A friend of mine was dating this guy and one night in the bar she overheard him saying that she had a fat ass(which she didn’t!) and from that night on she stopped eating and ended up losing so much weight that she had to go into a dietary unit in a local hospital to save her life! Never say anything about anyone because nobody is perfect! Px
I remember when I was about 23 years old. My husband started having an affair with my best friend. I would come home from work and there she would be " washing, she would barrow my washing machine to wash her cloths. I felt so totally out lacking in control that I decided to lose weight because I could control my eating. I got down to 99lbs 5ft4in. tall. I finally felt like I had some control over what was happening. Anyway I looked in the mirror one day and said enough. I got a divorce and started eating again. I'm now 70 and have never remarried.
I was 103 at 5'4" when I started college in the 70's but I didn't feel that I was too thin - but back then people were thinner anyway. Now that I'm 60 lbs heavier, I wish I was that weight. I found out my husband was a serial cheater and I too have never remarried.
@@Cabbage105 but she was never in recovery. Her mother signed her out of that 5150 within a few days. She was forced to go. That’s not being in recovery. She didn’t relapse, she’s always been full force into this disease.
But she was trying to recover after the 5150, she put on a few pounds and in her morning routine she was making breakfast and talking in another video about getting better. But very quickly she started losing weight again@@lynda_marie2857
Mental disorder is not spreading by marketing! You either have it not but it's not a contagious disease. You don't get it by watching skeletons or anatomy books should be banned by the very reason!
My Mom had a doctor years ago tell her she was fat at 95 lbs. That doctor didn't know Momma had been big before she went to nursing school. My Dad and I begged her for years to get over 100. She would then another doctor would make a comment about her size. It wasn't the reason she died in 2022 but her malnutrition played a big role. She was in the hospital to get a feeding tube because of her severe gastro paralysis and acid reflux. Her gastro doctor kept trying to force her to eat and she aspirated which led to pneumonia. That's what's killed her.
95 is ok when you're only 4 foot 9.... in your younger years. As a woman ages whatever her height and bmi might be, our metabolism naturally slows and our body starts to go into the middle life stage and things such as menopause and hormonal changes will greatly impact your weight and body shape. Shame on those doctors. It sounds awfully uneducated to say such a thing to a grown woman. Sigh. I'm very sorry for your loss dear.
That’s all it takes. One off the cuff remark. I will never forget the day Karen Carpenter died. A once beautiful, healthy, very successful woman with an angel’s voice was told she looked chubby and that was it. She fell straight into the hell that is anorexia. I still miss her perfect pitch voice and feel sad for the kind of life she might have had. God Bless, Karen. 🦋
respect my acrotomophilia. some people like rich overweight unethical people. some like skinny unhealthy bone strucutre. we dont decide atraction, alot of women like rich overweight unethical men. we have to respect thier preferentism! overweight unhealthy men and women underweight unhealthy men and women! everyone for everyone! skinny men whining, skinny women whining, obese men whininign, obese women whining! and all other variation
Sadess by far was Karen Carpenter. That glorious voice taken from us way to soon. I wish she could have thrived from those who loved her, but she looked in the mirror and couldn't see her beauty at all. Her music still saddens me, while bringing me joy. RIP beautiful soul.❤
I was on my way back to work after lunch, when I heard on the radio that Karen had passed away. I started sobbing, looking a total mess when I got back to work. Loved her beautiful, melodic voice! Such a tragic loss to the world...just because some jerk wrote an article about the Carpenters and mentioned that Karen was "chubby"! Shame on them!! Miss Karen immensely!!
I can't bear to listen to Karen Carpenter any more. It just makes me so sad to hear her. I grew up with the Carpenters. Poor woman was, sadly, so unable to appreciate herself.
. People who anorexic tend to be people who are perfectionist and the mind set is just like some who has a addiction. The difference is instead of abusing the drug you are not eating and when you lose weight that give you sense of control over something in your life. Then you get to the point you basically get addicted to dieting and tell yourself you a loser if you have a extra green bean. Then the longer you continue the path, the more it just sort takes over your daily thought and actions. It is differently a complex mental illiness and most people who lose weight are not going to become anorexic. Just like somebody who tries a Percocet the first time after an injury will not just become a addict or have a glass of wine become an alcoholic. What happen is the person already has the mental problem and then those drug or in this case lack of food give the person a feel or control or escape from emotions. To get to the point you are actually anorexic, you have a lot of mess up thinking going on. Most of the time when people fall into addiction they usually have something that has happen to them in there past that they have just tried to cover up and not really dealt with it. I could be something like parent getting divorce and not understand or realizing how that may have effected someone more then they thougnt.
nope it can be easy. I went from bmi 14 to bmi 25 within half a year after a threat from mom. Now i just dont want to have a child body w granny face lol
Amen. I have an eating disorder. I use to binge eat when I was younger and now I have to force myself to eat or make something super delicious so I will just eat. Wish I was normal
@@JAM661 Thank you for your insight. It really is a mental disorder. I had a very unhappy and verbally taunting mother. I had very low self esteem. I believe the anorexia I developed was a way of having some control over my life. At the same time I felt substandard and wished to be invisible in a way. I sought help when I was down to 87 pounds and was beginning to have some vision anomalies and did not menstruate for over a year’s time. I am a healthy 82 years old now, and have maintained my ideal weight of 102 to 105 for decades even after giving birth to my son when I was in my mid thirties. There is a difference between living to eat, and eating to live.
@@CarolSchlickshe's still alive and looking even thinner than ever. she can barely move herself around and she's still in complete denial about her situation
Why hide Lizzy's blind eye ?!! Lizzy is the most amazing woman and human being who has a condition through fault of her own and despite it, she is an inspiration to watch and listen to and to take life advice from. Who ever covered her blind eye in the video, don't ! She makes no attempt to cover her eye, neither should anyone else.
I couldn't understand why that was covered either. She is truly an inspiration. I believe she started being a motivational speaker after being called the ugliest women alive by some foul person on TH-cam , in 2006 when she was just 17. She speaks out about bullying.
Lizzy truly is a sweetheart. Sadly, people can be extremely mean and insensitive which I wish they would think instead of saying such horrible things to her. They should read about her disorder so they would understand before judging.
@@RobinMarconeCassidyRN Agree. That woman is gorgeous, she may not have stunning looks but what she lost in looks she gained 10-fold in personality, warmth and humanity. She puts many humans to shame .
@@mmac-fr5xu What a kind thing to say! I only wish Lizzy gets to read your comment. She needs to hear exactly what people see when they look at her instead of being judged. I also agree with you🙏
I feel the need to clarify something. In the medical world, anorexia refers to a person who is uncommonly thin, regardless of the cause. For example, the people profiled here who have conditions that don't allow their bodies to store fat, are anorexic because they are extremely thin. Anorexia nervosa is a psychological disorder that is the cause of a persons extreme thinness, such as in the case of Karen Carpenter and some of the others in this video. I don't think anyone with dwarfism belongs on this list unless they are also extremely underweight for their size.
It makes me REALLY mad when morbidly obese people in the Fat Acceptance Movement say they "have anorexia" (*cough* Tess Holiday *cough*) because they feel like they have to restrict their eating (when they don't).
(a-nuh-REK-see-uh) An abnormal loss of the appetite for food. Anorexia can be caused by cancer, AIDS, a mental disorder (i.e., anorexia nervosa), or other diseases.
This is a good point to remember, but just to clarify, the term anorexia refers to lack of appetite, it doesn’t have anything to do with being thin. A fat person that hasn’t been eating bc of lack of appetite bc of illness or other reason is anorexic. The “nervosa” means it’s a disorder. Regardless, the point being made is important and I’m extremely surprised and disappointed that this program got it wrong.
i'm a 14 year old biological female. when i was 12, almost 13, i began having stomach pain and nausea relating to a chronic condition due to a birth defect. as a result, i didnt eat much. my stomach shrank. at the time, i was a good weight, around 115 and standing at 5"2. that was october 2022. by april, i was 96 pounds and was not eating lunch or snack at school. i ended up just not bringing food and giving my school lunches to my (at the time) boyfriend. he didn't seem too worried....maybe a red flag. anyways, my stomach shrank and i would barely eat breakfast. i had these chocolate protein shakes and i ended up throwing them up in the kitchen sink because i would brush my teeth and trigger my gag reflex. it was horrible. but, after going on probiotics and prebiotics, i began to heal and eat more. what also didn't help with my weight was that i had an undiagnosed injury (despite going to 5 doctors for it AND physical therapy) and the injury lasted 8 months. not in shape, not gaining weight, wasn't eating. recipe for disaster. i hope eugenia gets the help she needs......she should realize her worth. she's a human being and all humans matter. i feel horrible for the other people on this list, they don't/didn't deserve what happened to them.
Well that Romanian lass didn't look that skinny or that shape in that wedding photo, there's no way she's that shape naturally She's either had ribs removed or she's used corset's for a long time, she may be naturally slim but the drastic hour glass waist isn't
It's all disgusting and very sad .how did we ever get the idea no fat looks good..if you're that way that's one thing but tbh for most people to find anorexic people attractive I just don't see it
Let's see... there's a spine, muscles supporting the spine, intestines with food trying to get through, blood vessels trying to get nutrients out of the intestines, blood vessels trying to get nutrients and oxygen to the pelvis and legs. How does all this get stuffed in there?!😮
That Romanian lass is first of all living in *Germany* for he past 20 years, her name is Ioana not Loana, and in Romania *people do not like to be fat to show off "wealth and status".* What an *absolute* nonsense. Romania is in the top 30% richest countries of the world, at an economic level similar to Poland and I am *tired* of this bullshit people spew about my country. It is also *not* extremely corrupt acc to international statistics - countries like Hungary and Bulgaria rank worse than it in the EU, and *definitely not* a place to come and traffic women. This is *so* frustrating, when other countries so similar to us get mostly praise while we are *constantly* scapegoated & demonised. Pathetic
Nobody said anything ill about all Romanian's or Romania , I was just saying the lass wasn't that shape naturally that's all, I didn't dis either people or place If the lass had been Irish I would have said the same about that Irish lass
I really admire the determination of Tom Staniford (first guy), who inherited a rare and terrible condition.... Kudos to you Tom , you're a brave and remarkable dude!!!!!
My family are literally skin and bones with muscles naturally. None of them are over 5'1" or over 100lbs. Then i was born. I was always overweight from birth. At age 10 I wore an adults woman size 10. By winter that year i was 140lbs. I was always the biggest in my class. I never dieted. I never gave in to the fat jokes. Which were a small amount. Which is why i remember everytime. Each time,was a blow to my self esteem. My family never really made fun of my weight. Only my grandmother. Severe depression ptsd ,anxiety and panic disorders. As an adult at 5"6" I was 277lbs. Got bariatric sleeve surgery 3 years ago. Now im 5'6" at 140lbs. Yes. A bag of bones!! Im extremely thin. I craved this my whole life. Now at 46 years old,I feel like a child. Im in a size xs but in my head im still a 22. I can't win. Im so broken. I don't wanna be in this world anymore.
