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Jaci · #1 06-18-2008, 01:34 PM

The pressure to lose weight in Hollywood is huge! Anorexia, and other eating disorders, is too common. Anorexic actresses and models are the norm, and what a shame it is that American teenage girls have these people to look up to. Being thin is just fine, but feeling the need to be so thin that you have to gorge and binge is just sick. This is a true American tragedy, and I hope that being overly thin becomes unpopular sooner rather than later. Let's take a look at just a few celebrities in Hollywood with eating disorders.

The Barbi Twins - Fasts to lose weight for fashion shows and photo shoots were followed by bouts of non-stop eating. "I went feast and famine,feast and famine.That was my whole life.There was no such thing as sitting down to a normal meal," says Sia. The sisters deny using cosmetic enhancements and claim their bodies are the result of a super-human exercise routine."I did 10 hours of exercise seven days a week," says Sia."I was in so much pain all the time." Eventually,the sisters developed full-blown bulimia - Shane would vomit,Sia took laxatives.At one point,the two -5 feet 9 inches tall-weighed just over 100 pounds each.Rock bottom came when Sia collapsed after taking more than 100 laxatives."It looked like she had a cardiac arrest or she was paralyzed on the right side,"says Shane.She got immediate medical help and recovered from her overdose,but her doctor warned her that if she didn't stop,she would die.Shane's husband encouraged them to attend meetings of Overeaters Anonymous,a 12-step program.

Paula Abdul - The American Idol judge Paula Abdul has struggled with eating disorders for years. She battled bulimia nervosa and decided to check herself in a clinic, back in 1994. She has been 'in recovery' ever since.But,E! Online's presentation of "Paula Abdul: The E! True Hollywood Story", revealed that the demands of fame and her battle with bulimia have all played a partin shaping the person she is today.

Elton John - The hugely popular singer Elton John has battled eating disorders. He came public about his battle with bulimia, which lasted for 14 long years. "I would gorge myself, then deliberately make myself sick. For breakfast I'd have an enormous fry-up, followed by 20 pots of cockles ((shellfish)) and then a tub of Haagen-Dazs vanilla. If I was eating a curry, I couldn't wait to throw it up so that I could have the next one."

Jessica Alba - The always thin actress Jessica Alba is trying to become healthier. "I got obsessed with it," the 5-foot-7,size 4 actress told Glamour Magazine. "A lot of girls have eating disorders and I did too. I got too thin.Now, I am concentrating on being normal."

Tracey Gold - Playing the role of Carol Seaver in Growing pains, Tracey Gold was constantly being told that she was too fat. More alarmingly, she was fighting the battle of her life against anorexia nervosa. It's been 10 years since photos of a shockingly thin Gold faced us from the cover of one of People Magazine's best-selling issues EVER. Today, an old and wiser Gold is ready to share her story. She opened up and wrote her story, according to HER perceptions of that period of her life, in her new book entitled, " Room to Grow-An Appetite for Life".

Sally Field - She began her three-year bout with bulimia at 20,spurred,she has said,by the perception that "everybody then was Twiggy,except me".Field has faced eating disorders that,during her days as TV's Flying Nun in the '60s,caused the 5-foot.2-in. actress,who normally weighs 100 pounds,to binge on candy and balloon 20 pounds.

Christina Ricci - Explaining her anorexia in her teens years, she revealed:"I had a brief flirtation with anorexia and when I was recovering from that, I put on a lot of weight,which was very dif- ficult for me. In a way, I was trying to get rid of my breasts. Everyone my age wanted them, so it was like, wohoo! Then, I started hating them. And for all my movies,I was supposed to be younger,so I had to strap them down."

Victoria Beckham - Victoria Beckham has admitted for the first time that she suffered from an eating disorder.After years in "denial", that she had anorexia in the past (or any kind of eating disorder) Victoria opened up...She said that for a time she was "obsessed" with her appearance. The revelation was made, by Victoria, in an extract from her autobiography. "In the gym, instead of checking my posture or position, I was checking the size of my bottom, or to see if my double chin was getting any smaller," she wrote.She has admitted that in the early days of the Spice Girls, when they were under pressure from their management to lose weight, dieting was a preoccupation.Beckham said it was Geri Halliwell, who encouraged her and Mel C to go running and take liquid meal substitutes.In the following years, Beckham began to binge eat - in one passage from her autobiography she describes eating 10 bowls of Frosties in one sitting. (See Is Victoria Beckham Bulimic for more)

Geri Halliwell - Former Spice Girl,Geri Halliwell, has been in and out of therapy in
her battle against bulimia and binge eating. She has been suffering from the eating disorder for several years, until a three-day binge made her seek help. In early 2002, she checked into a US clinic to help with her bulimia. About her bingeing, she said, "I realised I couldn't control this monster anymore.I needed to find help.About
group therapy, she said: "Here, everyone was equal. Fame and fortune counted for nothing."

Justine Bateman - The former Family Ties star made a lot of rules for herself:
"I can have one more cookie if I go throw it all up later.Or I can have this now if I skip lunch later," she said in the Nov. 9 edition of the U.S. TV Guide. "I'm talking mainly about doing stuff like not eating when I'm hungry. Or, eating more than I really want to and then trying to get rid of it." Bateman said she was sure people knew. "In fact, when they'd say, 'You look anorexic,' I'd take it as a compliment." In September 1996, Bateman went public for the first time with the revelation that she had suffered from bouts of anorexia, bulimia and compulsive overeating while making ''Family Ties.''

gillberk · #2 01-07-2009, 10:34 PM

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jadelee · #3 07-01-2009, 07:44 AM

I like girls with real forms but not those who look like skeletons, what's this? Whom are you following, girls?! Give it up!

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