Family life to blame for anorexia, not fashion models, says Gisele Bundchen

[terry78]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070120/ap_en_ot/people_bundchen


Like you'd disagree with her.

 

[Kaleb]

she is totally right.you are responsible for your own actions.

 

[AndThePickles]

Interesting. I agree with her.

 

[mightiest_mortal]

I agree also

 

[Mee]

It's a little of both, I think.

girl: I wanna look like teh sOOper models!!

*throws up*


But yeah, people have free will. Choose to be super skinny, or don't.

 

[jaguarr]

I blame Toven.

jag

 

[Badger]

I blame Roseanne Barr and Rosie O'donnel.

 

[Hades]

Not having a healthy foundation or support to full back on early in life can definately curse you with some problems, I'd say. Or at least make the likely hood of falling into them alot easier. Of course you can't go around blaming things for your behaviour. But eh, if the whole skinny model thing is so horrible to see in magazines then why do people keep buying into them, and liking skinny models it's partly the public's fault. I don't know.

 

[Kritish]

I blame Toven.

jag

Forget the Jews, it all comes back to Toven.

 

[Kyalesyin]

Its a mix of both, although childhood and family grounding plays a much bigger part than people think. The time I spent in psych I was surrounded by anorexics, and the most common factor? Nothing to do with wanting to be thin. It was all about wanting to be 'light'- to stay in an underdeveloped, childlike state with no hips, breasts or periods to worry about and to avoid sexual development all together. The only time that models and the like were really involved was when they were talking about how they see them, beautiful, thin, 'light' and therefore 'free'.

Anorexia is a very complex illness and has more than one root cause.

 

[BRUTAL]

I beat anorexia

 

[Kyalesyin]

I beat a bunch of anorexics. Does that count?

 

[Avalanche]

I'm sick of people blaming the fashion industry for eating disorders. Likewise, people blaming obesity on MacDonalds et al. I wish people could take some of the responsibility themselves.

Anorexics choose not to eat for the most part. No one makes them.

 

[Kyalesyin]

That depends on the definition of choice. They have some extremely deep seated and difficult issues, and in their highly delusional state feel that the best way out is to stop eating and control their weight. Anorexia is a delusional disorder.

 

[Avalanche]

That depends on the definition of choice. They have some extremely deep seated and difficult issues, and in their highly delusional state feel that the best way out is to stop eating and control their weight. Anorexia is a delusional disorder.

But I don't think it's fair to blame the fashion industry for this. That said, anorexia is one of those 'fragility' illnesses that I can never get my head around.

Dieting is one thing. Not eating until your bones stick out is another.

 

[Kyalesyin]

But I don't think it's fair to blame the fashion industry for this. That said, anorexia is one of those 'fragility' illnesses that I can never get my head around.

Dieting is one thing. Not eating until your bones stick out is another.

I never said the fashion industry was to blame. The fascination with the models tends to come in well after the disorders are set in place, since the disorders that cause it tend to start in early childhood. In a fair few of the cases I've come across, some form of pre-adolescent sexual abuse was the big trigger to them desperately holding off sexual development.

 

[Kritish]

I beat a bunch of anorexics. Does that count?

That isn't any feat, anorexics are ****ty fighters, they blame it on the brittle bones but we know better.

 

[Kyalesyin]

That isn't any feat, anorexics are ****ty fighters, they blame it on the brittle bones but we know better.

I didn't beat them physically, although trust me, I wanted to. Badly. I actually beat them by not winding up one of them while caged up with a load of them for six months. It got tempting just to join in drinking salt water with the rest of them.

 

[Morg]

They both partly to blame, those kids get bombed with girls being skinny 24/7 from tv to mags and such

 

[Kyalesyin]

Most of the issues surrounding anorexia set in earlier, before they'd be paying attention to that stuff for the most part, although don't forget, there are about a million different types of anorexia.

 

[terry78]

 

[Kyalesyin]

Skinny, but nowhere near anorexic. Try harder.