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Outraged Aussies Say Miss Universe Contestant Is "Skin And Bones"
As Americans freak about the Miss California/gay marriage debacle, Australians are having their own beauty pageant controversy: many are complaining that a finalist in the Miss Universe contest is too thin and possibly malnourished. More »
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By MargaretComment by Her?: "It's a very common body type," Miller added. "In fact, I'm slender because I'm half Bulimedonian as well." 31 Responses | Other threads
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Anorexia May Be Caused By Fetal Brain Abnormality
In yet another important step for the treatment of eating disorders, scientists now believe they've pinpointed a brain abnormality that develops in the womb that contributes to the development of anorexia nervosa later in life. More »
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By hortenseComment by rosasparks looks like a Fraggle: Let's hope this can turn around how to treat anorexia. I still have a sinking feeling, however, that treating and researching... 14 Responses | Other threads
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weighty matters
Piling On Jessica Simpson: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies?
How long will stories about Jessica Simpson's "weight gain" stay in the news? Probably as long as news outlets and even Simpson's so-called "defenders" feign disgust with the story while simultaneously validating its premise. More »
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By PaigeComment by Hamsterpants: Also, I looked at that list - Rachel Hunter and Elisha Cuthbert are fat? WTF? 18 Responses | Other threads
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annals of anorexia
Why The Media Should Stop Treating Sick Women Like Celebrities
Vikki Hensley is 24-years-old and currently in the throes of an extremely terrible battle with anorexia. Yet instead of talking about her problems to a therapist, Hensley has shared her story with The Daily Mail. More »
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By hortenseComment by ceejeemcbeegee is not here: Her desperate need to return to a pre-pubescent state, where her body remains androgynous, is something many fellow anorexics are... 10 Responses | Other threads
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annals of anorexia
More Males — Young & Old — Falling Victim To Eating Disorders
Today's episode of Dr. Phil focused on "Body Obsessed Boys," and one 15-year-old, eating-disordered teen male in particular. More »
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By TracieComment by exelizabeth: If the people on Jezebel can't be sympathetic to a boy with an eating disorder, no wonder his parents don't... 33 Responses | Other threads
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anorexia
Indie Rock Boys Have Weight Issues Too
When discussing body dissatisfaction, women often argue that we have it much harder than men. However, in certain subcultures in which certain men reside, like indie rock, the Guardian argues, skinniness is heralded, and the overweight are mocked. According to the Guardian's Priya Elan, when Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill (at left) announced that he was anorexic, "It isn't a huge surprise…What is surprising is that he's admitted it. Maintaining a skinny frame is the elephant in the room of indie."
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By JessicaComment by hannapdx: The skinny men hipster thing in Portland is like an epidemic 51 Responses | Other threads
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facebook
Pro-Ana Groups Plague Facebook
The stereotype of those suffering from eating disorders is often that they're incredibly private, going to great lengths to hide their disordered behavior. But according to Newsweek, many teen anorexics are using Facebook to flaunt their extreme thinness. Dr. Steven Crawford, associate director of the Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt in Baltimore, tells Newsweek that these Facebook admissions are a form of rebellion: "It's almost like putting it in your face: I have an eating disorder. I am anorexic." The girls who are part of these online covens of disordered eating say they're simultaneously cries for help and a way to justify their behavior. More »
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By JessicaComment by NefariousNewt: It's so perverse. These girls/women have a disorder, a diagnosable malady, and yet they are sometimes "proud" of it. How... 20 Responses | Other threads
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midweek madness
This Week In Tabloids: Aniston & Mayer Have Sex; Anorexic Stars Without Makeup
If it's Wednesday afternoon, this must be Midweek Madness, your weekly tabloid roundup source. Crappy covers this week, folks: Skinny stars, stars without makeup, Trista announcing her pregnancy, Jenny McCarthy talking about autism, and those kids from High School Musical. But we took the time to mine the mags for nuggets of gold. Intern Margaret assists as we dip our pan in the latest issues of Us, OK!, Life & Style, In Touch and Star, after the jump.
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By DodaiComment by SisterMaryMartha: Chace Crawford likes underage girls, we have established this already. Remember after his divorce from Sophia Bush how he got... 14 Responses | Other threads
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90210
Tweenage Wasteland
"Everyone says television adds five or ten pounds, so if you're watching and someone looks like they haven't eaten in forever, what must they look like in person?" This is a quote from a Hollywood insider, in an Entertainment Weekly story about the skinny starlets on the new 90210. According to EW, "One report estimates that none of the stars weighs more than 110 pounds, and 90210 insiders quietly admit that they know there's a problem." The CW has been celebrating the fact that 90210 beats every other network on Tuesday nights in its target demographic: Females 12-34. What kind of message do super-slim starlets send to young viewers? [EW]
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By DodaiComment by Lymed: If only we could get the teens to watch Mad Men. 15 Responses | Other threads
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eating disorders
Do Not Forget This: Eating Disorders And The Long Road To Recovery
Last week, Dodai wrote about an upsetting article in the new issue of Teen Vogue, in which one reader quipped, "I can't help but look down on my friends when they give in to temptations like pizza or ice cream." And as someone who struggled with an eating disorder for over five years, I can tell you this: I can't help but feel sorry for people who make statements like that.
