Thinspiration
Olivia Newton John and her daughter, Chloe, talk to Woman’s Day magazine about the battle with anorexia that they both seem to have convinced themselves Chloe is winning. When asked about how she’s doing today, Chloe says, “I’m taking very good care of myself now but I’m not going to be like ‘Oh, I eat pizza every day!’” I assure you this girl hasn’t eaten pizza since sometime in 2003. Get healthy, Chloe!! Those legs are NOT sexy and it is NO FUN to be hungry.
More interview highlights after the jump.
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Chloe, given your mother is so healthy and clear-headed, did it take her long to see the signs?
I think that it’s hard for a parent to notice what their child is going through. Maybe sometimes parents don’t want to notice what’s going on. As a parent, you want to think everything is ok.
How did your mum react when you told her about your anorexia?
There wasn’t really a moment when I told her I had a problem. I was more in denial about it. I think she was the one that had to come to terms with it because everyone was in denial. When you go through things like that it’s a long process of accepting what’s going on.
Chloe, you’re still very slim today. Do you feel you’ve now triumphed over your eating disorder?
I’m taking very good care of myself now but I’m not going to be like ‘Oh, I eat pizza every day!’ And I’m honest about that. It hurts my heart when I think how many girls are going through that [eating disorders], and I’m lucky that I got through it because it’s a fatal thing if you don’t pull through it.
Olivia, what advice would you give to mothers in your situation?
That the parent need look at why their child has developed such a detrimental disease. And look at the issues causing the disorder. Listen to your child. Be supportive. Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can’t help if the parents aren’t present, loving and proactive.
Olivia, which of Chloe’s personal qualities are you most proud of?
I love her honesty. I love her purity. She’s a very loving girl. She’s very true in her strength of character. She’s gone through a lot and she’s got such strength. She’s got a great sense of humour. She’s very funny and very intelligent. And, then, obviously her talent.
April 17th, 2007 at 9:21 am
hi i’m mark and i really wanna be anorexic
so i would really appreciate if you gacve me some tips.
April 24th, 2007 at 1:23 am
dude your an idiot, anorexia is not a game you cant just “do it” then stop anytime you like.
April 24th, 2007 at 7:46 am
you don’t just become one… it’s a disease, either you have it or not… they don’t even know what cause it!
April 25th, 2007 at 10:31 am
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr i hate thinspirtion
April 25th, 2007 at 10:55 am
been anorexic is not funny it can serioulsy harm u its not a game and its not good for ur health y would u want to be skinny with ur bones it dose not even look nice so think about ur actions first
April 25th, 2007 at 10:57 am
I love how titling anything “thinspiration” is a surefire way to drive traffic. You girls should eat. You’ll feel better.
May 3rd, 2007 at 10:38 am
i havnt ate in a while why cant i i want to but i keep saying no??
May 15th, 2007 at 4:22 am
I’m sorry that you “want” to become anorexic. I’ve been battling anorexia/bulemia for years and my older sister has as well. It’s one of the worst things to get into and the hardest to get out of. I’d suggest healthy dieting and lots of exercise. That’s the only “right” way to lose weight. I understand that you want quick results, I did too. But in the end you only feel like a failure and it’s really easy to fall right back into anorexia again and again after you feel as if you’ve beaten it. Don’t do this. I promise you tht you’ll regret it for teh rest of your life. That sounds overdramatic, but I’m dead serious, you DON’T want this. I know you think you do, but I promise you, you really don’t. Be careful, be smart, and think about this before you spend your whole entire life battling against something that you chose to bring upon yourself. I’m not even sure if I believe that you can “become” anorexic.. I mean, you can choose to starve yourself but anorexia is more like a disease, a disease that can hurt yourself and the people you life.. a very “contagious” disease. A disease tht you dont want to catch. Just think about it..
July 1st, 2007 at 12:11 am
I WANT IT ASWELL, I HATE BEING FAT AND UGLY.
July 19th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
i really wanna be anorexic too, i wanna be that skinny.
