anorexia billboard plastered in Milan during fashion week. Today, various media outlets are reporting that Caro has died. More »
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For months now, we've gotten tips from readers about an alleged Photoshop of Horrors — except it seems that model Allie Crandell actually looks as pictured. Recently, fashion e-commerce site Revolve took the unusual step of promising she'll gain weight. More »
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• Designer (and husband of Barneys creative director/fashion sage Simon Doonan) Jonathan Adler is selling a needlepoint pillow emblazoned with the pro-ana proverb "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels." Which, as Adler should know, is pretty much anorexia's catchphrase. [Racked]

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As hospitalizations for eating disorders increase, so does the price of treatment. Some programs now cost around $30,000 a month. A month! That's enough to buy a car, or your first year of law school (state school only). More »
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One man, two sex changes, about a million gender stereotypes — welcome, friends, to the prejudice-ridden world of millionaire Charles Kane. More »
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Yesterday on Oprah, Portia de Rossi discussed her battles with anorexia and bulimia that climaxed while starring on Ally McBeal with other exceedingly thin actresses. However, she didn't acknowledge the effect the casts' unspoken competitive dieting had on female viewers. More »
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The editor-in-chief of Marie Claire has responded to the controversy over a blog post on their site entitled, "Should Fatties Get a Room? (Even on TV?)" by saying... almost nothing at all. Meanwhile, author Maura Kelly has apologized. More »
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This weekend, girls ages 14-22 will talk sexualization versus healthy sexuality — including Aleah Starr, an eating disorder survivor whose Projection project pushes back messages projected on girls' (and guys') bodies. Here, some arresting images from past efforts. More »
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It's the age-old dilemma: on the one hand, this Israeli ad for nonprofit Beitech wants to promote anorexia awareness. On the other, they really just wanna do the one-pallbearer-because-the-coffin's-so-light cheap sight-gag. This way, everyone loses! More »
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Earlier today, we received a press release about E!s new eating disorder show, the charmingly-titled What's Eating You? The show's producers claim that the six-part series is going to shed light on eating disorders. But I have my doubts. More »
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Harriet Brown's Brave Girl Eating tells the story of the family-based therapy that helped her daughter out of anorexia. We spoke to Brown about why such therapy isn't more widespread, and about how her daughter's illness affected their whole family. More »
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It took several rounds of blogger outrage, but Pretzel Crisps is finally breaking from its intentional denseness about using pro-anorexic slogans as advertising, and will take down all the offending ads. Let's recap. More »
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If you thought the saga of the thinspiration Pretzel Crisps ad ended when the company agreed to take down the offending ads, you were wrong. Because it turns out the company is construing its promise rather... narrowly. More »
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Pretzel Crisps tells Stephanie Marcus, "Based on the feedback received from you and other bloggers, we are switching directions with our ad campaign and will be taking the ‘You can never be too thin' ads down." Smart move! More »
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Here's an act of civic protest we can get behind: emblazoning the "you can never be too thin" message of a Pretzel Crisps ad with information about risks of anorexia, and the names and faces of some of its casualties. More »
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An anonymous fashion-industry insider was shocked when she found that something from her column — which she'd intended as a call-out of her colleagues' unhealthy attitude towards food — showed up as a tip on a pro-ana website. More »
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Following Perez Hilton's lead, Urban Outfitters has pulled its "Eat Less" shirt from its website. Those who still want to dress like assholes, however, can find the tee in stores. [Huffington Post] More »
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Perez Hilton says he didn't know "Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels" was a pro-ana slogan, and that he's pulled the shirts because he "didn't want to encourage anyone to possibly be anorexic." Baby steps, we guess. [CocoPerez] More »
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A new study indicates that the brain shrinkage experienced by anorexic patients is actually reversible. Much of the gray matter lost while starving returns within weeks of beginning to eat normally. Scientists are unsure whether this effects cognition. [LiveScience] More »
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Perhaps inspired by the success of shows like Intervention and Hoarders, Oprah Winfrey's OWN network, which debuts in January, has commissioned a rehab series of its own, which will revolve around patients in an eating disorder facility. Oh, dear. More »
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Sue Blackmore told her daughter Emily Troscianko, "your anorexia is not welcome at our new house." What to make of this kind of parenting? More »
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Today in a Daily Mail editorial, a mother whose daughter died of anorexia argues that photos of "twiglet" celebrities like Nicole Richie should run with a health warning in magazines. But how will editors determine which actresses are too thin? More »
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Today a Times reader asked Dr. Drew Pinsky, "Why do we not treat 'too little' sex as a disease or give it the same prominence as sexual addiction?" But Pinsky's subsequent explanation of "sexual anorexia" left some commenters cold. More »
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