I can sympathize with you because of my dear sweet daughter’s own struggles with weight and weight loss. Please know you are so much more than what your body size is. You are loved by God and He has a purpose for your life. ❤❤❤
i was super thin in my 20's due to a chronic bowel condition caused by spinal injury.. people were very rude and cruel to me because i looked thin...especially" bigger" ppl who assumed i was anorexic...also, later in life my doctor kindly applied for a disability sticker for me (because of the spinal injury and other conditions) as he was concerned about me trying to walk too far to get into stores. A few times when i used the ticket i was screamed at by able bodied ppl who assumed i didnt have the right to use the disability parking. You shouldn't assume ANYTHING...and check to see if the person u are about to attack has an up to date disability ticket on the car, before u start shouting off your mouth. Just because we look "ok" to u doesn't mean we are.
I'm sorry about your health problems. I was naturally as thin as Ana Ward until my mid-40s. I had been called everything from anorexic, to a heroin addict, to a cancer patient. I was none of those things. I just had a super fast metabolism and never had a big appetite. When the change of life came, my weight normalized, (which I was relieved about, because it shut people up) even though my eating habits didn't change.
I'm only 5ft 4in & when I was in high school (an all girls school), the popular girls started saying both I & a friend (a bit shorter than me) were fat. This lead to the 2 us "dieting", we would compete on a daily basis to see who could eat the least food. We both eventually landed up anorexic. I was just lucky that my mother picked up on this & threatened to have me admitted to hospital & force feed via tubes. I have a weird fear of tubes being inserted into my throat (she didn't know this), so in order to avoid this I started eating again a little at a time. It took me decades to be able to eat properly & even now I cannot eat a standard burger & chips it's just too much food at one time. I still am worried about my weight, but am a healthy weight thanks to my husband who banned us from owning a scale. I'm the lucky one. My friend went on to battle with anorexia for decades. Unfortunately, we lost touch over time, so I'm not sure how her story ended. All of this due to bit**y comments.
I have learned to try and please my self and not other people. I keep a chunky weight cause I love life and good food. I have even lost weight by eating healthy food and small portions! Your comment meant a lot to me! 🥀🥀🥀🥀💕🌜✨
I truly hope you understand that this is a disease not just a sick mind. I suffered for over 30 yrs. Its about Control. Also many eating disorders are because of sexual abuse like myself. Today weigh 145 and struggle everyday with how I think I look in the mirror. Sorry to expel my stuff , just needed to say something
I’m sorry you’ve had to fight this every day but I think your recovery story is brave! Keep strong and stay healthy, I had a great friend with bulimia and she was an alcoholic…eating disorders are the toughest but I love seeing the stories like yours, you are a success! I am sure every day is tough and I wish you continued strength to stay the course! Many hugs.
So sorry, dawn. I hope you’re doing well. You have a heavy burden to carry that was forced on you by someone else. So I just wanted to say I’m wishing you well
I’m going through something like that now in my 70’s. I weigh under 95 lbs while most of my life I’ve weighed 120 to 130. Please keep going. I’d give anything to weigh 145. 🙏
You are so right. I have Hashimoto's disease and gained alot of weight like 70 pounds 12 years ago.. its been a battle trying to lose weight. I was always thin. 120 pounds at 5 ft 6 in. I complain to my doctor all the time nothing i do works except berberine and taking bovine thyroid glandulars. She asked me why I wanted to lose weight so bad. I thought about it for a moment and said that I felt like i was more in control of my life when I am thin.
The worst part of women who deform their bones with corsets is that at a certain point they _need_ to keep wearing it just to support their upper half. Their bones are so misshapen and their muscles are so altered that the corset becomes a brace.
In actual fact, nobody chooses to have an eating disorder ! When someone focuses on themselves by dieting & exercising, this plan can devolve into a mental disorder seeking to control the only thing the person really thinks they can in their life. If they are fortunate to find a way out of this illness, the recovery requires learning to give up the eating disorder by replacing a dangerous coping mechanism with lots of therapy, and getting to the very root causes of how it manifested in the first place. You can’t just tell an anorexic to EAT. Much in the same way, you can’t tell a person suffering from depression to ‘snap out it’.
In my twenties I got into modelling. I am naturally slim, and I have a high metabolism, but I have round buttocks. I was told to "lose weight, otherwise I could be modelling for "fat" people". My first thought, "No way in hell am I going to go on a diet!" The modelling stint didn't last ;-) My heart breaks for these people, especially the ones who ended up with a life of suffering because of callous comments or even a callous, abusive mother, like in one case ...
Good thing u was strong enough to defend yourself...sucks how the industry stressing over what a perfect body gotta look. I get wanting thin ppl but they want it to the extreme.
I followed Eugenia Cooney that I recently discovered through TH-cam videos. Sadly, her fans have called 911, tried interventions for her to go to rehab (which supposedly she did go, but relapsed). Her mother is the one to blame for keeping her in her room and not doing anything to save her dying daughter. Of course Eugenia is on denial and when asked to please take care of herself, she denies and says she's ok. It's sad that we are watching her drifting away and we feel powerless. Her mom is the one taking so many videos of Eugenia. The mom herself is on denial! People on internet are either trolling her, bullying her or want to copy her. This is such a tragedy.
You can see the signs on Eugenia. The lip shrinkage and sunken eyes. I don't think it will be long before she experiences organ failure. It's completely mind boggling as to why her own parents aren't intervening. Her mother seems to encourage it and even exploit her. It's so sad.
BED isn't an eating disorder. Finding comfort in FOOD, controlling WHAT you eat (even if it's poor choices) is still an eating disorder. And actually many people are fat not because of food but because of medical conditions or medications. @@lostdraft
I worked with an anorexic woman when were were in our 20's. We went to a holiday party and took pics. When she looked at them, she was disgusted at "how fat" she looked. Here I am looking at a skeleton and she's still convinced she was fat. She passed away at age 31. So sad that some people refuse to accept the way they are and go thru extreme measures to fit into their definition of beauty.
@juniamcc35 I understand. I guess I used that word for lack of a better way to describe it coming from someone that doesn't have body dismorphia. What I saw in her was a beautiful woman but she didn't see that. And that was just really sad.
My ex-husband was so skinny that people thought he had AIDS or cancer. He simply couldn't gain weight. He was 5'6 & weighed roughly 120 lbs. I always thought he would be anorexic, but he did eat, so.
I worked with a woman who was very thin and people would share their opinions on how she looked and why it was bad. After a day spent shopping we got pizza delivered, I watched her eat an entire large pizza by herself. The thing people don't understand is that anorexia is about having complete control over eating because some other part of your life is out of your control.
That’s part of it but anorexics don’t eat an entire large pizzas sorry. That’s bulimia. There’s a lot you clearly don’t understand but it’s nice you try.
I fell ill after a botched surgery and spent 8 months in the hospital. I lost over 130 pounds (was 230 to start). I ended up on a feeding tube for 3 years and was extremely malnourished. I was diagnosed as failure to thrive as I couldn't even swallow my own saliva. My esophagus atrophied and had to be rebuilt and I had a total gastrectomy w/ partial intestines removed. I lost my hair, all my perfect cavity free teeth began to crumble like chalk and were removed. I've had 33 surgeries in the past 8 years but currently at a healthy weight and can actually eat some food now although I struggle with severe PTSD, age regression and anxiety. I rarely go in public and with over $3+million in medical, losing my home, my flight attendant career, life savings and literally my smile (need $40k for reconstruction surgery). I was 40 when all this started and given a 10 year life expectancy (at the time), I just turned 49 and plan on living a very long life. I am blown away that almost all these women and men still have their teeth since that was one of the first things I lost. I get judged because of not having teeth and my appearance people automatically assume drugs which I have never touched.
Sending you strength and love. I am so sorry for all that you have been through and my wish is that you continue to build strength and a return to full health and vitality. You should be so proud of your warrior spirit to get through all that and still be here fighting. Blessings to you. 🙏🏻♥️✨
Former flight attendant here. So sorry for all you suffered. When you are a flight attendant, everyone expects you to look perfect after a 14'hour day on little sleep. I stressed over everything from my hair to my nails to my lipstick. After being in a serious car accident, and have had 3 major spinal surgeries, I gained a lot of perspective. I couldn't go back to flying, but I got involved with animal care and rescue, and it changed my life so much for the better!
Karen carpenter actually became anorexic due to whichever record producer it was that told her she was fat on camera and that led to her devloping the condition
Yes that is correct she was a shy lady having little confidence in the way she looked . the sad thing was she was so beautiful and her voice ,well what can one say . The Lord Lent her for a while so we could hear an angel . but they al missed her so much in heaven the Lord called her home . Never forgotten Karen Dear nor ever shall you be, You sang for the world Karen including me .
I'm naturally skinny (5'5" height, 109lbs). I can eat whatever I want though I tend to eat healthy by nature. My doctors even encourage a 3,500 calorie a day diet. I don't understand how anyone can starve themself. It's unhealthy and looks awful. I got stressed during my divorce and dropped to 98; it was terrible.
I was skinny all my life up to 32 years old. A doctor put me on an antidepressant called Pamelor (nortryptiline). I gained 25 pounds pretty quickly. I looked so good. People stopped making fun of me.
I feel so bad for most of these people. It's so sad! It's also sad the way some of them got there, by being body shamed. People need to be encouraging. Build up! Don't tear down!
I had the opposite problem. I was naturally skinny and everybody called me skinny. My sister called me toothpick. That hurt be real bad. When I was young I always tried to eat to gain weight. Plus, my dad used the "clean plate club" when we were growing up bc his step dad pushed it on him. Well, I finally started gaining weight after my twenties. Then I was afraid of being overweight. I gained to 167lb. Then I had a hard time losing it. 😢I'm around 140 now and I can't seem to budge, I'm diabetic. Now I feel guilty for leaving food on my plate bc of the "clean plate club".😢
I think it's important too for elementary school teachers to not share too much about dieting. There is still so much "watch what you eat." My autistic son was very impressionable, and early on he picked up his teacher's habit of worrying about her weight so he worried about his weight, and he was tiny! He was in the 7 percentile (lowest weight for his age), and it took a lot of talking about what good health and healthy habits are in order for him to understand that trying not to eat was not a goal for everyone.
Never call someone obese just because they have a little flab! Never call anyone anorexic just because they have a naturally fast metabolism! Just because you don't look perfect, doesn't mean it needs to be fixed!
8:23 _"And in Romania, it's actually better to be a fatty, because it shows your wealth and status."_ ...what?! People, Romania is in the top 25-30% *richest countries in the world* by GDP/capita and this lady became famous around 2010-2011, when Romania was already a member of the *European Union.* You are making it sound like a starving nation, what are you talking about? *I live* in Romania & growing up in the 90s and 2000s, I assure you *everybody* wanted to be thin, and later thin & toned, especially in the summer and especially women. Not to mention that her name is *Ioana* (ioana) Spangenberg, not Loana (or Lana, like you wrote in the chapters) and she's moved to Germany since 2006. Who the heck writes these scripts?! *Massive* dislike from me.👎 Edit: From what I see, this was the *only* country mentioned in the entire video. This just feels gross.
It's actually quite strange how little most of the Westerners know about Eastern / Central Europe, but they have very strong opinions about the countries from that part of the world.
I have struggled with anorexic eating behaviors for over 20 years. What others say really takes a toll. I still work on eating enough and not falling to all the diet commentary. The obsession with being thin makes it hard to eat a normal amount and nourish my body.
