Posts Tagged ‘modeling

Fans of America’s Next Top Model will see a few twists with Bravo’s new reality show Make Me a Supermodel, premiering Jan. 10. Hoping to set itself apart from the competition, the show, hosted by supermodels Tyson Beckford and Niki Taylor, includes both male and female models and lets viewers decide who wins the $100,000 [...]

Perhaps Botox ought to come with a warning: Caution, may destroy part of brain capable of making rational decisions. Blogs and media sites across the nation and beyond are all hashing and rehashing the latest debacle starring the Queen of Crazy, Janice Dickinson – see here and here. In case you’ve been living under a [...]

Another fashion model has died from anorexia-related complications.  Israeli fashion model Hila Elmalich died Nov. 14 of heart failure.  The corpse she leaves behind is the average weight of a seven-year old child. If you didn’t read about it in the newspapers or hear it on the evening news, you aren’t alone.  I only stumbled [...]

It seems as if the pressure to ban the current breed of size-double zero supermodels is finally catching on in America. Last Thursday, New York legislators passed the “skinny models” bill, which will bring health and industry experts to the table to create standards and guidelines for underage performers and models to prevent eating disorders. [...]

While researching for a story, I ran across this article, The Unbearable Thinness of Being a Model. Writer Emily Nussbaum presents an interesting causation as the transformation from the eighties’ Amazon supermodels to the emaciated bags-of-bones strutting across the runway today. Models have dwindled in size, Nussbaum writes, because they’ve dwindled in stature – from [...]


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This is a blog where a roster of three regular writers and several guest writers comment on the latest news about eating disorders. It isn’t just a news feed, nor a personal journal – it’s a hybrid of both. We discuss the news with our own personal spin.

We aren’t journalists or outsiders looking in. We have eating disorders. We know about this illness because we live it. Some of us are thoroughly active in our eating disorders while some are in recovery. Most are in some state in between.

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