Remember 32-year-old Maria Kang? She's the fitness-obsessed mom who posted a picture of herself with her three kids and the caption "what's your excuse?" on Facebook. After a recent rant about how there is "unrelenting support" for people who are "borderline obese," she's been banned from Facebook. But she is not sorry for…
Maria Kang, the fitness blogger and mom who posted an "apology" for a photo of herself on Facebook only to have it go viral — it got 16 million views and counting — stopped by the Today show this morning.
If freelance writer/fitness blogger Maria Kang had simply posted a picture of herself, baring her abs, kneeling behind her three children, it would not have caused a stir. But that photo came with the caption: "What's your excuse?"
Over at Future Shipwreck, Graham Kolbeins has created a video — using footage from the first three seasons of ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars — titled "Food Horror."
If you'd asked me a week ago what the future of dieting would look like, I would've told you I think it could go one of two ways. Either we become a society that grows to accept people of different sizes or we're gonna start literally torturing fat people into becoming skinny. You know, for their own good.
Apparently, in a Behind the Music special airing on VH1 this Sunday, 34-year-old singer Nicole Scherzinger — of Eden's Crush, the Pussycat Dolls and X Factor — confesses that she spent years suffering from an eating disorder.
Every so often, a celebrity will "come out" about her past struggle with an eating disorder. These stars are almost always women, and they are almost always "better" by the time they make a public statement. They are also almost always slender. Just this week, Katie Couric admitted that she had "wrestled with bulimia all…
Only a decade or so ago, experts believed that eating disorders were largely a girls' disease. 95% of sufferers of anorexia and bulimia are female, said the common line. But now, some experts are warning that we've been overlooking a massive, heartbreaking problem: as many as 20 to 30% of people suffering from eating…
Yesterday, pop star and professional college art thesis Lady Gaga demonstrated to the internet how not to talk about dieting as a female celebrity when she pressed "submit" after typing the words "Just killed back to back spin classes. Eating a salad dreaming of a cheeseburger. #PopStarsDontEat #BornThisWay." I'm sure Our…
Today, popular microblogging social media site Pinterest posted updated terms of use to explicitly bar posting content that others may find emotionally distressing or that risks encouraging physical or mental illness. So does this mean that pro-anorexia "thinspo" boards will have to find a new home?
In Diane Keaton's memoir, Then Again, she writes that when she was 19, a Broadway director offered her a part in the Broadway musical Hair — on the condition she lose 10lbs. She developed an eating disorder. "I don't think it was called bulimia then," she tells People. "It was just this trick you could do. It's a horrible …
I am thirteen and at my first comic/sci-fi expo. I'd had no idea what to expect, and I'm stressed out. The place is packed, and everything seems to be anime and everything seems to cost money. It's the height of Dragonball-Z's popularity in New Zealand and there are Gokus competing in Kah-me-ha-me-ha competitions in…
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!
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…
A UK Channel 4 series called Lily Allen: From Riches To Rags focuses on Lily quitting touring and opening a clothing store with her sister. Lily, who miscarried six months into her pregnancy, says: "It was a really long battle — and I think that kind of thing changes a person." The singer also discusses her unhealthy…
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 …
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.
Another day, another story about something bad Facebook does to kids. Today's finding: it may contribute to eating disorders.
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).
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.
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.
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]
The New York Times Consults blog answers an odd question today — whether someone with an eating disorder will sometimes try to keep a spouse fat.
Lisa Hilton, an Oxford-educated writer, thinks we should all stop worrying and learn to love the size-zero model.
The American Psychiatric Association is reconsidering the category of Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, which is diagnosed more often than anorexia or bulimia. Now if only they could do something about judgment.
Tonight, Discovery Health will air the documentary I'm Pregnant And... I Have An Eating Disorder. In a preview from GMA, Beth Jones struggles to eat enough for her unborn child, even when doctors tell her the baby is too small.
The Los Angeles Times is taking a very interesting in-depth look at binge eating this weekend, asking a question that the American Psychiatric Association has yet to answer: is binge eating truly a psychiatric disorder?
New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni makes a living eating. So it's both disturbing and encouraging to learn, in this excerpt from his memoir Born Round that his early years were plagued with weight struggles, self-loathing and eating disorders.
Is Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson's young adult novel about anorexia and bulimia, a dangerous trigger for eating-disordered readers, a thoughtful examination of a terrible disease, or both? We read it to find out. [Spoilers follow.]
Depressing - but really fascinating - piece on the reported decrease in sexual function and libido apparently resulting from eating disorders. [Feministing via Fox]