You are so brave fighting this horrible disease! And all the media is full with diet tipps and talk about weight loss. I pray that it will get easier for you. I wish you all the best, God bless you!
it will sooner or later fall out and their teeth gets destroyed too. When a person is young the body can put up with an awful lot but later any illness becomes more and more obvious.... If you see an anorexic with thick hair, there are good chances they are wearing a wig, especially if they are above 30 / 35.
The Karen Carpenter story isn’t quite correct. Karen wanted a normal life, with someone to love and be loved by. When she did fall in love, the guy ended up breaking it off with her. Karen, due to depression over losing her guy, having an extremely exhausting career (she was one of the biggest artists of her era) and being a little OCD, felt if she could control her weight she would be able to win her man back. Sadly of course, she didn’t. She lost everything including of course, her life. Such a loss to our music world.
A lot of different things can start someone being anorexic. I had anorexia athletica an obsessive compulsion to over exercise. I lost 30kg in 3 month's and maintained that weight loss for 10 years plus. Anorexia is about control, when there is other things in your life that you cannot control. You control what you put into your mouth. While some of the people on this list, have a genetic condition. But for others it is all about control.
I over exercised, as well. I had several pretty serious stress fractures from running, step aerobics, and ballet. Now that I am older, I have osteoporosis and have fractured my knee and my wrist in less than 11 months. It's great to be physically fit and very slim, but over committing to exercise and dieting can have long term consequences.
I was called fat by my mom and my mom often dieted. I learned about calories and such in health class in 7th grade and decided to stop eating. In 1999 I was in the hospital at 20 years old. I was 5’4” and 58lb. I couldn’t walk. I needed a pacemaker. I lost several teeth and damaged most of the others. I struggled from 13-24 years old and slowly recovered. Now I’m healthy. I have a daughter in college. I’m 46 and 118lb and slim but muscular and fit. My daughter is healthy and I emphasize strength and being kind and smart rather than body shape. I make sure to never praise being thin or skinny. I only say “you look fit or strong”. It’s such a nightmare. You want to eat and know you’re unhealthy but can’t stop. Like a drug.
This a great topic to bring up the importance self love. Children need to learn about human behavior and they have had many experiments on what makes humans do what they do. 1. Only do your very best and never expect more than that from yourself. 2. Love yourself and your uniqueness. 3. Remember that anyone that says things that tries to erode your self esteem doesn't do it for your good. Then disregard anything they say about you. 4. Don't take authentic positive critique as an attack on you or an insult. There can be someone that has more experience than you and can give you pointers to help you get to another level, but not to harm you physically or mentally. That is to help you improve and grow in your talent and interest, or job. You just need to have the confidence in yourself and the experience to see the differences between insults and constructive criticisms. The one issue with this topic on this presentation I have is they blame what others say to you. Nonsense! Life is tough for everyone that lives. No one is unique to embarrassment, pain, suffering, lose, etc. Blaming others is the wrong way to think about things. You need to learn to handle situations that come up and develop a non-emotional and logical way of looking at a situation. Media conditions the public to emotionalize everything and that removes the most important part of your brain: LOGIC! So practice to not be so emotional and even watching movies, take notes, think about the direction, writers, and what are they trying to get you to believe? Is it logical or the correct way to think about something? What is your valued opinion? Your ideas are important too and maybe even more so than the writers of the movie. What is in the background that is subliminal to your brain that you did not even notice? YOU ARE IMPORTANT AND HAVE BRILLIANT AND IMPORTANT IDEAS! LEARN TO EXPRESS THEM AND NOT PARROT WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD BUT THINK DEEPLY AND ALONE ON WHAT YOU VALUE AND THINK IS CORRECT.
Karen Carpenter did seek treatment for anorexia. Unfortunately, there was not enough known about the disorder in the 1980s to help Karen. Karen was also abusing a drug which made her throw up her food. In Karen's case, she needed rest and mental health therapy. The world lost a great singer when she died. She had such a beautiful voice. Herb Albert discovered Karen and Richard Carpenter. When he spoke about Karen he sobbed. I cry when I hear her song "Merry Christmas Darling." What a tragedy to lose her so young. She had a BEAUTIFUL voice 😢
I saw Geote Ami at a “smallest woman in the world” attraction at a fair in New England in the 1990s. Even at my young age, I knew it was wrong for us to be in there looking at her like that, everyone gawking and speaking about her as if she wasn’t there, wasn’t real. I cried…I was only like 7/8years old. It hurt me, I could see that she was real, she smiled with me and looked so kind. No one was treating her as a human. No one was speaking her, only each other- about her. It broke my young heart. I never went in to another attraction like that at the fair…..
Wow that's crazy. I'm sorry you went through that. That was traumatizing I bet! I am really touched though by your compassion at such a young age. This is the type of compassion I'm trying to teach my children. That is a beautiful grace you have. To have such connection to another human beings' suffering. That woman probably saw that you were empathetic to her and I know that probably meant the world to her. You have a beautiful soul. :)
Wow that's crazy. I'm sorry you went through that. That was traumatizing I bet! I am really touched though by your compassion at such a young age. This is the type of compassion I'm trying to teach my children. That is a beautiful grace you have. To have such connection to another human beings' suffering. That woman probably saw that you were empathetic to her and I know that probably meant the world to her. You have a beautiful soul. :)
Wow that's crazy. I'm sorry you went through that. That was traumatizing I bet! I am really touched though by your compassion at such a young age. This is the type of compassion I'm trying to teach my children. That is a beautiful grace you have. To have such connection to another human beings' suffering. That woman probably saw that you were empathetic to her and I know that probably meant the world to her. You have a beautiful soul. :)
The corset women made me think of Kim kardashian getting her small waist by wearing a corset. Edit: just watched the Met Gala and Kim K has an even smaller waist due to the silver corset they made for her. She had to take breathing lessons and looked like she was in pain all night. I don’t get what is beautiful about something so unnatural . Why does she do this?
My children are tall and fit, at 6'2", and 6'3". Folks consider my daughter thin, but my sons fit. They all eat well, exercise, and have never compromised their health.
That really happens, some babies are very small, smaller than other normal babies. There are people out there that are twenty four to twenty five inches at height. I have seen and heard of them on tv and TH-cam. We were all born different in sizes and shapes.
My Mom started to show signs of anorexia when she noticed she had lost 10# while in the hospital for a blood infection. She was never really "fat" outside of a scientific definition, & it terrified my Dad & me. We had to fight to get her to eat enough to get the basic nutrition. I'm morbidly obese, & this also triggered a lot of binges in me, too, on a subconscious level. Thankfully, after only a few months, we were able to get her back on a healthy diet, even if it was still quite sparse for her doctor's liking, until she finally died from other causes.
Two sisters from South America, I think, were models and both died of anorexia. Truly maddening is that the younger sister watched need big sister wither away and died only to repeat the tragedy.
My brother has that condition where he could eat anything and he won't gain weight he is at 115 lbs at 6 ft 1 in and if he eats fast food he loses weight and he's been like that all his life and he's 44 years old and till this day he still is nothing but skin and bones. I am so jealous because I have a thyroid condition and I gain weight by looking at food and I have to take special medication for it which is hard to get because there's only one company in the whole USA that manufactures it.
I would urge people to read the book about the life and death of Karen Carpenter, which she cowrote until her death. She had anorexia and actually recovered from it. Sadly, her subsequent weight gain was too much on her heart and she died of a heart attack while enjoying a Thanksgiving meal with her parents.
There was a chronic addiction to prescription drugs, uppers, and sleepers that contributed to her sad death. I loved the Carpenters growing up in the 70s, so much so that when I left home aged 16, I aquired without permission, my father's copy of The Carpenters greatest hits album. 😮
One time years ago, my narcissistic mother made a negative comment about my weight. I don't recall what it was; I only recall that later, she gave me one of the only apologies she's ever given to me in my life. Her apology? "I'm sorry I said that earlier. I realized that if I were fat, that would hurt my feelings!" Gee, thanks mom. :p You can't control what other people do or say, only how you respond; don't let someone else's demons rule your life. (I'm talking to you, Eugenia.)
To me, all the stories were terrible and sad. I became anorexic in my late teens and early 20s. It took me many years to see it and admit that I was sick. However, I could no longer eat normally. My mother cooked my favorite dishes and I sat at the table, crying quietly to myself and unable to eat. Until one Sunday I couldn't get up or walk. The emergency doctor came late that day, looked at me and shook his head. (I remember it like it was yesterday!) I heard him talking to my boyfriend at the time, but nothing resonated with me. However, the moment he pulled back the blanket and I saw my thin legs (the legs consisted almost entirely of skin and bones) I knew I would die if I didn't finally fight it. I *fought* this and I *did* do it!!! But it took many, many years. Since then I have also been eating foods that I DON'T like but that are healthy. I NEVER want to be in such a terrible situation again. THANK GOD 🙏🏼 I didn't suffer any permanent damage. WHOEVER wants to go on a diet, start with putting the chocolate away and not the meal that is healthy. Do some exercises and stop eating after 6:00 pm. If you feel hungry don't start stuffing yourself but drink a glass full of water - no juice or coke etc. If you like to have some chocolate, get the dark chocolate with 70% and more. They're so many things we can do... ...and ONE MORE thing we can do *DON'T LISTEN TO STUPID IDIOTS. AS LONG AS WE ARE HEALTHY AND FEEL GOOD - WE ARE PERFECT !!!*
We've made some tiny progress in the modelling community. After the tragic death of 2 model sisters (due to self-induced anorexia)... many top designers vowed to never hire anymore size '0' models ever again. Not good enough in my opinion.....(but it's a start!)
As someone who trained heavily in ballet and other dance throughout my life, you either have the right body for ballet or you don't; you can't diet your way into differently-shaped bones, for example, and a big thing with the ideal ballet body has to do with the skeleton. I was told i was too big for professional ballet, and while that really broke my heart, I kinda already knew it. I didn't do anything to change my body, however, because I was already thin/lean and didn't want to get any smaller. But "big" in the ballet world is anything above about 5' tall and 100#, because the male dancers have to be able to easily pick you up and throw you around.
I thought I'd speak up here. It's NOT a matter of "not looking after themselves" - eating disorders are a psychiatric illness. You wouldn't call out someone with Bipolar Disorder or schizophrenia - so why call out someone with an eating disorder? It's related to obsessive compulsive disorder and often triggered by abuse or trauma. These are tormented minds, not a freakshow to be criticized. I know the Pro-Anna (which is what that very ill group call themselves) groups are alarming and heartbreaking. I won't say more on them because giving them too much attention just gives them the attention they want in a very negative way and they deserve better. I'm in recovery from another rare eating disorder (diabulimia, now called T1DE or Type 1 Disordered Eating, which has a 60% fatality rate before the age of 30) - and I have been on wards at the hospital where my fellow sufferers (no matter how they specifically engaged in their own disorder) have passed away. It's soul crushing. Please consider these aspects to this horrific mental illness and have some compassion? Thank you.