July 23rd, 2007 at 9:35 pm
WTF thats so gay…. how the fudge wants to look like that.
she looks like she just got out of the morge.
ewwwwww.
August 2nd, 2007 at 9:49 pm
i have battling anorexia and bulimia for 5 1/2 yrs now i wish i would never have started i currently weigh 83 lbs and i am 5 ft 7 i still look at myself in the mirror and see nothing but fat but i know its not true so to you ignorant fools grow a freeking brain and loose the weight the healthy way.PLEASE!!!!!!!!
October 25th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
you people are fucked up
wanting to annorexia
annorexia is one of the worst battles anyone could ever deal with
and bullemia for that matter aswell
you fucked up people who want to be annorexic should take a look at yourselves because its not right
November 5th, 2007 at 11:51 am
Oh dear.
I’ve been researching anorexia/bulimia (NOT to learn, to understand).
It seems to be a messy cycle. If you have it, you hate it - if you don’t, you want it.
Until you get it.
I don’t think you can intentionally become anorexic, with will you could become obsessive with your weight and food intake. But whatever you do, it’s not the healthy way to lose weight.
EXERCISE.
HEALTHY FOOD.
That’s the only way, kids.
And if that seems too hard, then you’re just being lazy.
As for starvation and purging….
Love your body for what it is. It’s completley unique and doesn’t deserve this kind of treatment.
Best wishes to those affected by anorexia/bulimia.
God Bless.
November 28th, 2007 at 8:16 am
you know it´s not that cool to be fat… I mean, I´v tried to have anorexia and I coulden´t and now I´m stuck with me and my body and I hate it! I don´t wanna be anorexic, I just wanna be as thin as some anorexic dudes and stuff…
Now I´m throwing up often and I have an addiction for throwing up and nobody knows… I think nobody can help me.
But what I wonder is, why I don´t lose any waight??
Well what the fucking ever I´m gonna be the same fat lazy shit the rest of my fucking life!!DD;!!!
November 28th, 2007 at 8:19 am
oh sorry about that I forgot to put my name to that…
November 30th, 2007 at 7:48 am
Do cows have brains cause I don´t think so…:S
December 5th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
I want to be anorexic aswell! Iv just started this week,
any tips/ advice??
December 10th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
You do NOT want to be anorexic. It’s a disease. A mental disease. It WILL ruin your life.
Geez…
Please, don’t try to “get it.”
love-
someone w/ an ED
December 21st, 2007 at 1:48 am
I just want you lot to realise that an Eating disorder is NOT fun. My twin sister is 19 and is starting to hit the 5 Stones, she is suffering from bullemia and it is ruiing her and my families lives. It is one of the harderst things that i have ever had to deal with and i have a constant ache for her, i feel constantly emoitonally weak, and can cry at anything, because im so deeply upset by what my sister i going through. ED’s are not a fun and effective way to lose weight, they make the person feel like a failure, weak, disgusting and worthless, you people out there attempting to “achieve” an eating disorder make me sick, you have no idea what your talking about, Eating Disoredrs DESTROY lives, u need to grow up- if u wana lose weight, do it the right bloody way, get off ur arses do some exercise and eat good food.
Love and sympathy to the real sufferes of this terrible disease xxxxxx
January 13th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
its a game for a lil while. then u decide ur done, im thin enough.
and the when u say, that was nice im done.. you realize that ur not.
wait.
2months, 3. a week, less… you will stop eating again, becuaes i wont be able to deal with anything else.
u will have no brain power to function or to be happy.
welcome to helly my dearies, please turn the other way. im 17 and have been batteling for 6 years, yes i started in 5th grade. this is a disease.
we are dying.
January 28th, 2008 at 11:48 am
I hope that none of you get into the ED game…It’s effective at first but there’s a trap. Once you step both feet through the door and it slams behind you and disappears…you’re trapped. Forever…I know …I’ve been in the dark for 17 years. It’s a lonely place full of secrecy and shame. Learn to love yourself as you are…there are no guarantees and life is so short. Hugs to all of you who feel “not good enough”…fat or thin.
