[Millee]

The pictures are just shocking. What a sad, sick disorder.

[martin_fierro]

Hey, that's the NYT's/Upper West Side's standard for beauty.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

these are sad, pathetic people. They're being cheered on by even sadder, more pathetic people.

[martin_fierro]

OTOH (discuss)

[MamaTexan]

Sad, sad, sad.

To set an unobtainable goal, then die trying to reach it.

[RockinRight]

Even Kate Moss is too thin for me.

What's wrong with a nice, healthy, curvy girl? I'm not talking Rosie O'Donnell here, just a nice average girl with a figure that looks like a WOMAN and not a FREAK?

These people are nuts. I can't begin to understand the reason, cure, or rationalization of such a disorder. I hope at least some of these girls get the help they need.

[ToddBush]

Thankfully, I don't have to worry about this. The Girlfriend is delightfully curvy and I love her for it!

[najida]

I remember when the disorder first came into the medical light (early 80's)....you couldn't be thin enough. Dr's. sent them to us to counsel, and we'd send them right back with notes that read "They know more about food than we do! They need psychiatric help, not nutritional education."

Still, I think it was still being sent girls with 'eating problems' and not other intervention as late as 1990.

Personally, I think it was a combination of the fashion changing the perception of the 'appropriate' female body from one with curves, hips, boobs and maybe even a soft bit of tummy to the super thin waif.... you know, boys with boobs.....

Which just cracks me up when I read ultra hetero conservative males bashing Brokeback Mountain in one thread, or raging against child porn in another.... then posting pics of half starved, silicone enhanced sticks as "Hot Chicks" in the next thread.

Anyhow, toss in Balanchine's baby ballerinas, ripped Olga Korbet (who even by today's standards would be hefty), other activities demanding smaller and smaller body types..... plus starlets getting tinier and tinier and more and more baby'ish of face.

I also remember with the 5-7-9 shop was for 'super small' females.

Now we have a size 0 and well, a bizarre body form that only 8% of the female population can obtain without drastic measures...all the way to surgery.

[MotleyGirl70]

Slow death.

[cyborg]

ping

[cyborg]

Anorexia and morbid obesity are mental illnesses. You can't help these people except to pray for them.