The Thinnest women I ever met stood at 5 feet 8 inches and told me she weighed 72 pounds. I met her at a cafeteria in a hospital. She wasn't eating. She was reading and had a bottle of water. The cafeteria was quite full so I asked her if I could sit at her table. One of my arms was in a cast and I tried taking a straw out of the paper package. I asked if she wouldn't mind to help me and she complied and began a conversation with me. During our conversation she asked me if I thought she was pretty. I mentioned her cheeks were 'a bit hollow' but I added, that's probably her make-up. She told me she only had eye makeup on. I saw she was thin even while seated. She was easily 30 years my junior. I joked with her that she would stand out in certain parts of Africa I had visited in my life. When asked why, I told her that in some of the countries there the heavier you were, the more beautiful you were considered. She asked my opinion of what her body looked like and stood up, twirled around and sat back down. She was very, very thin. She asked me for a honest answer. I told her she could stand to gain a few pounds. (this was the JLo era). She asked me if I didn't think women with tiny waists were sexy. I came back with,........but that's for hour glass figures. [That was the most polite way of telling her about T&A]. She came back and told me she was trying to lose another 5 pounds because she thought she was 'still fat'. I was considerate of her mental issue and suggested that she should try to get an agent for modelling opportunities. My thought at the time was that her agent would either tell her she was too thin or that no modelling company would take her because of her thinness. Hopefully, she would try to gain weight. Never saw her again after that brief encounter
Anorexia is a mental illness and part of it is the body dysmorphia side of it. It is less physical and more mental. The brain drives the behaviour which drives the result. Very sad. 🖤
I was the combo anorexic & bulemic as a teen. Thankfully the Army kicked that out of me. Because of doing that to myself during growing years I now have to fight to keep my body from overcompensating and holding all the fat it can.
Some of the people reminded me of the victims of Linda Hazard who was supposed to be curing people, but her only treatment was to starve the women to be point of anarexia .
@@absinthealice yes one had a relative who visited and saw the skeletal body of his sister who was barely clinging on to life. She got exposed and I think opened like one more clinic before being shut down permanently.
On karen Carpenter, she didnt just have problems with her touring. She had a problem with her brother. That was a big issue of why she ended up the way she did.
No one has an eating disorder ''due to their own CHOICES''. It's a very complex mental health issue that doesn't develop in a psychologically healthy person after making a conscious decision. Dangerous in many ways to comment on it like in this video. Also disturbing how a lack of empathy and knowledge is shamelessly portrayed. Really sad actually.
Last year I got ill and struggled to eat. Eventually the doctors found out it was my gall bladder but there was a long waiting list for treatment. Although I never felt thin people started to comment and when I had some blood tests and the doctors told me I was malnurished and might die.
@@nancysmith2874probably UK, I was supposed to have my gallbladder removed in 1990, the day of the surgery I was informed my operation had been cancelled because of a bed shortage.... I'm still waiting, thank God I found out what triggers the attacks so I can avoid them.
I remember from 12 to 15 or 16 i was having real issues getting something to eat in my mouth. I mean, i was raised in what is called a normal family... we didn't have so many problems with me growing up. I dont even remember what triggered this but i was having a hard time eating and i was always screamed at and punished for not eating.... then i found out something that worked i still do to this day and i am almost 35 with 2 kids and i weight around 53kg. I started to push myself into feeling the flavor of food i was eating and everytime before eating, i would drink a big glass of water, that gives me the feeling that i need to be able to actually swallow some food. I am healthy and doing fine now, but i cannot forget how hard was for me to start somewhere while noone was giving me any advice but scream and punish. Not many have the support they need, be always kind and smile to people, because as well as bad words, kindness and smile can build a person up to be their best. Sadly, we live in a world where we do need the people to be their best and not only give their best. Love from Germany!❤
You're absolutely wrong about Karen Carpenter. It wasn't her schedule that made her Anorexic. Which doesn't even make sense? SMH I'd like to know one person who became anorexic because of their work schedule. That has to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard It was a journalist who wrote about her and her brother. In the article, he wrote that the act was her brother and his "chubby little sister." She, of course, read that and was horrified. It led her down that destructive path that, unfortunately, took her life.. People really have to think about their words and how it will affect the person it's about. 🙂🇨🇦✌️
I WAS ANOREXIC WHEN I WAS 18 YEARS OLD BUT THANKS GOD I WAS ABLE TO STOP AND EAT LIKE A NORMAL PERSON AGAIN, TO TELL THE TRUTH I DONT EVEN COUNT CALORIES ANYMORE, ITS EXTREMELY STRESSFULL, SO, IM NOT FAT BUT IF THEY CALL ME FAT I DONT GIVE A DAMM, NOBODY HAS THE POWER TO TELL ME IF IM FAT OR NOT I DONT DEPEND OF PEOPLE TO BE HAPPY
So very sad. Despite whatever physic a person has, there are always people out there that dwell on negative comments. Devastating comments that alter others. It is so much easier to emphasize the positive.
I really hope the ones suffering with this disorder are able to get the help they need; the ones who still can. I had issues with anorexia as a teen/young adult. (Since treated and now maintain weight.) When I called myself recovered, a counselor told me that, "anorexia is like alcoholism, in that you'll always be in recovery." I thought I've maintained a healthy weight for years, so I was fine. But he asked- "you still have those thoughts though, don't you?" Damn, I guess he's right... 😢
OH HELL NO!!!!!! I am a 71 year old woman that is overweight. And you know what? I don't care what ANYONE SAYS OR THINKS. I have been losing weight, BUT I'M NOT TRYING TO. I haven't weighed myself in a while, but the last time i had, I had lost 79 pounds. I'll take it. But i don't a rats ass what people think. I dont live their life they can't live my live.
My ex-husband told his second wife that if she gained weight, she couldn't have her allowance and car. She then taught my daughter how to stay "thin" because that was what you should be to get a boyfriend or husband. My current husband and I struggled with her when we got her and put her in therapy and hospital. It was devastating. She was 15 when we got her. Now, at 27, she has beaten the body dismorphia that my ex taught her.
To corsets, most people that did wear corsets in the old days had ways to fake their tiny waste. They used all kinds of things, like hipcovers to make the hips look wider. (You can find Bernadette Banner for that). I thank you for making this video the way you do. It has become a very educational video for all kinds of people. I have shared it.
Jesus imagine having a condition that forces you to be anorexic then in trying to combat it, your body throws youa Type-2 curveball. That's just rotton. Poor guy but I admire his strength!
Unfortunately the woman who didn't want her daughter to grow-up was most likely suffering from a mental illness. Mental health or lack thereof is no easy fix. Such a waste of human 😢 potential 😢😢😢
People say that but forget the ribs have to come out thru skin. The scarring would be HUGE. Huge as in spine to the end of the rib being removed. Not a thin, narrow scar either. It would be about 3-4 inches wide. Buy a whole chicken. Remove a rib. The bird will be a mess. Keep going, do a dozen of them over time. It's really not going to get much smaller. A bit tidier but not much smaller. Imagine that mess on a human being. Yeah, a little cover stick is going to cover that.
These are all people we know through media. For normal people, we can go through this without trying. I went through average size 10 UK, to size 6 UK in 3 months. Was through being misdiagnosed on the NHS and getting the wrong meds. Really, I was a skeleton with flesh, just like Eugene. Not my choice, but through meds. Docs told me I had 5 years to live if I took the meds, 2 years if I refused the meds. I refused the meds as they made me a lunatic when I tried them. Ok, to cut a really long story short, it is now 27 years later and I am still here
A friend of mine was dating this guy and one night in the bar she overheard him saying that she had a fat ass(which she didn’t!) and from that night on she stopped eating and ended up losing so much weight that she had to go into a dietary unit in a local hospital to save her life! Never say anything about anyone because nobody is perfect! Px
That’s so sad ❤
Because she thought more about what others thought about her than what she thought about herself.
I'm scared to watch the end of this video as you might feature the vending machine with used little girls panties in it or n ir
Indeed
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I remember when I was about 23 years old. My husband started having an affair with my best friend. I would come home from work and there she would be " washing, she would barrow my washing machine to wash her cloths. I felt so totally out lacking in control that I decided to lose weight because I could control my eating. I got down to 99lbs 5ft4in. tall. I finally felt like I had some control over what was happening. Anyway I looked in the mirror one day and said enough. I got a divorce and started eating again. I'm now 70 and have never remarried.
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Amen, sister! You are an amazing survivor, and sharing your story might just save another life someday. ❤
Awesome, Karla!!!!!proud of you!
I was 103 at 5'4" when I started college in the 70's but I didn't feel that I was too thin - but back then people were thinner anyway. Now that I'm 60 lbs heavier, I wish I was that weight. I found out my husband was a serial cheater and I too have never remarried.
You are truly a role model for young women!!!! So much love to you, Karla! You are absolutely amazing and fierce!!!! ❤
Eugenia isn’t in recovery. She said in a livestream last week she will never be the person she was 10 years ago. She doesn’t want help.
That’s why he said she relapsed
@@Cabbage105 but she was never in recovery. Her mother signed her out of that 5150 within a few days. She was forced to go. That’s not being in recovery. She didn’t relapse, she’s always been full force into this disease.
But from ten years ago… she’s relapsed lol
But she was trying to recover after the 5150, she put on a few pounds and in her morning routine she was making breakfast and talking in another video about getting better. But very quickly she started losing weight again@@lynda_marie2857
Does she not know she's going to die
The problem isn’t that we want Eugenia banned so that she can get help as much as we would like her to stop influencing younger girls to be anoxeric!
Exactly!
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Mental disorder is not spreading by marketing! You either have it not but it's not a contagious disease. You don't get it by watching skeletons or anatomy books should be banned by the very reason!
I mean, better Eugenia than Lizzo
@@meowshano. Anorexia has a higher death rate than obesity with lesser chance of a full recovery. Stop this.
My Mom had a doctor years ago tell her she was fat at 95 lbs. That doctor didn't know Momma had been big before she went to nursing school. My Dad and I begged her for years to get over 100. She would then another doctor would make a comment about her size. It wasn't the reason she died in 2022 but her malnutrition played a big role. She was in the hospital to get a feeding tube because of her severe gastro paralysis and acid reflux. Her gastro doctor kept trying to force her to eat and she aspirated which led to pneumonia. That's what's killed her.
This is 1000% a lie, there is no way a doctor would say a 43kg person is fat
wtf !!!!!! those doctors SUCK. may your mom rest in peace.
95 is way too skinny I'm 186 pounds just because I'm swollen some of it will go down by tomorrow I'm 5'3
OMG... How horrible that must've been for you guys
95 is ok when you're only 4 foot 9.... in your younger years. As a woman ages whatever her height and bmi might be, our metabolism naturally slows and our body starts to go into the middle life stage and things such as menopause and hormonal changes will greatly impact your weight and body shape. Shame on those doctors. It sounds awfully uneducated to say such a thing to a grown woman.
Sigh. I'm very sorry for your loss dear.
That’s all it takes. One off the cuff remark. I will never forget the day Karen Carpenter died. A once beautiful, healthy, very successful woman with an angel’s voice was told she looked chubby and that was it. She fell straight into the hell that is anorexia. I still miss her perfect pitch voice and feel sad for the kind of life she might have had. God Bless, Karen. 🦋
The most horrifying part of these stories was the fact a few of them became models. Now that is troubling.
respect my acrotomophilia. some people like rich overweight unethical people. some like skinny unhealthy bone strucutre. we dont decide atraction, alot of women like rich overweight unethical men.
we have to respect thier preferentism! overweight unhealthy men and women
underweight unhealthy men and women!
everyone for everyone! skinny men whining, skinny women whining, obese men whininign, obese women whining!
and all other variation
I'd say the fat acceptance models are more concerning
Not they re swinging the opposite. Mid size or large models . Not healthful either way.
