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 "Anorexics tend to be a competitive bunch," says Jenn Berman, a Beverly Hills-based therapist who daily sees the eating disorders that take hold arise in the driven athletes and actresses she treats. "So reading that someone lost X amount of pounds just ups their activities. It's one of the reasons that group therapy isn't recommended. Anorexics try to outdo each other -- in illness, not in success." ... |
And without intervention, Berman notes, anorexia has the highest fatality rate in the DSM-IV, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Assn.
That's what these [pro-anorexia] sites often gloss over, stresses Berman. "People die from this disease," she says. "They die." [from article: "Nurturing an Anorexia Obsession - 'Pro-ana' Web sites tout the eating disorder as a choice, not an illness, to the horror of experts" by Lynell George, LA Times, Feb. 12, 2002] website: DoctorJenn |
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| It started with a diet. I was a cheerleader and wanted to look good in my uniform. And it just got way out of control. I would lose five pounds, and it wasn't good enough. Then I'd lose five more, and it still wasn't good enough. To torture myself, I would hang pictures of models on my walls and say, 'Until I can see the bones I see on her, I'm not thin enough.'
My mom saw the pictures, but she never questioned it. In fact, when I started losing weight, she told me how good I looked, and that was like, Wow, OK. If I look good now, I should lose more. The thinner I got, the happier I felt. It becomes illogical. You're sixty pounds, and you think you're still fat. I passed out in high school because my blood sugar levels were (so low). But it was euphoric. Every day, if I wasn't a pound lighter, I would beat myself up. My mom started yelling at me all the time to make me eat. The more she tried to make me eat, the more I would say, "No way," because I wasn't going to let anyone make me do anything. - Erin, age 24
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| When I started developing breasts, I was told that soon I would not be able to act anymore, since it was only children or adults who got parts. I had such anger! I really liked acting. It was an escape. It was fun. It was a huge part of my identity. It's what I was good at.
So I tried to hide my breasts because I knew they would keep me from getting parts. [Seeing a TV show about anorexia:] I noticed there was a benefit to be had with anorexia. My breasts would go away. But what anorexia did was make me vulnerable to all these dark feelings within me. While I was anorexic for less than two years, it does break you down so much, just like an addiction, that you ultimately become much more vulnerable to the negative feelings you have. They are the real cause of your fascination with bizarre behavior and self-destruction in the first place. My anorexia was about these underlying causes.*********Christina Ricci***[Parade, June 23 2002] |
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Plus-sized model Mia Tyler [right] has paid tribute to her movie star sister Liv for promoting a healthy body image for women.
Catwalk queen Mia, who was part of a provocative plus-sized lingerie show in New York last week, believes that her Liv and their father, "pot-bellied" Aerosmith rocker Steven Tyler, have helped her feel confident and sexy. She says, "I've never seen myself as the model type. As a kid I was always chubby. We're a family of big eaters, and if you look at my older sister, Liv, you'll see that she's not super-skinny either - she is totally happy she has a womanly shape, which is a rarity among movie stars. "And although my dad has a fast metabolism when he is touring and running around on stage he has a pot belly too, when he's not working. My family never pressurized me to be skinny - we're very tolerant and supportive of each other.".. [imdb.com Feb 17 2003] |
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 ****Jamie-Lynn
Sigler |
Jamie-Lynn
Sigler is a spokesperson for :
HEED Helping to End Eating Disorders |
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Jamie-Lynn had faced her [exercise bulimia], she was eager to be well.
Over the next five months, with the help of a psychotherapist and a nutritionist,
she worked toward achieving a more moderate, healthy lifestyle -- eating
more, exercising less, thinking less about both, and most important, regaining
confidence in herself. ...