February 6th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
You people who want eating disorders, are you stupid? Eating Disorder are not a game you quit when you want. It is a disease, and it ruin lifes.. I got an ED and it’s hard! It is hell. I’m very young too. (I’m under 15, but over 10. ) But now I’v got help. ( Sorry bad English. )
February 15th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Oh my godness! She is so skinny !
February 26th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
hey, look honestly it’s quite stupid to “want” something that is impossible to get. you can’t choose whether you get aorexia or not. if you get it, you get it. if not, let it go. you dont need it. it ruins lifes. and if you still “want” it, seek help before you try so hard that it works.
March 12th, 2008 at 5:56 am
Anorexia is beautyful. Dont you guys see that :O. Everybody is talking about Nicole Richie. Thay say that she has Anorexia, but i dont think so. She is just a natural skinny. And it is beautyful. I have and have had an Eating disorder for3: years, and i still think it is beautyful. And people come to me and say that i should stop doing what im doing. But, ther is somting the dont understand. First, i like what im doing, and two i dont whant to stop doing it just becaus someone tell me to stop. When i was like 13 years i did not was that fat. But me and my ” friends2 sarted to compete who could lose the most weight. Just for fun at first. But later we just got more and more serious about it.
Well ii gues i won :P. But i did not stop there. But for one time in my life m more happy then ever. Just that i dont hhave any energi to do something, but that i dont care about.
But whatt i what to say is that ” You can have control over you body, how muche you weight and stuf like that” and Anorexia and Bulimia is not that bad if you can control it.
I¨ve lost 12 pounds in like 2 month. And im so proud over my self. But i dont think i can go further becaus my body just has stopt losing weight.
It is bad. but i dont care. Im happy with what i¨ve lost.
Anorexia for life :D:D:D <3
March 14th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
she looks fantastic, lucky girl
March 19th, 2008 at 6:05 am
The thing with anorixia is that your morelikley to somehow into the trap rather than put yourself there. Im trapped and i find it soo frustrating that everthing i eat i have to consider whether or not i should eat it. And to be honest, when i look in the mirror, i just see fat and i hate it! I try losing way the normal way but i fail and turn to starving and eating very little!! Right now im 5ft 4,5in, and weight less that 6.5 stones……i dont care about by weight on the scales, its just the image and i hate it. ….Anyway its seems like no matter what i do i just can lose anymore weight…whats happened?
on the other hand i also sympathise with those with an ED, even me. i think im a loser for doing this but like i said, its like a trap which is difficult to get out of!!
March 20th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Semen will help cure anorexia.
It has be taken pretty regularly, but trust me, it will do the trick.
It also helps with acne.
March 26th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
what the hell are you talking about??????????????? she’s a:”DEAD WOMAN WALKING”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WAKE UP!!!
March 27th, 2008 at 12:16 am
i hate this! there´s this boy in our school but i don´t think he´s into me…i´m just too fat i guess…-_-
March 31st, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Ok….here is what i think. I think trying to become anorexic is really to the max reatard if you want to become SKINNY please please just do it the right way exercise and eat really healthy food not just eat breakfeast and not eat for the rest of the day eat a healthy breakfeast, lunch, and dinner its good when you eat sometimes but just dont over eat you dont know how much damage you will do to your body if you try and become anorexic i mean look at the first picture of her, her legs are bonny and she has a lot of extra fat about people trying to become anorexic and are starving themselves…ruining there beautifulness…and not excepting the way you are…God brought you to this planet for you to be happy and not be doing crazy things to yourself. If you are a girl and likes this guy thats really skinny and has abs…im not saying its bad to be in love but…if he doesnt like you they way you are then really who is he he probably just wants someone to use. I am a girl im 13 years old i am in 7th grade i weigh 140 and i dont care sometimes its really fun to be fat… because if you become really skinny then it will be hard to find clothes if you are anorexic…trust me…anyways i like this guy he has a hot body abs nothing but muscle..and he has been my friend since kindergarten he is an 8th grader…and he likes me…he doesnt really care how i look but by the way i act…he loves me because i am me…not because of how fat i am…okay another true story i have this friend that is nothing but skin and bone…he is 5′7 and my friend likes him she is like 170 pounds, 7th grader , 13 years old and what i found out is that my friend she is like 115 pounds says a guy if you are skinny he will use you he will do whatever to try and touch your bikini parts so think about it if you wanna become anorexic and then you do become it a guy you like likes you he will do no matter what to try and touch your private parts so being skinny takes risk too. so think before making choices that will hurt u kill u and ruin ur families lifes. Rember the next time you go to the restroom and throw up remember that u will never get skinny…by doing it that way remember eat healthy and exercise! dont be someone you will pretend later…
best wishes to those out there making there lives miserable just by becoming anorexic that God may lead you to the right paths.