Karen Carpenter had baby chub that she was told to lose it. She ended up being anorexic.
@roxanne1092 skinny people on average live longer than the fats
Sadess by far was Karen Carpenter. That glorious voice taken from us way to soon. I wish she could have thrived from those who loved her, but she looked in the mirror and couldn't see her beauty at all. Her music still saddens me, while bringing me joy. RIP beautiful soul.❤
She never got the approval from her mother who treated her awful and praise her bother!
@@brendasims4780 I didn't know that. She was at her mothers' house when she died. Karma. RIP
gotta respect her karenism
I was on my way back to work after lunch, when I heard on the radio that Karen had passed away. I started sobbing, looking a total mess when I got back to work. Loved her beautiful, melodic voice! Such a tragic loss to the world...just because some jerk wrote an article about the Carpenters and mentioned that Karen was "chubby"! Shame on them!! Miss Karen immensely!!
I can't bear to listen to Karen Carpenter any more. It just makes me so sad to hear her. I grew up with the Carpenters. Poor woman was, sadly, so unable to appreciate herself.
My sister died of anorexia/bulaemia. She tried to get over it but she had damaged her organs and died when she was 40. I still miss her.
Eating disorders are so much more than wanting to be thin , it's extremely difficult to recover from them .
. People who anorexic tend to be people who are perfectionist and the mind set is just like some who has a addiction. The difference is instead of abusing the drug you are not eating and when you lose weight that give you sense of control over something in your life. Then you get to the point you basically get addicted to dieting and tell yourself you a loser if you have a extra green bean. Then the longer you continue the path, the more it just sort takes over your daily thought and actions. It is differently a complex mental illiness and most people who lose weight are not going to become anorexic. Just like somebody who tries a Percocet the first time after an injury will not just become a addict or have a glass of wine become an alcoholic. What happen is the person already has the mental problem and then those drug or in this case lack of food give the person a feel or control or escape from emotions. To get to the point you are actually anorexic, you have a lot of mess up thinking going on. Most of the time when people fall into addiction they usually have something that has happen to them in there past that they have just tried to cover up and not really dealt with it. I could be something like parent getting divorce and not understand or realizing how that may have effected someone more then they thougnt.
nope it can be easy. I went from bmi 14 to bmi 25 within half a year after a threat from mom. Now i just dont want to have a child body w granny face lol
i remember girls in the eighties giving themselves eating disorders by barfing after meals, etc, trying to be special.
Amen. I have an eating disorder. I use to binge eat when I was younger and now I have to force myself to eat or make something super delicious so I will just eat. Wish I was normal
@@JAM661 Thank you for your insight. It really is a mental disorder. I had a very unhappy and verbally taunting mother. I had very low self esteem. I believe the anorexia I developed was a way of having some control over my life. At the same time I felt substandard and wished to be invisible in a way. I sought help when I was down to 87 pounds and was beginning to have some vision anomalies and did not menstruate for over a year’s time. I am a healthy 82 years old now, and have maintained my ideal weight of 102 to 105 for decades even after giving birth to my son when I was in my mid thirties. There is a difference between living to eat, and eating to live.
Thank you for covering Eugenia Cooney on this list. She is a real danger to herself and to anyone who looks up to her.
I totally agree. I worry about how many people who have ED, especially young women, who go down that rabbit hole.😢
I agree and shouldn’t have a TH-cam channel where she flaunts her anorexia! It’s horrific!
I haven’t searched her lately on TH-cam, I’m praying she’s still alive 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💔💔💔
@@CarolSchlickshe's still alive and looking even thinner than ever. she can barely move herself around and she's still in complete denial about her situation
trust me, you dont wanna see how bad she is rn. She honestly doesnt have a whole lots of time left and it shows :(@@CarolSchlick
Why hide Lizzy's blind eye ?!! Lizzy is the most amazing woman and human being who has a condition through fault of her own and despite it, she is an inspiration to watch and listen to and to take life advice from.
Who ever covered her blind eye in the video, don't ! She makes no attempt to cover her eye, neither should anyone else.
I couldn't understand why that was covered either. She is truly an inspiration. I believe she started being a motivational speaker after being called the ugliest women alive by some foul person on TH-cam , in 2006 when she was just 17. She speaks out about bullying.
Lizzy truly is a sweetheart. Sadly, people can be extremely mean and insensitive which I wish they would think instead of saying such horrible things to her. They should read about her disorder so they would understand before judging.
@@RobinMarconeCassidyRN Agree. That woman is gorgeous, she may not have stunning looks but what she lost in looks she gained 10-fold in personality, warmth and humanity. She puts many humans to shame .
@@mmac-fr5xu What a kind thing to say! I only wish Lizzy gets to read your comment. She needs to hear exactly what people see when they look at her instead of being judged. I also agree with you🙏
Ikr. Im confused. It's so strange that they blurred it❤
I feel the need to clarify something. In the medical world, anorexia refers to a person who is uncommonly thin, regardless of the cause. For example, the people profiled here who have conditions that don't allow their bodies to store fat, are anorexic because they are extremely thin. Anorexia nervosa is a psychological disorder that is the cause of a persons extreme thinness, such as in the case of Karen Carpenter and some of the others in this video. I don't think anyone with dwarfism belongs on this list unless they are also extremely underweight for their size.
yeah i knew a girl who was naturally rlly big and became “average” weight and she almost died
It makes me REALLY mad when morbidly obese people in the Fat Acceptance Movement say they "have anorexia" (*cough* Tess Holiday *cough*) because they feel like they have to restrict their eating (when they don't).
Has nothing to do with thin. it means prolonged loss of appetite
(a-nuh-REK-see-uh) An abnormal loss of the appetite for food. Anorexia can be caused by cancer, AIDS, a mental disorder (i.e., anorexia nervosa), or other diseases.
This is a good point to remember, but just to clarify, the term anorexia refers to lack of appetite, it doesn’t have anything to do with being thin. A fat person that hasn’t been eating bc of lack of appetite bc of illness or other reason is anorexic. The “nervosa” means it’s a disorder. Regardless, the point being made is important and I’m extremely surprised and disappointed that this program got it wrong.
i'm a 14 year old biological female. when i was 12, almost 13, i began having stomach pain and nausea relating to a chronic condition due to a birth defect. as a result, i didnt eat much. my stomach shrank. at the time, i was a good weight, around 115 and standing at 5"2. that was october 2022. by april, i was 96 pounds and was not eating lunch or snack at school. i ended up just not bringing food and giving my school lunches to my (at the time) boyfriend. he didn't seem too worried....maybe a red flag.
anyways, my stomach shrank and i would barely eat breakfast. i had these chocolate protein shakes and i ended up throwing them up in the kitchen sink because i would brush my teeth and trigger my gag reflex. it was horrible. but, after going on probiotics and prebiotics, i began to heal and eat more. what also didn't help with my weight was that i had an undiagnosed injury (despite going to 5 doctors for it AND physical therapy) and the injury lasted 8 months. not in shape, not gaining weight, wasn't eating. recipe for disaster.
i hope eugenia gets the help she needs......she should realize her worth. she's a human being and all humans matter. i feel horrible for the other people on this list, they don't/didn't deserve what happened to them.
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@@jsg2801 No need to state it - other than to be plain nasty or more likely because you are.
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Well that Romanian lass didn't look that skinny or that shape in that wedding photo, there's no way she's that shape naturally
She's either had ribs removed or she's used corset's for a long time, she may be naturally slim but the drastic hour glass waist isn't
It's all disgusting and very sad .how did we ever get the idea no fat looks good..if you're that way that's one thing but tbh for most people to find anorexic people attractive I just don't see it
Let's see... there's a spine, muscles supporting the spine, intestines with food trying to get through, blood vessels trying to get nutrients out of the intestines, blood vessels trying to get nutrients and oxygen to the pelvis and legs. How does all this get stuffed in there?!😮
That Romanian lass is first of all living in *Germany* for he past 20 years, her name is Ioana not Loana, and in Romania *people do not like to be fat to show off "wealth and status".* What an *absolute* nonsense.
Romania is in the top 30% richest countries of the world, at an economic level similar to Poland and I am *tired* of this bullshit people spew about my country.
It is also *not* extremely corrupt acc to international statistics - countries like Hungary and Bulgaria rank worse than it in the EU, and *definitely not* a place to come and traffic women. This is *so* frustrating, when other countries so similar to us get mostly praise while we are *constantly* scapegoated & demonised. Pathetic
Nobody said anything ill about all Romanian's or Romania , I was just saying the lass wasn't that shape naturally that's all, I didn't dis either people or place
If the lass had been Irish I would have said the same about that Irish lass
@@ginnied7346 I was talking about what was said in the video.
I really admire the determination of Tom Staniford (first guy), who inherited a rare and terrible condition.... Kudos to you Tom , you're a brave and remarkable dude!!!!!
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He needs a carnivore diet.
My family are literally skin and bones with muscles naturally. None of them are over 5'1" or over 100lbs. Then i was born. I was always overweight from birth. At age 10 I wore an adults woman size 10. By winter that year i was 140lbs. I was always the biggest in my class. I never dieted. I never gave in to the fat jokes. Which were a small amount. Which is why i remember everytime. Each time,was a blow to my self esteem. My family never really made fun of my weight. Only my grandmother. Severe depression ptsd ,anxiety and panic disorders. As an adult at 5"6" I was 277lbs. Got bariatric sleeve surgery 3 years ago. Now im 5'6" at 140lbs. Yes. A bag of bones!! Im extremely thin. I craved this my whole life. Now at 46 years old,I feel like a child. Im in a size xs but in my head im still a 22. I can't win. Im so broken. I don't wanna be in this world anymore.
I can sympathize with you because of my dear sweet daughter’s own struggles with weight and weight loss. Please know you are so much more than what your body size is. You are loved by God and He has a purpose for your life. ❤❤❤
i was super thin in my 20's due to a chronic bowel condition caused by spinal injury.. people were very rude and cruel to me because i looked thin...especially" bigger" ppl who assumed i was anorexic...also, later in life my doctor kindly applied for a disability sticker for me (because of the spinal injury and other conditions) as he was concerned about me trying to walk too far to get into stores. A few times when i used the ticket i was screamed at by able bodied ppl who assumed i didnt have the right to use the disability parking.
You shouldn't assume ANYTHING...and check to see if the person u are about to attack has an up to date disability ticket on the car, before u start shouting off your mouth. Just because we look "ok" to u doesn't mean we are.
"Hidden disabilities" can be quite the nuisance. You park in a handicapped parking space & get many dirty looks because you look "normal".
I'm sorry about your health problems. I was naturally as thin as Ana Ward until my mid-40s. I had been called everything from anorexic, to a heroin addict, to a cancer patient. I was none of those things. I just had a super fast metabolism and never had a big appetite. When the change of life came, my weight normalized, (which I was relieved about, because it shut people up) even though my eating habits didn't change.
@@amiblueful When I went through the change, I lost weight. I'm 5'11" and weigh 125 pounds. (Jan Griffiths).