"I love going out with my friends for dinner," she says. "It's the best way to feel like a normal kid. Friends and I recently went out to celebrate finishing my album, and we had lots of food. ... "It was a time I can remember with a smile, and not an instance whenI was too wrapped up in counting calories to enjoy it." ... "But what I went through was traumatic enough and enough of a learning experience that I could never fall so deeply again. "I'm so much happier now." from article "Dieting to Death" - Rosie magazine, Nov. 2001 |
"Everybody knows me as Meadow Soprano, but there's a real girl behind that character," announces Sigler at the start of her chatty memoir. While the book will appeal to teen fans of HBO's The Sopranos, aspiring actors will also appreciate her direct discussion of what it takes to succeed in show business. A perfectionist, Sigler as a youngster felt she never lived up to her self-imposed high expectations and notes, "With my self-image so fragile, the door was wide open for problems to develop. My eating disorder just snuck up on me, but once it was there, it was like Alice falling down the white rabbit's hole." She discusses behavior that resulted in a 30-pound weight loss in seven months, as well as the steps she took to control her disorder. She also fills many pages with particulars about The Sopranos, describing how she landed her role, her relationships with the other actors... An afterword presents information on identifying and addressing eating disorders. [Amazon.com summary]
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"Eating" by Judy Dater
more of Dater's work on photography: page 2
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[How
do you think the media's obsession Jennifer Aniston : I think they affect it by putting it out there. It starts with the human being and their obsession, and the media just feeds on it.. The hardest thing to get is an understanding of who you are and what you're trying to achieve. You have to realize that the media isn't real, it's fantasy... it's created. The obsessions starts within unfortunately and the media feeds into it. |
Detach
yourself -- put down the magazines. That's what I've done. ... I did it
when I was a teenager and when I was in my 20's.
[You
are a spokeswoman for young teens but yet you Jennifer Aniston: First of all, I'd like to say that I don't feel I'm a "spokesperson" for young teens. That's too much responsibility. I feel equal to all young teens and women in the quest for truth about the world and what it's all about. Would I be as fit if I wasn't on TV... I don't know, since I am. All I know is that being fit makes me feel very good. I sleep better and I feel better about myself. from Jennifer Aniston chat on Voxxy.com - 2/6/01 |
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Charlotte Church has admitted she loves her bum after being named Rear
Of The Year.
The 16-year-old says she is very flattered, but thinks the award is very silly. The singer says her ideal bottom is that of Jennifer Lopez. She added she has been on a health drive, swimming and playing squash, to keep herself in shape. She said: "It's hard, and it hurts, but it's worth it. I'm not skinny. You get a lot of celebrities that are skinny and I think a lot of eating disorders and anorexia start from that. I'm kind of a healthy weight. "I do love my bum. It's not skinny, it's not flat but I can deal with that. I like it regardless of what anyone else thinks. I just think that because I'm 16 I'm allowed to get awards like this now - when I was 15 it would have been seen as sick." Health psychologist Dr David Lewis said that giving the award to a 16-year-old would send out a positive message to teenagers to look after their bodies and watch their weight. He said: "It's very important for young people to recognise the importance of a good shape and a good physique, not necessarily for sexual reasons but for reasons of good health." [story and photo: ananova.com May 1, 2002] |
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Kate Winslet
has slammed British magazine GQ after it went too far by airbrushing out
her curves after a sexy photo shoot. The magazine's editor Dylan Jones
has confessed to giving the Titanic actress thinner legs and smaller breasts
- and Winslet, who has been criticized for allowing the reworking to occur,
concedes that the publication went too far.
She says, "The re-touching is excessive. I don't look like that and I don't desire to look like that. I haven't suddenly lost 30 pounds. I'm exactly the same as when I went to the Oscars last March." Winslet has previously defended women's rights to look as they like. She says, "This is me. Like it or lump it. I had to starve myself for Titanic and it just wasn't me. "I'm not a twig and I refuse to be one. I'm happy with the way I am. I'm not like American film stars. I'm naturally curvy." ... [imdb.com Jan 13 2003] photos from British GQ site : as with most magazine images, it is not known whether - or how much - these images have been digitally altered |
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ATLANTA (AP) February 19, 2001 - Jane Fonda said she learned recently that "good enough is good enough" and had overcome a quarter-century battle with anorexia and bulimia. "For 25 years, I could never put a forkful in my mouth without feeling fear, without feeling scared," Fonda said at a fund-raising dinner Saturday for the Eating Disorders Education Network.