April 1st, 2008 at 4:36 am
fittttttttttttttttttttttttttyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
April 9th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
y cant people just be slim or curvy y look like a painted skeleton?? and y would u want to b no 1 relli finds that attractive
April 14th, 2008 at 5:52 am
i suffer from anorexia, and im boy…
and dude your a total douche.. its like cancer. its a disease, and let me just say that you really dont want to be going through what me and a lot of other people i know are..all you think about all day long is how much more you can take…
and theres a name we have for people like you, wanarexic’s
April 16th, 2008 at 11:24 am
thanks to all the ppl who av gave advice on ere im gonna listen so at least uv saved someone!!thanx
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:48 am
Her arms and legs are amazing but she still has a bit of a round belly.
Wish all girls looked like that
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
you do not want anorexia. it ruins your life. it ruined mine. and it also hurt my entire family. and its been 3 years since i started. if i could go back and stop it i would in a heartbeat. also, when your anorexic, you have bad side effects, for example, losing chunks of your hair because you get no nutrients or vitamins. you do not want it. please i beg you don’t do it if your even curious about it
it goes from wanting to loose a few pounds, to an obsession, to a disease. that is extremely hard to overcome. i haven’t overcome it.
i’m 5′4″ and 93 lbs. don’t do it. just don’t its a bad idea. you’ll regret it like you don’t even know…
April 25th, 2008 at 3:56 am
I use to be anorexic i had a goal weight…
went on many diets then just started eating less and less i got to m weight and wanted more… i use to not eat at all for day’s then peck at something and feel guily i got so skinny. i loved it.
i didnt want to go out i had nightmares about eating food. i lost all my friends everytime they said oh mygod eat something it would make me more obbsessive to loose some more cause it was working.. i would walk for hours to keepmy occupied i would nearly pass out everday it was so hard to get up at night to go pee cause me legs were so weak. i coldnt sit on anything hard cause it hurt like my bones where just pinching my skin against it.i got bruses all over me. and was buying kids cloths. i got over it myself and put on some weight. still well under when i started
its always on my mind and is gradually creeping up on me in loosing weight again but i am eating. i try not to go withouteating smething for a whole day because i dont want to be as bad as i was before. and i know if i skip a whol day without eating i will fall bak into the bad habbit.
its always on your mind and will be with me for the rest of my life its a constant yo yo of eating starving biinging and purging.
i see how guys dont like the way anorexic boney people look… but i dont care about men ijust wanna be thin and different. it is beautiful.. just keep it under a bit of control.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:20 am
I love her body. <3 love her belly and legs and arms and everythoing, it is så…. nice
April 26th, 2008 at 7:36 am
Dude, these people are SO DUMB to say they wanna be anorexic. I cant believe how stupid they must be. It’s one thing to say that u wanna get in shape or lose some fat but to say u wanna be ugly pathetic boney ass person who pukes out every bite or who denies themselves food cuz they dont know hoe else to lose weight.. wow please never procreate.
April 26th, 2008 at 7:37 am
She looks ugly like an old woman. EWW horrible figure.
April 26th, 2008 at 7:40 am
‘I tried to have anorexia’ DUMBASS!!!! anorexia isn’t something u try to have… it hits u and then u r fucked or u r just a dumbass thinking anorexia is some cool diet plan. I piss on u.