I'm only 5ft 4in & when I was in high school (an all girls school), the popular girls started saying both I & a friend (a bit shorter than me) were fat. This lead to the 2 us "dieting", we would compete on a daily basis to see who could eat the least food. We both eventually landed up anorexic. I was just lucky that my mother picked up on this & threatened to have me admitted to hospital & force feed via tubes. I have a weird fear of tubes being inserted into my throat (she didn't know this), so in order to avoid this I started eating again a little at a time. It took me decades to be able to eat properly & even now I cannot eat a standard burger & chips it's just too much food at one time. I still am worried about my weight, but am a healthy weight thanks to my husband who banned us from owning a scale. I'm the lucky one. My friend went on to battle with anorexia for decades. Unfortunately, we lost touch over time, so I'm not sure how her story ended. All of this due to bit**y comments.
I'm so sorry you were subjected to those bitchy comments. People are horrid.
I have learned to try and please my self and not other people. I keep a chunky weight cause I love life and good food. I have even lost weight by eating healthy food and small portions! Your comment meant a lot to me! 🥀🥀🥀🥀💕🌜✨
People are evil and very cruel. Have you tried looking up your friend on social media like Facebook? Glad you’re well.
I have a similar story but my friend didn't make it.😢
I never did and still don't understand why people like these that put others down and ridicule are popular.
I truly hope you understand that this is a disease not just a sick mind. I suffered for over 30 yrs. Its about Control. Also many eating disorders are because of sexual abuse like myself. Today weigh 145 and struggle everyday with how I think I look in the mirror. Sorry to expel my stuff , just needed to say something
I’m sorry you’ve had to fight this every day but I think your recovery story is brave! Keep strong and stay healthy, I had a great friend with bulimia and she was an alcoholic…eating disorders are the toughest but I love seeing the stories like yours, you are a success! I am sure every day is tough and I wish you continued strength to stay the course! Many hugs.
So sorry, dawn. I hope you’re doing well. You have a heavy burden to carry that was forced on you by someone else. So I just wanted to say I’m wishing you well
I’m going through something like that now in my 70’s. I weigh under 95 lbs while most of my life I’ve weighed 120 to 130. Please keep going. I’d give anything to weigh 145. 🙏
Thank you for being brave enough to share.
You are so right. I have Hashimoto's disease and gained alot of weight like 70 pounds 12 years ago.. its been a battle trying to lose weight. I was always thin. 120 pounds at 5 ft 6 in. I complain to my doctor all the time nothing i do works except berberine and taking bovine thyroid glandulars. She asked me why I wanted to lose weight so bad. I thought about it for a moment and said that I felt like i was more in control of my life when I am thin.
The worst part of women who deform their bones with corsets is that at a certain point they _need_ to keep wearing it just to support their upper half. Their bones are so misshapen and their muscles are so altered that the corset becomes a brace.
In actual fact, nobody chooses to have an eating disorder ! When someone focuses on themselves by dieting & exercising, this plan can devolve into a mental disorder seeking to control the only thing the person really thinks they can in their life. If they are fortunate to find a way out of this illness, the recovery requires learning to give up the eating disorder by replacing a dangerous coping mechanism with lots of therapy, and getting to the very root causes of how it manifested in the first place. You can’t just tell an anorexic to EAT. Much in the same way, you can’t tell a person suffering from depression to ‘snap out it’.
In my twenties I got into modelling. I am naturally slim, and I have a high metabolism, but I have round buttocks. I was told to "lose weight, otherwise I could be modelling for "fat" people". My first thought, "No way in hell am I going to go on a diet!" The modelling stint didn't last ;-)
My heart breaks for these people, especially the ones who ended up with a life of suffering because of callous comments or even a callous, abusive mother, like in one case ...
I don't understand modelling... they want very thin models, and then, put fat back by photoshop, because too skinny doesn't look beautiful...
Good thing u was strong enough to defend yourself...sucks how the industry stressing over what a perfect body gotta look. I get wanting thin ppl but they want it to the extreme.
It’s not natural.
You are mentally very strong.... good for you !!!
@@marthas.4456 thank you :-)
I followed Eugenia Cooney that I recently discovered through TH-cam videos. Sadly, her fans have called 911, tried interventions for her to go to rehab (which supposedly she did go, but relapsed). Her mother is the one to blame for keeping her in her room and not doing anything to save her dying daughter. Of course Eugenia is on denial and when asked to please take care of herself, she denies and says she's ok. It's sad that we are watching her drifting away and we feel powerless. Her mom is the one taking so many videos of Eugenia. The mom herself is on denial! People on internet are either trolling her, bullying her or want to copy her. This is such a tragedy.
You can see the signs on Eugenia. The lip shrinkage and sunken eyes. I don't think it will be long before she experiences organ failure. It's completely mind boggling as to why her own parents aren't intervening. Her mother seems to encourage it and even exploit her. It's so sad.
It''s all about the money. The more freakish she looks the more cash she has for her mom.
Just remember, anorexia isn't about the weight los it's about control having over that 1 thing.
Remember the same for those who over-eat.
@@NadoriKaija yep, BED is also a serious eating disorder
BED isn't an eating disorder. Finding comfort in FOOD, controlling WHAT you eat (even if it's poor choices) is still an eating disorder. And actually many people are fat not because of food but because of medical conditions or medications.
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@@NadoriKaija BED stands for Binge Eating Disorder so yes, it is an eating disorder.
@@NadoriKaija it's not a disorder until it affects your life significantly. by your logic, more than half the global population has an eating disorder
I worked with an anorexic woman when were were in our 20's. We went to a holiday party and took pics. When she looked at them, she was disgusted at "how fat" she looked. Here I am looking at a skeleton and she's still convinced she was fat. She passed away at age 31. So sad that some people refuse to accept the way they are and go thru extreme measures to fit into their definition of beauty.
It's not about ideas of beauty . It is a very complex illness .
So true I'm a healthy 65. Year old weigh 68 kilos ...I love who I and eat well...
But it's not "refusing". There's no real choice when you have body dysmorohia. It is a DISEASE.
@juniamcc35 I understand. I guess I used that word for lack of a better way to describe it coming from someone that doesn't have body dismorphia. What I saw in her was a beautiful woman but she didn't see that. And that was just really sad.
My ex-husband was so skinny that people thought he had AIDS or cancer. He simply couldn't gain weight. He was 5'6 & weighed roughly 120 lbs. I always thought he would be anorexic, but he did eat, so.
My ex was 6’0 and 120 pounds my other ex was 6’4 and 130 pounds
I worked with a woman who was very thin and people would share their opinions on how she looked and why it was bad. After a day spent shopping we got pizza delivered, I watched her eat an entire large pizza by herself. The thing people don't understand is that anorexia is about having complete control over eating because some other part of your life is out of your control.
One of my sisters looks like a skeleton in skin barely. I think she looks awful but she thinks she looks sexy. Horrid!
They have body dysmorphia and don’t know how to deal with it. Therapy is a good start!
That’s part of it but anorexics don’t eat an entire large pizzas sorry. That’s bulimia. There’s a lot you clearly don’t understand but it’s nice you try.
@@zhaviyah84Here you are, again.
@@zhaviyah84 anorexics can binge too
I fell ill after a botched surgery and spent 8 months in the hospital. I lost over 130 pounds (was 230 to start). I ended up on a feeding tube for 3 years and was extremely malnourished. I was diagnosed as failure to thrive as I couldn't even swallow my own saliva. My esophagus atrophied and had to be rebuilt and I had a total gastrectomy w/ partial intestines removed. I lost my hair, all my perfect cavity free teeth began to crumble like chalk and were removed. I've had 33 surgeries in the past 8 years but currently at a healthy weight and can actually eat some food now although I struggle with severe PTSD, age regression and anxiety. I rarely go in public and with over $3+million in medical, losing my home, my flight attendant career, life savings and literally my smile (need $40k for reconstruction surgery). I was 40 when all this started and given a 10 year life expectancy (at the time), I just turned 49 and plan on living a very long life.
I am blown away that almost all these women and men still have their teeth since that was one of the first things I lost. I get judged because of not having teeth and my appearance people automatically assume drugs which I have never touched.
Sending you strength and love. I am so sorry for all that you have been through and my wish is that you continue to build strength and a return to full health and vitality.
You should be so proud of your warrior spirit to get through all that and still be here fighting. Blessings to you. 🙏🏻♥️✨
Former flight attendant here. So sorry for all you suffered.
When you are a flight attendant, everyone expects you to look perfect after a 14'hour day on little sleep.
I stressed over everything from my hair to my nails to my lipstick.
After being in a serious car accident, and have had 3 major spinal surgeries, I gained a lot of perspective. I couldn't go back to flying, but I got involved with animal care and rescue, and it changed my life so much for the better!
Very sas😢
Karen carpenter actually became anorexic due to whichever record producer it was that told her she was fat on camera and that led to her devloping the condition
Yes that is correct she was a shy lady having little confidence in the way she looked . the sad thing was she was so beautiful and her voice ,well what can one say . The Lord Lent her for a while so we could hear an angel . but they al missed her so much in heaven the Lord called her home .
Never forgotten Karen Dear nor ever shall you be, You sang for the world Karen including me .
The amount of horrible judgmental comments and victim blaming and shaming rips my heart
I want to point out that eating disorders are often times part of mental illness.
I'm naturally skinny (5'5" height, 109lbs). I can eat whatever I want though I tend to eat healthy by nature. My doctors even encourage a 3,500 calorie a day diet. I don't understand how anyone can starve themself. It's unhealthy and looks awful. I got stressed during my divorce and dropped to 98; it was terrible.
I was skinny all my life up to 32 years old. A doctor put me on an antidepressant called Pamelor (nortryptiline). I gained 25 pounds pretty quickly. I looked so good. People stopped making fun of me.
I would like to donate my fat to help these people. I believe I could help at least 20 of them.
It's a mental health issue, and it's alot about the people wanting control to the extreme.
I feel so bad for most of these people. It's so sad! It's also sad the way some of them got there, by being body shamed. People need to be encouraging. Build up! Don't tear down!
I had the opposite problem. I was naturally skinny and everybody called me skinny. My sister called me toothpick. That hurt be real bad. When I was young I always tried to eat to gain weight. Plus, my dad used the "clean plate club" when we were growing up bc his step dad pushed it on him. Well, I finally started gaining weight after my twenties. Then I was afraid of being overweight. I gained to 167lb. Then I had a hard time losing it. 😢I'm around 140 now and I can't seem to budge, I'm diabetic. Now I feel guilty for leaving food on my plate bc of the "clean plate club".😢
I think it's important too for elementary school teachers to not share too much about dieting. There is still so much "watch what you eat." My autistic son was very impressionable, and early on he picked up his teacher's habit of worrying about her weight so he worried about his weight, and he was tiny! He was in the 7 percentile (lowest weight for his age), and it took a lot of talking about what good health and healthy habits are in order for him to understand that trying not to eat was not a goal for everyone.
Never call someone obese just because they have a little flab! Never call anyone anorexic just because they have a naturally fast metabolism! Just because you don't look perfect, doesn't mean it needs to be fixed!
8:23 _"And in Romania, it's actually better to be a fatty, because it shows your wealth and status."_
...what?! People, Romania is in the top 25-30% *richest countries in the world* by GDP/capita and this lady became famous around 2010-2011, when Romania was already a member of the *European Union.* You are making it sound like a starving nation, what are you talking about?
*I live* in Romania & growing up in the 90s and 2000s, I assure you *everybody* wanted to be thin, and later thin & toned, especially in the summer and especially women.
Not to mention that her name is *Ioana* (ioana) Spangenberg, not Loana (or Lana, like you wrote in the chapters) and she's moved to Germany since 2006.
