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1-21-2007 12:46 PM
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DizzyDezzi says:
What do you think?

I'm kind of on both sides of the argument, that it's a combination of nurture and nature. I was raised by a mother who was obsessed with her weight and who would regularly tell me I was fat and that was when I was pushing 120! I had boyfriends who considered me fat at 130. I toyed with binging and purging, but being a Type A personality, it made me feel out of control. I decided that I would have to find other ways to keep my weight down that didn't include doing anything gross to myself or causing myself pain (I had severe gall stones, but didn't know until years later).

Now I am a healthy but plump 170 (I have three kids after all), and I actually get a lot of compliments on how I look. I find ways to enhance my assets and hide my flaws and complement those things I do like about myself. I do worry about my weight getting worse, so I maintain habits that control/lower my weight, but I don't starve myself.
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1-21-2007 8:37 PM
wurdzgurl
Personally I believe that being in the industry doesn't MAKE someone anorexic. I think if you have possibly tendency or personality for it being in a high profile position is definitely going to exacerbate it.
1-22-2007 9:39 AM
jatfla
My daughter works at a clinic for anorexics. They are mostly young girls, but not always. I agree that it's a combination of nature/nurture. She said they can do tests on what the girls are visualizing when they see themselves and they *truly* see themselves as large...no matter how teenie they might actually be. Being a Type A, an obsessive-compulsive controller with emphasis on appearance (the last being fostered by parent or peers), added to living in an environment with emphasis on female thinness, adds to the susceptibility. But there always appears to be a chemical imbalance in the brain.

Our daughter talks a lot about how discouraging it is working with these girls. They will ...
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