April 26th, 2008 at 7:42 am
To all those people trying to have anorexia: please keep up the ‘good’ work cuz i hope u wont have your dumb offspring.
April 26th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
“i hate this! there´s this boy in our school but i don´t think he´s into me…i´m just too fat i guess…-_-”
…
1. If he doesn’t like you because of your weight, he’s shallow and not worth your time.
2. Maybe there are OTHER reasons he doesn’t like you. :/ Maybe he doesn’t like your personality, Idk. I’ve hated my friend’s boyfriend’s before, but they love them. Everyone has a different opinion.
April 26th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
I attempted anorexia before, didn’t work. I’m considering attempting bulimia, even though I know how terrible it is. Can anyone email me at toxiiccookiie@yahoo.com with some bulimia horror stories that scare me out of it? D:
April 27th, 2008 at 7:18 am
oooooooooooo-i wanna be anorexic!!!i’ll start right now.i think i’ll go and puke….oh no thats the other one innit.bulimia.thats right.
April 27th, 2008 at 9:24 am
bullemia doesnt make you thin. you eat a lot before you purge. the purging gets rid of the low cal stuff like water and fibre that your body doesnt grasp at for sustainance.
anorexia is horrible, you wake up, you watch everyone around you eat and not even think about it, knowing you can’t do that. you never think about anything else, and you can’t help it anymore. you feel depressed, sad and weak. its a disease caused by perfectionism and obsession. you don’t get it by intending to. you do it for control. you think you’re better than other people because they can’t hack the dieting. you can’t stop because you’re scared of living without the rigorous restrictions that keep you grounded. you only have one life. you want to starve throughout and have people pity you? or do you want to have the best life you can achieve? up to you. i continually make the wrong choice but one day it migt change.
get a better hobbie. make yourself happy. make other people happy. set attaineable goals and be satisfied when you reach them. i think that’s what matters. don’t be a control freak, it’ll be alright in the end, whatever the problem is. i hope this helps anyone obsessed with their weight or otherwise. x
April 29th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
The people posting here should concentrate more on learning how to spell than on on ED’s. The spelling here is pathetic–like third-grade level!!
May 4th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
i think that for some of the people leaving these comments on here, to others may be very very offensive….i have dealt with ED for 3 years now, and it is not somehting you “want” or “try to have” becuase in all honesty, it destroys your entire life and everything around you. it becomes who you are and what you do and its really nothing to joke about. so maybe to those out there who try to have eating disorders, think again becuase once you fall down that hole, its a hell of a climb back out
May 5th, 2008 at 12:27 am
Olivia Newton-John was born in Cambridge, England on September 26th 1948; her family moved to Australia when she was 5. Her mother was German, daughter of the physicist Max Born, her father was Welsh, a professor of German at Cambridge and Melbourne. Despite the academic background, early on Olivia showed an interest in singing, forming a band called the Sol Four with some schoolfriends, and later on singing at her brother in law’s coffee bar in Australia.
Koala Blue, founded in 1983 by Olivia NewtonJohn.
Chloe was born early 1986, and this marked a hiatus in Olivia’s music. The period 1986 to 1992 was a lean period in her entertainment career, as she dedicated herself to motherhood, and to developing her business venture, the Koala Blue chain of stores.
Olivia transformed her original idea for a Australian speciality store into a fashion chain. This enterprise was established with fellow-Australian and wife of Olivia’s long-time record producer, Pat Farrar, with whom Olivia had started out singing in Britain in the late Sixties and early Seventies. Koala Blue was to be a more family-friendly alternative to an intensive singing career, but it did not last the late ’80s/early ’90s recession. Olivia chose to expand the franchise chain just as consumers were reining in their expenditure on non-essentials, and the company filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy amid some recriminations.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
ana wrecks your life.
May 10th, 2008 at 6:38 am
To all of you out there (including the ana/mia sufferers):
There are severl types of EDs out there.