Who the heck writes these scripts?! *Massive* dislike from me.👎
Edit: From what I see, this was the *only* country mentioned in the entire video. This just feels gross.
Years ago in China it was a belief it your child was fat it showed you had wealth because you had money for all the good things in life
It's actually quite strange how little most of the Westerners know about Eastern / Central Europe, but they have very strong opinions about the countries from that part of the world.
@@marthas.4456 Yeah, they really do seem far removed...
I have struggled with anorexic eating behaviors for over 20 years. What others say really takes a toll. I still work on eating enough and not falling to all the diet commentary. The obsession with being thin makes it hard to eat a normal amount and nourish my body.
You are so brave fighting this horrible disease! And all the media is full with diet tipps and talk about weight loss.
I pray that it will get easier for you. I wish you all the best, God bless you!
Indulge in foods and tastes and give good energy out, it will even itself out... and remember being thing is not nice.
What amazes me being so thin does not seem to affect their hair, one would think their hair would start to fall out.
Eventually I would think the thyroid would get messed up.
Yes, my hair did begin to get thin.
Eugenia hair was affected and a lot get extensions/wigs as a result
it will sooner or later fall out and their teeth gets destroyed too. When a person is young the body can put up with an awful lot but later any illness becomes more and more obvious.... If you see an anorexic with thick hair, there are good chances they are wearing a wig, especially if they are above 30 / 35.
It does have effect
The Karen Carpenter story isn’t quite correct. Karen wanted a normal life, with someone to love and be loved by. When she did fall in love, the guy ended up breaking it off with her. Karen, due to depression over losing her guy, having an extremely exhausting career (she was one of the biggest artists of her era) and being a little OCD, felt if she could control her weight she would be able to win her man back. Sadly of course, she didn’t. She lost everything including of course, her life. Such a loss to our music world.
A lot of different things can start someone being anorexic.
I had anorexia athletica an obsessive compulsion to over exercise. I lost 30kg in 3 month's and maintained that weight loss for 10 years plus.
Anorexia is about control, when there is other things in your life that you cannot control. You control what you put into your mouth. While some of the people on this list, have a genetic condition. But for others it is all about control.
S/a trauma, health conditions.
But yes for some it's pure control, for some reason.
I over exercised, as well. I had several pretty serious stress fractures from running, step aerobics, and ballet. Now that I am older, I have osteoporosis and have fractured my knee and my wrist in less than 11 months.
It's great to be physically fit and very slim, but over committing to exercise and dieting can have long term consequences.
I was called fat by my mom and my mom often dieted. I learned about calories and such in health class in 7th grade and decided to stop eating. In 1999 I was in the hospital at 20 years old. I was 5’4” and 58lb. I couldn’t walk. I needed a pacemaker. I lost several teeth and damaged most of the others. I struggled from 13-24 years old and slowly recovered. Now I’m healthy. I have a daughter in college. I’m 46 and 118lb and slim but muscular and fit. My daughter is healthy and I emphasize strength and being kind and smart rather than body shape. I make sure to never praise being thin or skinny. I only say “you look fit or strong”. It’s such a nightmare. You want to eat and know you’re unhealthy but can’t stop. Like a drug.
This a great topic to bring up the importance self love. Children need to learn about human behavior and they have had many experiments on what makes humans do what they do.
1. Only do your very best and never expect more than that from yourself.
2. Love yourself and your uniqueness.
3. Remember that anyone that says things that tries to erode your self esteem doesn't do it for your good. Then disregard anything they say about you.
4. Don't take authentic positive critique as an attack on you or an insult. There can be someone that has more experience than you and can give you pointers to help you get to another level, but not to harm you physically or mentally. That is to help you improve and grow in your talent and interest, or job. You just need to have the confidence in yourself and the experience to see the differences between insults and constructive criticisms.
The one issue with this topic on this presentation I have is they blame what others say to you. Nonsense! Life is tough for everyone that lives. No one is unique to embarrassment, pain, suffering, lose, etc. Blaming others is the wrong way to think about things. You need to learn to handle situations that come up and develop a non-emotional and logical way of looking at a situation.
Media conditions the public to emotionalize everything and that removes the most important part of your brain: LOGIC!
So practice to not be so emotional and even watching movies, take notes, think about the direction, writers, and what are they trying to get you to believe? Is it logical or the correct way to think about something? What is your valued opinion? Your ideas are important too and maybe even more so than the writers of the movie. What is in the background that is subliminal to your brain that you did not even notice?
YOU ARE IMPORTANT AND HAVE BRILLIANT AND IMPORTANT IDEAS! LEARN TO EXPRESS THEM AND NOT PARROT WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD BUT THINK DEEPLY AND ALONE ON WHAT YOU VALUE AND THINK IS CORRECT.
Karen Carpenter did seek treatment for anorexia. Unfortunately, there was not enough known about the disorder in the 1980s to help Karen. Karen was also abusing a drug which made her throw up her food. In Karen's case, she needed rest and mental health therapy. The world lost a great singer when she died. She had such a beautiful voice.
Herb Albert discovered Karen and Richard Carpenter. When he spoke about Karen he sobbed. I cry when I hear her song "Merry Christmas Darling." What a tragedy to lose her so young. She had a BEAUTIFUL voice 😢
I saw Geote Ami at a “smallest woman in the world” attraction at a fair in New England in the 1990s. Even at my young age, I knew it was wrong for us to be in there looking at her like that, everyone gawking and speaking about her as if she wasn’t there, wasn’t real. I cried…I was only like 7/8years old. It hurt me, I could see that she was real, she smiled with me and looked so kind. No one was treating her as a human. No one was speaking her, only each other- about her. It broke my young heart. I never went in to another attraction like that at the fair…..
Wow that's crazy. I'm sorry you went through that. That was traumatizing I bet! I am really touched though by your compassion at such a young age. This is the type of compassion I'm trying to teach my children. That is a beautiful grace you have. To have such connection to another human beings' suffering. That woman probably saw that you were empathetic to her and I know that probably meant the world to her. You have a beautiful soul. :)
Wow that's crazy. I'm sorry you went through that. That was traumatizing I bet! I am really touched though by your compassion at such a young age. This is the type of compassion I'm trying to teach my children. That is a beautiful grace you have. To have such connection to another human beings' suffering. That woman probably saw that you were empathetic to her and I know that probably meant the world to her. You have a beautiful soul. :)
Wow that's crazy. I'm sorry you went through that. That was traumatizing I bet! I am really touched though by your compassion at such a young age. This is the type of compassion I'm trying to teach my children. That is a beautiful grace you have. To have such connection to another human beings' suffering. That woman probably saw that you were empathetic to her and I know that probably meant the world to her. You have a beautiful soul. :)
Karen Carpenter did die from heart failure brought about by not only anorexia but also a chronic addiction to prescription drugs.
Yes just like The Late Great Hank Williams
And her addiction to laxatives.
The corset women made me think of Kim kardashian getting her small waist by wearing a corset. Edit: just watched the Met Gala and Kim K has an even smaller waist due to the silver corset they made for her. She had to take breathing lessons and looked like she was in pain all night. I don’t get what is beautiful about something so unnatural . Why does she do this?
My children are tall and fit, at 6'2", and 6'3". Folks consider my daughter thin, but my sons fit. They all eat well, exercise, and have never compromised their health.
For over 13 years I weight about 24,7kg. I just stopped eating because among other things I was convinced that I don't deserve food.
Sweetheart everyone deserves food, including you! Please go ahead and eat
That really happens, some babies are very small, smaller than other normal babies. There are people out there that are twenty four to twenty five inches at height. I have seen and heard of them on tv and TH-cam. We were all born different in sizes and shapes.
Some pepole are just thin no matter what they eat and some have medical conditions and some starve themselves it so sad and not healthy 😢
My Mom started to show signs of anorexia when she noticed she had lost 10# while in the hospital for a blood infection. She was never really "fat" outside of a scientific definition, & it terrified my Dad & me. We had to fight to get her to eat enough to get the basic nutrition. I'm morbidly obese, & this also triggered a lot of binges in me, too, on a subconscious level. Thankfully, after only a few months, we were able to get her back on a healthy diet, even if it was still quite sparse for her doctor's liking, until she finally died from other causes.
Jokes on you, I identify as a centipede
Two sisters from South America, I think, were models and both died of anorexia. Truly maddening is that the younger sister watched need big sister wither away and died only to repeat the tragedy.
My brother has that condition where he could eat anything and he won't gain weight he is at 115 lbs at 6 ft 1 in and if he eats fast food he loses weight and he's been like that all his life and he's 44 years old and till this day he still is nothing but skin and bones. I am so jealous because I have a thyroid condition and I gain weight by looking at food and I have to take special medication for it which is hard to get because there's only one company in the whole USA that manufactures it.
I would urge people to read the book about the life and death of Karen Carpenter, which she cowrote until her death. She had anorexia and actually recovered from it. Sadly, her subsequent weight gain was too much on her heart and she died of a heart attack while enjoying a Thanksgiving meal with her parents.
She was an amazing drummer most people don't know that she was
There was a chronic addiction to prescription drugs, uppers, and sleepers that contributed to her sad death. I loved the Carpenters growing up in the 70s, so much so that when I left home aged 16, I aquired without permission, my father's copy of The Carpenters greatest hits album. 😮
Karen Carpenter's voice was the best female voice of all time! She was amazing!!!
One time years ago, my narcissistic mother made a negative comment about my weight. I don't recall what it was; I only recall that later, she gave me one of the only apologies she's ever given to me in my life. Her apology? "I'm sorry I said that earlier. I realized that if I were fat, that would hurt my feelings!" Gee, thanks mom. :p You can't control what other people do or say, only how you respond; don't let someone else's demons rule your life. (I'm talking to you, Eugenia.)
Some sad tales
To me, all the stories were terrible and sad.
I became anorexic in my late teens and early 20s.
It took me many years to see it and admit that I was sick. However, I could no longer eat normally. My mother cooked my favorite dishes and I sat at the table, crying quietly to myself and unable to eat.
Until one Sunday I couldn't get up or walk.
The emergency doctor came late that day, looked at me and shook his head. (I remember it like it was yesterday!) I heard him talking to my boyfriend at the time, but nothing resonated with me.
However, the moment he pulled back the blanket and I saw my thin legs (the legs consisted almost entirely of skin and bones) I knew I would die if I didn't finally fight it.
I *fought* this and I *did* do it!!!
But it took many, many years.
Since then I have also been eating foods that I DON'T like but that are healthy.
I NEVER want to be in such a terrible situation again.
THANK GOD 🙏🏼 I didn't suffer any permanent damage.
WHOEVER wants to go on a diet, start with putting the chocolate away and not the meal that is healthy.
Do some exercises and stop eating after 6:00 pm.
If you feel hungry don't start stuffing yourself but drink a glass full of water - no juice or coke etc.
If you like to have some chocolate, get the dark chocolate with 70% and more.
They're so many things we can do...
...and ONE MORE thing we can do *DON'T LISTEN TO STUPID IDIOTS. AS LONG AS WE ARE HEALTHY AND FEEL GOOD - WE ARE PERFECT !!!*
U pravu ste. Zdravlje je najveće bogatstvo. Sve ostalo je totalno sporedno. Ako si bolestan više ništa nema smisla.
