I HAD ALWAYS THOUGHT THIS PICTURE WAS PHOTOSHOPPED...
SADLY, I WAS WRONG...
If you decide to save these pictures as thinspo, please save this one too, as this is how your body will look in a few years as a result of starving yourself...
I´ve checked out the site, and I´m shocked. Difficult to believe that the women are actually living but they are still doing their jobs as contortionists! I am a bit "fatter" than the "fattest" of them but I can hardly stand. Hope they´re not forced to do all these things.
sick and so disgusting. I am in recovery for anorexia and yes I am 5'8 and got a few pounds below 100 and been in and out of treatment etc. I can share horror stories. I never in my 20 years of anorexia ever wanted to be as disgusting as these photos. The sad thing is when you are "in it" your mind really starts to go and you truly can see fat. Even at my lowest of 92 which is much higher than these girls I did see fat but I never glorified it by pro ana sites or modeling! It's so gross! I barely put a few of my own on my own site because I wanted to share my story and my way up and forward into recovery. I love your site Medusa because it exposes the ugliness and danger of eating disorders and I love your honesty and bluntness. I hope somedy to speak out on this and help others. Eating disorders are ugly at all shapes and sizes~ ((hugs))
It really puzzles me too. The "thinspiration" and glorification of eating disorders. From my point of view, followers of these sites, are young girls or boys that get to see only the superficial part of the disease. There is no mention of the emotional pain, the loss of friends, health, credibility, etc. At my (physically) worst, I was constantly hiding my body. It was something very intimate, shameful and sad. This is why I find this site so refreshing because it draws attention to the full picture of this horrible disease. Thanks!
You know what is sickest of all? That even in after all my time in active recovery I look at that & hear my head say "Oh please she's really not THAT thin! Just look at the way she's bending, she's thrusting her bones outward so she looks emaciated when her BMI probably isn't even below 15."
Oh Christ, shut the f!@# up anorexia! That's the face of a dying woman no matter what her god damned BMI is.
I just wonder how she's able to walk with those sticks... o.o Even in my worst disordered time I did not want to look like one of these girls! This is not a thinspiration, this is a girl facing death!
Must.look.like.her. :'( Really it freaks me out to imagine how sick she must be and then realize I don't feel fear, I feel envy. And I've already "successfully" been through treatment twice.
That girl in the kicking photo (black jeans, white top) is a model, not the same girl in the rest. I can't remember her name, but she's really young... Nevertheless, it's sick.
I thought she was really pretty. Especially the way those clOthes hung off her like that. Heck! I'd even buy those clothes of they looks like that on me!! Oh how very wrong of me :(
She is perfection. Absolutely stunning and gorgeous. The perfect woman. All women should look like her. Very arousing body without having a sunken face. Perfect in every way.
Her face is beautiful, but she looks like a skeleton. I hate watching anorexic girls walk.. just waiting for a bone to break.. it’s sad that our culture has pushed this concept of thin equaling beauty because most guys I know like a healthy woman, not a sickly thin one. What a horrible disease. I hope these women get help and stay away from each other before they succumb to their illnesses. It’s like drug addiction. You’ve got to not only change your habits, but your environment and who you associate with. I was a really bad drug addict, and I got down to 89 lbs. at 5’5”. I look at photos now, and I’m saddened that I ever allowed myself to get that bad. Knocking on death’s door. Not worth it.
I´ve checked out the site, and I´m shocked. Difficult to believe that the women are actually living but they are still doing their jobs as contortionists! I am a bit "fatter" than the "fattest" of them but I can hardly stand. Hope they´re not forced to do all these things.
ReplyDeletesick and so disgusting. I am in recovery for anorexia and yes I am 5'8 and got a few pounds below 100 and been in and out of treatment etc. I can share horror stories. I never in my 20 years of anorexia ever wanted to be as disgusting as these photos. The sad thing is when you are "in it" your mind really starts to go and you truly can see fat. Even at my lowest of 92 which is much higher than these girls I did see fat but I never glorified it by pro ana sites or modeling! It's so gross! I barely put a few of my own on my own site because I wanted to share my story and my way up and forward into recovery.
ReplyDeleteI love your site Medusa because it exposes the ugliness and danger of eating disorders and I love your honesty and bluntness. I hope somedy to speak out on this and help others. Eating disorders are ugly at all shapes and sizes~
((hugs))
It really puzzles me too. The "thinspiration" and glorification of eating disorders.
ReplyDeleteFrom my point of view, followers of these sites, are young girls or boys that get to see only the superficial part of the disease. There is no mention of the emotional pain, the loss of friends, health, credibility, etc.
At my (physically) worst, I was constantly hiding my body. It was something very intimate, shameful and sad. This is why I find this site so refreshing because it draws attention to the full picture of this horrible disease.
Thanks!
You know what is sickest of all?
ReplyDeleteThat even in after all my time in active recovery I look at that & hear my head say "Oh please she's really not THAT thin! Just look at the way she's bending, she's thrusting her bones outward so she looks emaciated when her BMI probably isn't even below 15."
Oh Christ, shut the f!@# up anorexia! That's the face of a dying woman no matter what her god damned BMI is.
It literally makes me sick to my stomach to look at these photos. This is anything but beautiful. It is vomit, filth and sickness.
ReplyDeleteIs this really Real?
ReplyDeleteYes, it's real, Anonymous.
ReplyDeleteIt's so sad that I am still at the point where I want to look like this....i don't know why, I just need to see my bones again...I'm so fucking fat!
ReplyDeleteI just wonder how she's able to walk with those sticks... o.o
ReplyDeleteEven in my worst disordered time I did not want to look like one of these girls! This is not a thinspiration, this is a girl facing death!
Must.look.like.her.
ReplyDelete:'( Really it freaks me out to imagine how sick she must be and then realize I don't feel fear, I feel envy. And I've already "successfully" been through treatment twice.
...i think i'm sick for looking at that picture and thinking how... perfect she looks to me.
ReplyDeletei don't think that's normal
i don't think it's good
wtf is wrong with me... WHY DO I WANT TO BE LIKE THAT?
That girl in the kicking photo (black jeans, white top) is a model, not the same girl in the rest. I can't remember her name, but she's really young... Nevertheless, it's sick.
ReplyDeleteI thought she was really pretty. Especially the way those clOthes hung off her like that. Heck! I'd even buy those clothes of they looks like that on me!!
ReplyDeleteOh how very wrong of me :(
The narcissism on her face is the Ugliest part of it.
ReplyDeleteI feel sorry for people doing this to themselves, but I have to admit, I still think the red haired girl is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteShe is perfection. Absolutely stunning and gorgeous. The perfect woman. All women should look like her. Very arousing body without having a sunken face. Perfect in every way.
ReplyDeleteHer face is beautiful, but she looks like a skeleton. I hate watching anorexic girls walk.. just waiting for a bone to break.. it’s sad that our culture has pushed this concept of thin equaling beauty because most guys I know like a healthy woman, not a sickly thin one. What a horrible disease. I hope these women get help and stay away from each other before they succumb to their illnesses. It’s like drug addiction. You’ve got to not only change your habits, but your environment and who you associate with. I was a really bad drug addict, and I got down to 89 lbs. at 5’5”. I look at photos now, and I’m saddened that I ever allowed myself to get that bad. Knocking on death’s door. Not worth it.
ReplyDelete