For those of you who are overweight…you may be already suffering from an ED that is keeping over weight.
ALL EATING DISORDERS DON’T MAKE YOU SKINNY!
People have this assupmtion that if you are overweight it is because of choices that you are consciously making. A binge eater or a food addict has no more control over what they are doing to their body than a sever anorexic or bullemic.
Saying, “just east healthy and exercise” is like saying “just eat a big mac and large fries followed by some ice cream, and then don’t barf it up or exercises until you collapse.”
Take it from someone who has been to both extremes and continues to battle….
Anorexics, I know you suffer, but don’t negate the suffering of someone with food addiction. Nobody on here WANTS to suffer the way an anorexic suffers…they just desperately want to appear thin on the outside. Trust me…to someone with food addiction…an anorexic looks like they have it all together. They look like they have won control over food (as crazy as that may seem) and they small bodies.
We all suffer, and no one ED is worse than any other. (whether it makes your body big or small).
Love who you are, and realize that your body is just the package you come in. The rest will follow!
much love!
May 14th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
well ladies bot my sisters have died s i would stop saying u wanna and im the oldesytm my sisters were 13 and 11 trust me i think its my fault cause im older they looke up to me and i let them down. So think about it caueim gunna die soon too. Atleast if dont stop.
May 14th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
btw some people might be offended if u say u wanna b and if ur joking about it its NOT funny.
May 14th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
i wrote that ^(above this comment)
May 24th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
greaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
May 25th, 2008 at 3:30 am
Anorexia is nothing u become..
I wouldn´t even wisch my worst enemy 2 get it!
take care foaks and stay amay from it! before u loose your friends, your life and part of your family…
//Nikki
May 26th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
she looks SO good on rock the cradle, im glad that she had the strength to pull through it because she looks amazing now, especially when compared to her in that picture. yeah, if you want an eating disorder that’s crazy, you should REALLY try to lose weight the right way because id imagine that eating disorders are a hard battle.
May 29th, 2008 at 9:22 am
I’m not going to say that anorexia is good, but there are alot of pro anorexia sites where you can talk to other anorexics about your problems with food, and they all understand!
I kind of get what people mean about they wanna b anorexic, coz I do. Even tho it is a mental disorder, it just makes me feel better, because I can get as thin as anorexics and use the same methods without the emotional turmoil.
May 29th, 2008 at 9:24 am
btw, must it not be a bit of a mental disorder to want to be ana? So don’t diss what you don’t understand.
May 29th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
wo i wouldnt say its a disease ur born with, because i love to eat but i always get stomach aches every time i do. Honestly anyone could be anorexic. i dont wanna be like her skin and bones i want alittle meat because im very conscious of myself and i cant help that. i want to lose weight fast not in 8 months. the first day ur stomach is gurgling and u want food but after tht day u start to ignore the food and not want it. and once i put a picture of a girl with the body i wanted and put it in my pocket so whenever i saw cookies i would take it out and not want food. but i would eat an apple a day or a fruit every other day. “a apple a day keeps the doctor away”. i heard tht from someone wiht anorexia. But honestly i hope i helped. Be Safe.
June 1st, 2008 at 7:36 am
..you people who want anorexia”
are crazy and stupid ..
people like you’re called
wannanorexics”
..it’s a disease a mental disorder!!it’s not like saying:
oh” i’m so fat..i want anorexia..and than eventually
stop it..
do you people even KNOW what the word “disease” means??
it started with me..as a diet”
at the 1st few months you dont really GET” it..
but after few months…it’ll start brain-washing you..!!
i lost a lott of weight and recovered and than gained it
back again.. and my life seemed miserable..
and everyone treated me like shit” my mom thinks i’m a trouble-maker i dont have any real-friends and i felt fucked up
and realised…WHY am i stuffing myself and gaining all this fattt??why dont
i have any control over myself anymore..*sighs*
ana hasnt totally gained..it’s power over me..BUT
i’ve lost 5 kgs now…!!i know at the end..i’ll be the one to suffer
and i want to..!!i’m going through a lot of pain
and am often suicidal..arghh!!