Sve najbolje. Pozdrav
@@radojicazivkov5055 Thank you 🙏🏼 very much and *Merry Christmas* 🎄
@@silvereli Hvala Vam (thank you). Želim Vam sve najbolje and Merry Christmas. Pozdrav iz Srbije.
@@radojicazivkov5055 Spulaiti nogo 🙏🏼. (thank you very much). 😁
My parents are from Greece (Makedonia).
Pozdrav ut Germania. 🙋🏻♀️
@@silvereli Gruse Nachbarn.
We've made some tiny progress in the modelling community. After the tragic death of 2 model sisters (due to self-induced anorexia)... many top designers vowed to never hire anymore size '0' models ever again. Not good enough in my opinion.....(but it's a start!)
Where were the child services when this abuse was going on? Px
Karen Carpenter also had a mother who treated her horribly, complained that she was too heavy, but doted on her brother Richard.
She needs to go to a hospital and get therapy and learn to eat and love herself.
As someone who trained heavily in ballet and other dance throughout my life, you either have the right body for ballet or you don't; you can't diet your way into differently-shaped bones, for example, and a big thing with the ideal ballet body has to do with the skeleton. I was told i was too big for professional ballet, and while that really broke my heart, I kinda already knew it. I didn't do anything to change my body, however, because I was already thin/lean and didn't want to get any smaller. But "big" in the ballet world is anything above about 5' tall and 100#, because the male dancers have to be able to easily pick you up and throw you around.
The puny weaklings they call males can't pick them up or throw them around. That sounds like the male dancers problem. Gain some strength then
I thought I'd speak up here.
It's NOT a matter of "not looking after themselves" - eating disorders are a psychiatric illness.
You wouldn't call out someone with Bipolar Disorder or schizophrenia - so why call out someone with an eating disorder? It's related to obsessive compulsive disorder and often triggered by abuse or trauma.
These are tormented minds, not a freakshow to be criticized.
I know the Pro-Anna (which is what that very ill group call themselves) groups are alarming and heartbreaking. I won't say more on them because giving them too much attention just gives them the attention they want in a very negative way and they deserve better.
I'm in recovery from another rare eating disorder (diabulimia, now called T1DE or Type 1 Disordered Eating, which has a 60% fatality rate before the age of 30) - and I have been on wards at the hospital where my fellow sufferers (no matter how they specifically engaged in their own disorder) have passed away. It's soul crushing.
Please consider these aspects to this horrific mental illness and have some compassion?
Thank you.
Lizzie is an absolute amazing person!
Wow the guy was actually super handsome at his healthy weight. Is crazy how weight changes your face completely
These poor souls, they were dealt a bad hand with health issues .
The Thinnest women I ever met stood at 5 feet 8 inches and told me she weighed 72 pounds.
I met her at a cafeteria in a hospital. She wasn't eating. She was reading and had a bottle of water. The cafeteria was quite full so I asked her if I could sit at her table.
One of my arms was in a cast and I tried taking a straw out of the paper package. I asked if she wouldn't mind to help me and she complied and began a conversation with me.
During our conversation she asked me if I thought she was pretty. I mentioned her cheeks were 'a bit hollow' but I added, that's probably her make-up. She told me she only had eye makeup on. I saw she was thin even while seated. She was easily 30 years my junior.
I joked with her that she would stand out in certain parts of Africa I had visited in my life. When asked why, I told her that in some of the countries there the heavier you were, the more beautiful you were considered.
She asked my opinion of what her body looked like and stood up, twirled around and sat back down. She was very, very thin. She asked me for a honest answer. I told her she could stand to gain a few pounds. (this was the JLo era). She asked me if I didn't think women with tiny waists were sexy. I came back with,........but that's for hour glass figures. [That was the most polite way of telling her about T&A]. She came back and told me she was trying to lose another 5 pounds because she thought she was 'still fat'.
I was considerate of her mental issue and suggested that she should try to get an agent for modelling opportunities.
My thought at the time was that her agent would either tell her she was too thin or that no modelling company would take her because of her thinness.
Hopefully, she would try to gain weight.
Never saw her again after that brief encounter
Remember “ Twiggy “ as I recall that’s pretty much how it started
Anorexia is a mental illness and part of it is the body dysmorphia side of it. It is less physical and more mental. The brain drives the behaviour which drives the result. Very sad. 🖤
I struggled with anorexia a few years. It was terrible
#6'S mother should be JAILED!!
I was the combo anorexic & bulemic as a teen. Thankfully the Army kicked that out of me. Because of doing that to myself during growing years I now have to fight to keep my body from overcompensating and holding all the fat it can.
Jeremy Gillitzer, looked like a model before getting the eating disorders. 13:45
Breaks my heart , all of those that have died.
Some of the people reminded me of the victims of Linda Hazard who was supposed to be curing people, but her only treatment was to starve the women to be point of anarexia .
I almost forgot about her! Didn't she "help" a pair of sisters only to wind up taking their money while she starved them?
@@absinthealice yes one had a relative who visited and saw the skeletal body of his sister who was barely clinging on to life. She got exposed and I think opened like one more clinic before being shut down permanently.
On karen Carpenter, she didnt just have problems with her touring. She had a problem with her brother. That was a big issue of why she ended up the way she did.
No one has an eating disorder ''due to their own CHOICES''. It's a very complex mental health issue that doesn't develop in a psychologically healthy person after making a conscious decision. Dangerous in many ways to comment on it like in this video. Also disturbing how a lack of empathy and knowledge is shamelessly portrayed. Really sad actually.
Last year I got ill and struggled to eat. Eventually the doctors found out it was my gall bladder but there was a long waiting list for treatment. Although I never felt thin people started to comment and when I had some blood tests and the doctors told me I was malnurished and might die.
What do you mean a long list? Where do you live
@@nancysmith2874probably UK, I was supposed to have my gallbladder removed in 1990, the day of the surgery I was informed my operation had been cancelled because of a bed shortage....
I'm still waiting, thank God I found out what triggers the attacks so I can avoid them.
I hope you are ok now . I had gallstones and lost weight but 3 years after surgery I’m fine and eating completely normally
I remember from 12 to 15 or 16 i was having real issues getting something to eat in my mouth.
I mean, i was raised in what is called a normal family... we didn't have so many problems with me growing up. I dont even remember what triggered this but i was having a hard time eating and i was always screamed at and punished for not eating.... then i found out something that worked i still do to this day and i am almost 35 with 2 kids and i weight around 53kg.
I started to push myself into feeling the flavor of food i was eating and everytime before eating, i would drink a big glass of water, that gives me the feeling that i need to be able to actually swallow some food.
I am healthy and doing fine now, but i cannot forget how hard was for me to start somewhere while noone was giving me any advice but scream and punish.
Not many have the support they need, be always kind and smile to people, because as well as bad words, kindness and smile can build a person up to be their best. Sadly, we live in a world where we do need the people to be their best and not only give their best.
Love from Germany!❤
You're absolutely wrong about Karen Carpenter. It wasn't her schedule that made her Anorexic. Which doesn't even make sense? SMH
I'd like to know one person who became anorexic because of their work schedule. That has to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard
It was a journalist who wrote about her and her brother. In the article, he wrote that the act was her brother and his "chubby little sister." She, of course, read that and was horrified. It led her down that destructive path that, unfortunately, took her life.. People really have to think about their words and how it will affect the person it's about.
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So true
Your comment is absolutely correct and is well documented as the beginning of her issue with her weight.
I WAS ANOREXIC WHEN I WAS 18 YEARS OLD BUT THANKS GOD I WAS ABLE TO STOP AND EAT LIKE A NORMAL PERSON AGAIN, TO TELL THE TRUTH I DONT EVEN COUNT CALORIES ANYMORE, ITS EXTREMELY STRESSFULL, SO, IM NOT FAT BUT IF THEY CALL ME FAT I DONT GIVE A DAMM, NOBODY HAS THE POWER TO TELL ME IF IM FAT OR NOT I DONT DEPEND OF PEOPLE TO BE HAPPY
So very sad. Despite whatever physic a person has, there are always people out there that dwell on negative comments. Devastating comments that alter others. It is so much easier to emphasize the positive.
I really hope the ones suffering with this disorder are able to get the help they need; the ones who still can.
I had issues with anorexia as a teen/young adult. (Since treated and now maintain weight.)
When I called myself recovered, a counselor told me that, "anorexia is like alcoholism, in that you'll always be in recovery."
I thought I've maintained a healthy weight for years, so I was fine.
But he asked- "you still have those thoughts though, don't you?"
Damn, I guess he's right... 😢
Anorexia is a mental health issue. Not about not wanting to eat.
It is a mental health issue and a way of having some control over their lives. Speaking from experience
Medical health. ❤
My family would call me tubo.. so I just became an introvert and shut myself in.
OH HELL NO!!!!!! I am a 71 year old woman that is overweight. And you know what? I don't care what ANYONE SAYS OR THINKS. I have been losing weight, BUT I'M NOT TRYING TO. I haven't weighed myself in a while, but the last time i had, I had lost 79 pounds. I'll take it. But i don't a rats ass what people think. I dont live their life they can't live my live.
Good for you keep on doing what you’re doing🎉health is all that matters!
My ex-husband told his second wife that if she gained weight, she couldn't have her allowance and car. She then taught my daughter how to stay "thin" because that was what you should be to get a boyfriend or husband.
My current husband and I struggled with her when we got her and put her in therapy and hospital. It was devastating. She was 15 when we got her. Now, at 27, she has beaten the body dismorphia that my ex taught her.
This documentary is as sick as the poor sick people suffering of anorexia .
It’s wicked insensitive
Saddened and horrified at the same time. PIP to all those in the world who have died from this terrible disease.
Pip?
To corsets, most people that did wear corsets in the old days had ways to fake their tiny waste. They used all kinds of things, like hipcovers to make the hips look wider. (You can find Bernadette Banner for that). I thank you for making this video the way you do. It has become a very educational video for all kinds of people. I have shared it.
Jesus imagine having a condition that forces you to be anorexic then in trying to combat it, your body throws youa Type-2 curveball. That's just rotton.
Poor guy but I admire his strength!
Unfortunately the woman who didn't want her daughter to grow-up was most likely suffering from a mental illness. Mental health or lack thereof is no easy fix. Such a waste of human 😢 potential 😢😢😢
This video makes me feel a little less bad about the extra ten pounds I'm carrying around.
She had ribs removed
People say that but forget the ribs have to come out thru skin. The scarring would be HUGE. Huge as in spine to the end of the rib being removed. Not a thin, narrow scar either. It would be about 3-4 inches wide. Buy a whole chicken. Remove a rib. The bird will be a mess. Keep going, do a dozen of them over time. It's really not going to get much smaller. A bit tidier but not much smaller. Imagine that mess on a human being. Yeah, a little cover stick is going to cover that.
These are all people we know through media. For normal people, we can go through this without trying. I went through average size 10 UK, to size 6 UK in 3 months. Was through being misdiagnosed on the NHS and getting the wrong meds. Really, I was a skeleton with flesh, just like Eugene. Not my choice, but through meds. Docs told me I had 5 years to live if I took the meds, 2 years if I refused the meds. I refused the meds as they made me a lunatic when I tried them. Ok, to cut a really long story short, it is now 27 years later and I am still here
Lizzie is a fighter, good for her. Had no idea she has to consume so many calories per day.