Killed by Anorexia - model dies

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I’ve talked about it in my blog. Most recently the ban on models who are too skinny, Link; and those who want to change their bodies by any mean necessary, Link.

I’ve read about it on other blogs, in the news media. I think it’s a horrible thing that’s happening to girls and women in the hopes of being thin. Personally I don’t know anyone with this illness, but I’ve seen and heard enough about it in the media to know that Anorexia Nervosa is a horrible disease.

In the news last night there is a report that model, Carolina Reston, died from it. She weighed only 88 pounds and was 21 years old! It’s a horrible way to die, starving oneself, which is what she was doing. She was living on tomatoes and some other fruit, and throwing it up as soon as she eats, according to the news magazine show on television. So sad! She was such a beautiful girl and so young, too young to die like this!


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Will this be a wakeup call for the industry, Hollywood and the Fashion world that something needs to be done? It’s time for them to be more proactive and say that it’s not ok to look emaciated all in the name of beauty and the alleged American ideal - albeit the wrong ideal! While the other side of the spectrum, being obese, is also a problem and not something to be, there is a middle road, and it’s time they begin to speak up and let these young girls out there hear their collective voices!

Will this be a wakeup call to those women out there who really need the help; some are too lost to see their own illness and are in denial. Not just people in the industry, not just young impressionable teens but grown women as well!
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Will it be a wake up call?  Sadly no.  Money is the motive, and as long as there is a demand, Hollywood and Modeling will fill it.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
*sigh*...as long as the popular trends keep up...this will inevitably continue. ALL, repeat ALL the girls that I know worry about how much they weigh. They're always trying some weird diet or commenting on losing a bit of weight and they look fine...fine as hell in some cases. I keep saying, "You're fine the way you are, in fact better than that."..but they keep going, luckily none of them are anorexic but still, they worry too much about being so damn thin. I could literally throw these girls farther than I can trust them...and I trust them quite a bit. I'm on the larger side of the weight spectrum...could stand to lose a bit of weight, but hey...I don't let it consume my life.

I don't know what to do...it's strange. I've never let any media icons affect me in such a way...so I'm not exactly in tune with that mindset. I mean...is it "see skinny girls on TV, must be skinny" because that's what it looks like.

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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
It's sick, it's sadistic, and it's media driven, society, parents, leaders, need to do more to fight this need to be thin, and this growing need in our society to alter our outward appearance. It's nothing more then narassitic, shallow, obsession. It is wrong, it takes away from the depth of meaning our lives can be for ourselves and others and it causes way too many people of both sexes pain when they can't be the perceived "perfect"
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
Also, most guys(myself included) like a little junk in the trunk, ladies...so have a donut once in awhile.

~Zoo
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Just a thought....How's about we stop referring to people who purposely starve themselves in a land rich with all the food an emaciated Somalian could ever ask for as "beautiful"? I bet she was so lovely once upon a time, but this trend of glorifying and criticizing skinny minnies at the same time is...making me hungry, actually.......
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
I suggest that Random Visitorette joins our team.

Whenever I think of anorexia, I think about Karen Carpenter, a fantastic singer with a unique voice . I loved her music and often feel so sad about her demise. Could she have been saved?
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
fine as hell in some cases


Those are the ones that make me feel the worst. the girls who are desperately pretty, painfully gorgeous, but they think that they're fat and ugly. There are too many out there like that.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
It's a mental problem that has to do with trying to keep up with what is considered beautiful and "in" in the world. If the world said that fat people are attractive, then these same girls will probably stuff themselves till they burst.
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
I like the idea of not acknowledging too skinny models as beauty. To paraphrase Zoo: a little bit of meat on the bone is way nicer
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
Will it be a wake up call? Sadly no. Money is the motive, and as long as there is a demand, Hollywood and Modeling will fill it.


Unfortunately true Doc. This will be another 'isolated incident' as mentioned by one source. They won't take some of the blame.



ALL, repeat ALL the girls that I know worry about how much they weigh. They're always trying some weird diet or commenting on losing a bit of weight and they look fine...fine as hell in some cases. I keep saying, "You're fine the way you are, in fact better than that."..but they keep going, luckily none of them are anorexic but still, they worry too much about being so damn thin. I could literally throw these girls farther than I can trust them...and I trust them quite a bit. I'm on the larger side of the weight spectrum...could stand to lose a bit of weight, but hey...I don't let it consume my life.


Yes Shaun, I know what you mean. Even I'm guilty of that too. But in my case I do need to be in better shape. I have seen and know some women in better shape who are constantly on a diet. It's not a good thing.


mean...is it "see skinny girls on TV, must be skinny" because that's what it looks like.


It has a lot to do with it. The images in popular media, on tv, etc., are too compelling!


It's sick, it's sadistic, and it's media driven, society, parents, leaders, need to do more to fight this need to be thin, and this growing need in our society to alter our outward appearance. It's nothing more then narassitic, shallow, obsession. It is wrong, it takes away from the depth of meaning our lives can be for ourselves and others and it causes way too many people of both sexes pain when they can't be the perceived "perfect"


I agree with you too Dan. It is sick, it does cause a lot of pain and yes for men as well!


How's about we stop referring to people who purposely starve themselves in a land rich with all the food an emaciated Somalian could ever ask for as "beautiful"?


Good point! It doesn't matter which news media or magazine you look at, the models are not just thin, reed thin, emaciated, they are so young! That's the other part of it that's so horrible!


Whenever I think of anorexia, I think about Karen Carpenter, a fantastic singer with a unique voice . I loved her music and often feel so sad about her demise. Could she have been saved?


Most definately Adnauseam! I loved her music too, still do. It was so sad what happened to her as well, that is how she died so early in her lifetime. I don't know, I've seen the lifestories of the Carpenters, and according to it, they tried to do everything they could for her. It's the mental state, what the disease of anorexia does to those afflicted with it. The thing is, from the time of her death, that should have been a wakeup call for many in Hollywood, Fashion, even in real life.



painfully gorgeous, but they think that they're fat and ugly. There are too many out there like that.


Yes this is true. Unfortunately, the thinking doesn't only have to change with these girls, their boyfriends and their parents have a lot to do with it too.


If the world said that fat people are attractive, then these same girls will probably stuff themselves till they burst.


Probably Raven, probably. But as the fashion industry and hollywood is what it is, that will never happen. Even curvy size 12 or 14 is too fat to them, even size 8 is fat to them!


I like the idea of not acknowledging too skinny models as beauty.


Yes, me too. I guess this is what the European counterparts were trying to do. I haven't heard anything else about it so I don't know if the ban is still on.

a little bit of meat on the bone is way nicer


Yep, not too much, not too little, just right, for some anyway!