June 4th, 2008 at 1:36 am
hm… people who want to have a disorder, whatever it may be, cannot really mean it…
We all want to be healthy, do we? Or would anyone like to disagree?
So… for all these people who want to loose weight the “easy way” through a serious eating-disorder like anorexia (which can be fatal if not medical or mental treated in therapy) are totally ignorant of the fact, that anorexia is a “very, very hard way” to be a slim person.
Any sensible concept of loosing weight, like having sport on a regular basis or change the way of your eating substances, i. e. a balanced diet are much more “easier” to battle heavy weight than undertake the risky way of “wanting anorexia”, which is, in fact, unfortunatly possible…
You can suggest yourself in having that disease, because it is mainly mental, but the other way arround is not that easy, that means, once you “have” that disorder loosing it again will be very much more difficult (very difficult… people are dying sometimes, in fact).
Being a adoposity person is rarely a choice by the gods or your personal circumstances. It is more a medical case coming from a physiological sequelae of malnutrition but in some cases it IS realy a disposition which can also be treated.
No one, I say, NO ONE have to be stuck with a full figured body nowadays. But you have to have the will to change your life through the help of someone professional.
Friends alone cannot help you enough to solve this problem unless you happen to have the fortunate advantage to call a nutrition science or a medical-scientist with a good physician-patient relationship to you a real friend.
I hope you all have the strength and the luck of a healthy social environment (parents, friends, colleages, etc.) which helps you through the bad times in your life so you can focus on the good ones in that regard.
Best wishes and luck
Morik
June 9th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
There’s worse things than being overweight. At least I eat what and when I want, am more content, warmer, happier, friendlier, and most people don’t even think iI AM overweight, and many still find me attractive, even those much younger than I. I’m no glutton, I just eat normally.
June 17th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
PS: if you are ana and just try to eat again all at once…… it hurts. you feel like shit and often purge to feel better. The thing is, it takes even more will power to get out of then in. It is a dangerous and life threatening battle. You are not happy, because you still never think you’re good enough. So for all of those fighting it, i wish you a safe recovery, and for all of you that want it, you really should be calling a suicide hotline, because that’s what ana is.
June 18th, 2008 at 9:00 am
i just wanted to agree with the people that are annoyed with the wanna be anorexics. i have anorexia and it sucks struggling with it, and knowing i’ll never eat anything again without thinking about how many exact calories in it sucks. if your over weight you don’t say hey! i wanna be anorexic! thats ignorant and you shouldn’t be saying it, you have no idea what it feels like. and your lucky.
June 27th, 2008 at 6:09 am
i wanted an ed. i didnt HAVE anorexia, but i followed an extreme anorexic diet. if you do that, it’s just as dangerous. i told myself i would stop if i started feeling unhappy, and i did. i would just lie, on my floor, crying, and i felt like the most worthless, useless, lazy, fatfatfatfatfat, disgusting person alive. so i recognized this and stopped. that was months ago, and now i jsut go through phases of it every now and then, and lately i’ve been throwing up every day. but i’m happy, and no where near deathly.. but i don’t think it counts as having an ed because i don’t wish i didnt have it, and i’m happy. i’m the happiest when i’m not eating
July 1st, 2008 at 11:06 am
Im sorry that you feel that you have to be anorexic to be happy but you do not. I mean I just started dieting and exercising and already in one day I have lost four pounds. It gives you such a rush to know that you did it the right way. And exercise releases endorphines which make you feel happy. So eat and exercise its a better happy then anorexia. I hope that all of you who are struggling with the disease learn to beat it and overcome this grim reaper. Tell your parents or a councilor. They can truely help. May God bless you all.
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:36 am
I dont want to be anorexic, but I would love to be that thin, Im 5″6 and 116lbs and Im just trying to lose weight the healthy way through a safe calorie controlled diet high in fruit and veg and plenty of exercise!