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By hortenseComment by Penny: I'm actually curious, Hortense, if you find reading your old journals triggering in any way? I've had to stop,... 4 Responses | Other threads
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annals of anorexia
One in five men are extremely unhappy with their body image, and the number of men with anorexia or bulimia is on the rise, according to Dr. John Morgan, a leading British eating disorder specialist. Men make up 15 percent of eating disorder sufferers in official estimates, but the number doesn't take into account men who compulsively exercise because the definition of illness focuses on women. Morgan says media images of male beauty, slim but muscular guys with six-pack abs and big arms, are part of the problem. "It's completely unhealthy, and to achieve that sort of shape you've got to be either working out for hours in a gym, making yourself sick, or taking certain kinds of illegal drugs." [BBC]
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By MargaretComment by Cosette: @LoveNoelG: I think it does a disservice to all those who have or do struggle from eating disorders to minimize... 21 Responses | Other threads
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teen vogue
Shun Your Friends & Learn A Cool New Eating Disorder In Teen Vogue!
The October "Young Hollywood" issue of Teen Vogue has loads of stars inside — eyebrow-wielding coverboy Zac Efron, Leighton Meester, Kat Dennings, etc. But if you're paging through the back of the magazine, you'll find a couple of giant, extremely disturbing diet-related quotes, which ultimately lead to a story about a "new" eating disorder. The first pull quote: More »
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By DodaiComment by PilgrimSoul: I don't really eat processed foods either, except for my good friends M and M but I'm not quite orthorexic;... 29 Responses | Other threads
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thin is (always) in
You Say You Want A (Fashion) Revolution? First You Need A Revolutionary
"Much — so very much — has been written about the fashion world's repulsive obsession with thinness," writes Hadley Freeman in today's Guardian. "But the predictable truth is that when it comes to skinny models, nothing has changed. Nothing. The belief in the industry remains that thinness is symbolic of wealth and aspiration. Thus the more luxurious the label, the thinner the models." Except the industry may finally have a "revolutionary" in its midst. Someone who is finally willing to talk about the thin fetish. It's none other than the "waif" herself, Miss Kate Moss. In the next issue of Interview magazine where, by the by, she appears mostly nude, Kate Moss admits she was starving most of the time she was doing runway and she never wanted to be so thin.
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By DodaiComment by Triphena: "Hilariously, the journalist, confirming all cliches about the fashion press, interrupts: 'I didn't think you were all that skinny.'" You...don't think... 8 Responses | Other threads
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Pregorexia
Mike And Juliet Make Meme Out Of One Eating-Disordered Mom
The Morning Show With Mike and Juliet (think of them as the poor man's Regis and Kelly) had a special segment this morning about "pregorexia," or having anorexia while being pregnant. The pair sat down with Brie Breivik, a woman with a history of anorexia who became pregnant, to illustrate the condition (one's a trend!) and decided to bombard her with idiotic questions. After Brie explained the psychological elements of eating disorders to Juliet, and talked about how the desire to eat is trumped by the desire to control, Mike asked her why she didn't have cravings for "pickles!" and other food. Well, Mike, maybe she didn't have psychological cravings for weird food because she had no psychological cravings for any food. That's called an eating disorder! And that is why she is on your show. Clip above.
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By MariaComment by SindhuJalookhi: Thanks for the great entry on pregorexia. It seems like everyday more and more “rexia” terms are popping up. The... more » | Other threads
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thin is (always) in
Of All The "Rexics" You Can Be, Anorexic Is Still The Worst
Today in the Guardian, writer Laura Barton explores the English lexicon's obsession with the "rexic." Barton notes that there used to be one kind of rexic: Anorexic. A serious condition, to be sure. But something changed. A familiarity with the term bred new monikers: Manorexics, pregorexics, brideorexics, drunkorexics, wannarexics. "This week," Barton writes, "Grazia kindly added 'nearlyrexics' to the pile — a term to describe all the women it deems to be nearly anorexic, but not quite." It's reminiscent of the episode of The Simpsons, in which Homer cries, "I'm a rageoholic! I'm addicted to rageohol." Except: It's not funny. Because eating disorders are not funny. And even if you survive one, you might (as Anthea Rowan writes for the Times of London) worry about passing it on to your kids.