Fonda.. served as auctioneer and celebrity guest for the dinner. "This feels like one of those AA meetings ... But instead it's `I'm Jane Fonda and I've been bulimic and anorexic for 25 years of my life,"' she said. "I'm 63 years old and only in the last two years have I learned that good enough is good enough."
> related article:** Perfectly Skinny by Ephrat Livni - Study Confirms Perfectionism Is a Strong Trait of Anorexics
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"Eating disorders are glamorised in ways that other mental illnesses aren't," says Traci Mann, PhD, a post-doctoral fellow at UCLA who studied the effectiveness of an eating disorder prevention program. "People don't say, I wish I could be schizophrenic for three months. I want to be anorexic for three months should sound as ridiculous as that, but it doesn't." The picture that many have of eating disorders, says Mann, is of a behaviour that is just slightly beyond the norm, that makes you thin, and can be recovered from at will.
Mann looked at a college program run by recovered anorexics and bulimics. She found that participants, far from being deterred, reported more disordered eating after the presentations.
"My guess," she says, "is that speakers who were poised, attractive and self-assured, somehow made eating disorders look like a worthwhile risk - you'd have a bad few months but afterwards, you'd be thin." [cnn.com May 18, 1998]
[With all the discussion on body image and disordered eating and obsessive thinking... How do you stop obsessive thinking?] Sometimes it can be something that requires professional help. ... But, I think it can be distracting yourself. Like you said, exercising, being with friends, getting involved in your interests, your talents.
Focusing on the positive. Focusing on the traits that are really important. Your intelligence, your personality, your sense of humor. All of those kinds of things.
Karen Minero, PhD, Assistant Director, The Center for Women & Men, UCLA
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"I think that there's a lot of pressure in our society to be thin. And the truth is that it's rare that you see that you can't be thin enough. And I write in my book, you watch television, and see the movies, and somebody becomes successful or hits big, and you'll see them a year later, and they've dropped 10 pounds. What does that say about our society?" Tracey Gold ... [etonline.com Feb 25 2003]
**Room to Grow: An Appetite for Life by Tracey Gold, Julie McCarron
"I always knew there'd come a day in the future, when I was far away from the media glare, when I'd have the proper time and perspective to process all I went through. Now there are many trained experts in the field of anorexia and eating disorders; and there are a lot of girls who struggle with it. I have both: the knowledge and the experience. I want this book to be something girls can turn to for help; something they can pick up and hold, a source of comfort and encouragement. It is for every sister, daughter, or friend whose life has been touched by anorexia nervosa." Tracey Gold
 .. .. Unfortunately, most of the dreams I had as I cradled her on the delivery room table got shoved aside when she hit her teens and the first of many crises began. |
She had barely turned fourteen when an eating disorder put a sudden end to the joyful shopping trips, meals out, and lazy evenings of watching videos at home.
As her condition worsened, we stopped going to the pool to swim laps, rarely laughed together, and her grades plummeted. I was in a constant state of panic, desperate for reassurance, and afraid to face the future, searching everywhere for answers to the questions that plagued me. What had gone wrong with Ellen? How had I failed her? Would things ever return to "normal?" Cheryl Dellasega, Ph.D. from excerpt on her site from her book Surviving Ophelia: |
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I keep reminding myself that I need to be healthy as opposed to thin. That's a really hard lesson
to learn, being an actress.Kellie Martin****[Women's Sports and Fitness Magazine, January / February 2000]
photo and quotes from kellie.com
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Susan May Pratt steps into the shoes of Shelly Hunter, a young woman who is on the verge of a physical and mental breakdown. Hunter is a straight-A college student applying to Harvard Law School, but she is also battling a vicious eating disorder that threatens to consume her as well as her mother (Barbara Hershey) and sister (Christina Hendricks). "[Girls like Shelly] try to make sense of things by narrowing their life's focus to what they're eating," says Pratt. "They get a sense of pride for being in control when everyone else is out of control. I hope people talk about this film with their children and learn to recognize these problems. The sooner you catch it, the more chance for recovery."
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