July 5th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
I am currently on the verge of becoming anorexic,im 13,i weigh 105 and have been pushed my entire life to be thin.Im in balett an Jazz and Tapdance,plus I have gymnatics tht i ave to worry about.My moher has noiced my weight gain.I knw im a littl overweight but i truly do want to lose some weight!!!!can somene pleez tell me what i can do?
July 9th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
maybe you guys should lay off her. she’s beautiful and so are her bones. i’m sure she wants to look that way. i think she looks great.
July 10th, 2008 at 12:05 am
I’ve battled obesity all my life. I’ve dieted many times (the healthy,right way) but have never been able to keep the weight off. I lack something anorexics have; control, discipline,drive,focus..etc. Call it what you will, if having extreme control & discipline is a disease I want it!! Being overweight can kill me. I’m depressed & extremely uncomfortable all the time. I do exercise and watch what I eat but it does’nt help. I want to be anorexic, at least long enough to lose 100lbs or so..what’t wrong with that? I’ll give you tips on how to put on weight, you teach me how to lose it and keep it off. Sounds like a fair deal to me.
July 10th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
If you don’t want hear the (real and painfull) advices, so you really deserve the hell that you looking for.
Do you are willing to mistreat your familiy , who really cares for you…?Lose weight is not a problem…but the way how you want do it.Visit a anorexic child and talk with her parents…and say to them that you thing it’s cool…
It is a just fool’s gold. Sometimes we want just be normal. Anorexic people aren’t normal. It is an extreme as bad as the other, the loss is the same. If not worse. Famous people be anorexic, aren’t a glory, but shame, just reflects an unhealthy and mad world.
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Unfortunatelly soft words don’t work , only the own hard experiences,I now.
The smart learns with another’s mistakes…
For who are fighting against this disease, God are bless you and good luck!
It’s hard but keep trying convince these strong head fools…it’s your holy task =).
However, God bless and help all in this weird world.
July 15th, 2008 at 6:19 am
ki è??? è una bella donna vero???
July 29th, 2008 at 3:57 am
Is there a difference between a hunger strike and a restictive anorectic?
July 31st, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I suffered from an eating disorder a few years ago. I was 14, 5′7″, and weighed only 84 pounds. It was the lowest point of my life. I would look in the mirror and tell myself that I had to be thinner. I was surrounded by friends who were all thin people, but healthy, and I always thought of myself as “the fat one in the group”. It started with me just eating healthier and excercising, trying to lose weight in a healthy way. (By the way, I was only 115 pounds so I wasn’t even fat to begin with.) But then I wasn’t seeing results, instead, I would tell myself that because I excercised, or because I ate healthy, I could go off and eat ice cream and cookies and Doritos. So during that time, I was actually gaining weight. I felt terrible about my body. I knew I was fat, even though if you would have looked at me it wouldn’t have seemed so. Slowly, I started to eat less and less, and if my mother asked why I wasn’t eating, I would just say that I wasn’t feeling well. Soon, I was so thin that she knew that I wasn’t ill. She took me to a clinic where I was diagnosed with anorexia and ever since I have been getting help. Now, I weigh a healthy and beautiful 110 pounds. Anorexia is the worst thing that has happened to me. It was a huge battle to overcome, and I missed out on so many things during my treatment. After I was taken out of rehab, I couldn’t participate in Phy Ed, had to quit soccer, and was watched all the time to make sure I eat. I had no privacy, and no life. You don’t want to be anorexic. You may think you do, but once you get it, it ruins your life. And you never recover from the emotional scars it leaves behind.
August 5th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
you people who are posting on this page saying “i want to become anorexic” are a bunch of idiots–either that or you have a death wish. i knew a girl, luckily we were not close friends, who died from anorexia two years ago. she still went to college during the last weeks of her life, before she was put into the hospital, and she looked grotesque. her upper arm was skinnier than her lower, and her neck was thicker than her thighs. is that how you want to end up. yes it is fool’s gold, as someone else posted on here. you don’t want to be too thin; you certainly don’t want to become too fat. but don’t say that you want to be anorexic! think before you speak–or, in this case, type. be careful what you wish for–it just might come true.