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By DodaiComment by foodandshoes: @clamatohead: People in the "ghetto," as you so kindly put it, are just as susceptible to developing disordered eating, but... 1 Responses | Other threads
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annals of anorexia
Guys With Body Issues Can Be A Little Annoying
Listen, I understand that there are men out there with body image issues and eating disorders, and that it's a real problem. But for some reason, I don't have much patience for it. I think maybe I'm bitter because I had an ex-BF who was always freaking out about the way he looked and he would say stuff like, "I'm not comfortable in my own body. You wouldn't understand." And I'd be like, "What!? I'm a woman. You couldn't understand!" When MTV aired True Life: I Can't Stay Thin, about yo-yo dieters who always put the weight back on, I really related to the topic. But the story of Adam — a young man who was formerly obese, then quit his job, quit school, and moved away from the people he knew so he could focus on his disordered eating — annoyed me all over again. I don't know, maybe I just feel a little ownership over this stuff, since women are usually the ones with impossible expectations to live up to. Clip above.
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By TracieComment by RenataNekrologist: My uncle, who's in his 60s, is now completely disabled and facing death due to his anorexia. I completely understand... 1 Responses | Other threads
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weighty matters
How Many Days Of Master Cleanse Would It Take You To Reach Your Driver's License Weight?
Lying about your weight (or height, if you're a dude) to the Department of Motor Vehicles is the type of perjury everyone commits, even in countries with much less sedentary and high-fructose corn syrup centric lifestyles, but a Washington Post piece on the subject (spoiler alert: the ending is irritating) brings up some interesting points about the practice, like how people tend to lose weight in the process of becoming corpses authorities have to identify using their drivers license descriptions. I always put my weight three pounds heavier than Janice Dickinson's, although I have no idea whether that is true and, oh cripes, no scale with which to test it. [Washington Post] -
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Intervention: Dying To Live Up To The Image Of A Twin
We often hear about the clear-cut, negative influences that contribute to eating disorders, but rarely hear about the more complex influences that affect the self-image of those who suffer from such diseases. Meet Emily, who was featured on a recent episode of Intervention. Emily had a considerable amount of trauma in her life (her parents' divorce, surviving an assault), but an issue that kept returning over and over was that she never felt like she measured up to her successful identical twin sister, Tiffany. Her way of controlling her life, and creating an individual identity away from Tiffany, was to starve herself. Clip above.
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By TracieComment by Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: @bria: I second this; I automatically had that compulsion to rub my spine and ribs to feel if they were... more » | Other threads
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the jezebel diet
4 Ways To Get Your Kids To Eat Healthy Without Giving Them Eating Disorders
Yesterday's post equating Barack Obama embarrassing his daughter Malia with his firm handshakes of her ten-year-old peers with my dad's own litany of mortifyingly weird habits alerted me to another unexploited parallel between my parents and the Obamas: Michelle Obama's control over Malia's caloric intake as told to (and invariably overemphasized in) a recent issue of US Weekly. Now, I don't have the issue, but the blogs explain that Michelle used to save time by sending the kids to school with Lunchables, but she cut back on the processed foods when Malia's pediatrician warned her she was "tipping the scale." Now, I'm only taking on this topic because we clearly don't cover body issues enough on this site, but…here we go: it is summer, the season of funnel cake and deep-dish lethargy, and I think the moms of this world need to feel safe tempering kids' voracious high-fructose corn syrup appetites without worrying their subtle nods toward the whole-grain fiber-rich persuasions will later manifest themselves as Scars For Life. As a Veteran of Eating Disorders that had absolutely Nothing To Do With My Mom, I think I'm uniquely qualified to offer some advice.
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By MoeComment by miss anthrope: Anyone bothered by WW's "hyprocrisy" doesn't have to drive through rush hour traffic. She makes the trip home tolerable and... more » | Other threads
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Boy Anorexic Sheds Light On Girl Anorexics
The idea of male anorexics is difficult for many people to wrap their heads around, since they're not heard from -—or talked about — very often. But the documentary I'm a Boy Anorexic, which aired recently on BBC America, follows the story of a few of them. Interestingly, the film also illuminates the issue as it pertains to girls. Listening to the boys' stories on what triggered their anorexia, it's clear that many of their triggers are those found in girls: They were teased by kids in school for being chubby, they wanted to emulate celebrity heroes, etc. The fact that less boys suffer from this is merely evidence that this disease isn't gender specific, but the amount of societal pressures are.
