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Princess Beatrice is perhaps one of the least fashion-forward young women in royal circuits. (Note the butterfly-themed hat she wore to her brother’s wedding – yikes…)
And she’s a constant club-hopper who hasn’t yet learned how to turn it on for the papparrazzi and give a “good” shot, even if it’s the wee […]
Thinspiration — also known as “thinspo” — is all over the Internet. Really, if you want to find it, you can do so with a few simple keystrokes.
As the Breaking the Mirror blogger, I find myself regularly investigating images and videos that could be considered “thinspo” in the name of investigation. But some nights, like […]
I can remember an interesting survey I heard about some time ago…
A bunch of kids (they were quite young — perhaps 5 and 6) were asked if they would rather be fat or lose a limb (or some such nonsense.) They predominantly chose losing a limb over having too much weight on their frames.
Now, […]
It’s come to my attention that some anorexics are using food allergies/sensitivities as an excuse not to eat, especially when around friends or family whom they haven’t seen for a while.
(As a side note, I was concerned about mentioning this, for fear that some pro-anas might use it for their own “benefits”; but let’s face […]
I became anorexic in the 1980s. This means I had no Internet to turn to for my thinspiration, no images immediately accessible with a tap of the keyboard.
But I still had thinspiration. It just came in the form of books and articles.
I’ve always loved to read and when I discovered there were fiction and non-fiction […]
If you know someone who is suffering from a case of anorexia, you might inadvertently trigger her deeper into her disease by saying something that she interprets much differently than you might expect.
It’s kind of like there’s an “Ana Filter” between an anorexic’s eyes, ears and brain. Everything she sees and hears becomes skewed toward […]
I’m alarmed when I read that girls are developing eating disorders as young as five or six… that seems such a stretch. I was the typical “teen anorexic” — exactly what you’d expect, really.
I’m curious — when did you start your relationship with Ana (or Mia)?
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First of all, thinspiration (or thinspo) is used by pro-ana and pro-mia advocates around the world and provides vision cues to them to stop eating. Pictures of rail-thin women and guys are plastered around the web, ostensibly to give willpower to anorexics and bulimics.
Of course, all pro-recovery sites like Breaking the Mirror talk about the dangers […]
If you’re not from the “world” of eating disorders, you might think that all disordered eaters treat one another the same.
Not so.
You see, like any other “clique”, those with EDs have a caste system, a heirarchy of sorts. It’s not usually discussed, but it definitely exists.
Allow me to explain (and feel free to let me […]
This is a hard photo for me to post.
It was taken about two years or so before I became anorexic.
As you can see, I was chubby.
No denying it.
I was unattractive, too… though my husband calls me “cute” in the image, bless his blindness.
Kids made fun of me. Family members said nasty things about me. Strangers even made […]
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