"I love my anorexia. It is my best friend." said my 18 years old friend. And in her eyes indeed it was; it was one of the factors that kept giving her promising prospects in her dream modelling career. When the models shown to teenage girls and in demand by fashion companies are no bigger than hat hangers, what else would you expect?
Anorexia is actually all about distorted body image as it is seen by self, by common public and by fashion designers that probably doesn´t really want their models to be attractive at all, to they didn´t overshine their absolutely godlike creations. May God save us all from them.
Anorexia is by no means a healthy helper for losing weight (as it seems to my friend); it is a killer. No matter how thin anorexic girl may get, she always sees herself as disgustingly fat, which is the difference between how she sees herself and how the others see her - whoever meets her most probably goes through a huge shock and thinks about people in concetration camps. As the illness goes further and the girl gets thinner and thinner, she takes people´s shocked expressions as encouragements for further losing weight and compliments to her slim beauty.
Anorexia, in contrast with bulimic overeating and later throwing up, is characteristic with its gradual lessening of portions of food girl swallows - one my other anorexic friend lessened her portions to the point of eating only three cucumbers a day. She continued like that for a month, then she collapsed and ended up in a hospital. She never mentally recovered from that.
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