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By TracieComment by ScarecrowinSD: @kooyulatrix: That certainly wasn't my intention. The only reason I listed those stats was to illustrate how thin my friend... more » | Other threads
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modelslips
Dear Models Of The World: Are We All Too Busy Starving Ourselves To Form A Union Already?
Modeling. I'll be honest: I didn't really give much of a shit about the plight of its willowy practitioners before I met Tatiana. Now, Tatiana's going to be okay: she's doing this to travel and learn and meet the sort of people you wouldn't meet performing the other types of slave labor to which educated young twentysomethings generally subject themselves, but the rest of them remind me of all those once-promising high school basketball players languishing in foreign club teams and living paycheck to paycheck in incredibly cramped quarters with nothing getting them up in the morning beyond the whole "Well, I've held out this long…" rationale. Which is to say, models are just like us. Except! In what other industry can your boss get away with telling an 108-pound cash cow like Coco Rocha: "We don't want you to be anorexic, we just want you to look it"? I mean, sure, it's one thing to "look" anorexic to me, an objective observer, but this is an industry, as we found out yesterday, in which the conventional wisdom holds that Karolina Kurkova is "fat"? Anyway, after last week's harrowing experience volunteering for the Plutocracy, Tatiana came up with some good ideas for reforming the business. We really do hope the agencies of the world take her advice!
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By MoeComment by YadonPeafowl: I don't see why some people on this string (ie. nodiva) are opposed to unionization because the model industry is... more » | Other threads
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self-help
John Prescott's Ugly Common Person's Guide To Coping With Eating Disorders
Remember that deputy Prime Minister who resigned two years ago with Tony Blair only to resurface a year and a half later with a memoir about his decades-long struggle with bulimia? The British press sure does! And while coverage of this confession has generally fallen into the category of "merciless mockfest", an interview in the latest British Esquire convinced me he was doing bulimics of the world a service. Because while writing about your eating disorder isn't really a British thing to do, John Prescott's method of dealing with his eating disorder is kind of hilariously British, starting with the way his wife caught wind of the problem: she noticed symptoms she'd learned about from Princess Di. Which is, of course, the grand irony: the kids all assume eating disorders are the path to looking like Di and Nicole Richie when, ha ha ha, Prescott pukes his food too! Herewith, John Prescott's Stiff Upper Esophagus Guide To To Coming To Terms With Your Puking Problem, culled from Esquire.
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Dying To Be Thin
Janell Smith was hospitalized for an eating disorder which she battled for months and was left at 68 pounds and in need of a feeding tube to sustain herself. After a month of treatment, Janell's father claims that her insurance company, Magellan, discharged her prematurely, which resulted in Janell committing suicide a few days after her release. Her death was nearly five years ago but her father's case against the insurance company is still continuing. The insurance company claims that Janell discharged herself after they had said they planned to review her insurance case, and that she showed no signs of suicidal tendencies. The claims against Magellan and the fact that many insurance companies do not cover treatment for eating disorders may reveal the lack of understanding of the seriousness of eating disorders. Is it any coincidence that a disease not taken seriously is also most prevalent in young women? [ABC News] -
consumption olympics
Teen Vogue Gives Summer Olympians A Sliiight Makeover
Although we were so very heartened to see Teen Vogue editor Amy Astley take the evil fashion industry to task for perpetuating unrealistic body ideals on the Today show, we admit we were skeptical! Just how was this new focus on health going to manifest itself in the pages of her theretofore anorex-positive magazine, hmmm? Now we know! Just in time to celebrate the Genocide Olympics, the July Teen Vogue is celebrating female athleticism in a 12-page fashion spread. (This is in stark contrast to its big sister Vogue, which only last month ran an entire "body issue" celebrating male athleticism by pairing male athletes with female…supermodels.) Such independence and spunk, that Teen Vogue! Catch the mag's take on fencing, beach volleyball, ping-pong, and leaning against a balance beam looking vaguely malnourished in a Berhard Willhelm cape and vintage Indian headdress,after the jump. See girls, you can be "athletic" without sacrificing your ACL. — or your BMI.
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By MoeComment by SweetFireintheStreet: i ♥ fencing. i took ages ago and want to start again. like you guys said, its so sexy nerdy! more » | Other threads
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Modeling Agency Will Incite Thinness If It Damn Well Chooses!
Despite recent half-assed attempts to impose healthier weight standards on the fashion industry, it seems some valiant holdouts just won't be dictated to! Australian writer Patty Huntington draws our attention to some of the truly alarming physiques on view in Elite's modeling profile - at last view, still the highlighted images on their site - making the point that "It’s difficult to fathom how anyone could look at these shots and believe they represent a terrific advertisement for the model, the agency and indeed, the fashion industry." Personally, it prompted me to reach for a donut. Subversive scare tactics, perhaps? [News.com.au]
