Thinspirations in video
I was watchin for some thinspiration videos and I’ve found this.
I hope it helps you.
Some of the comments in youtube are amazing:
Great video kat! It makes me sad to think about what I’m doing to my body, but I can’t say it’s being done in ignorance. The pictures were very powerful and a more honest look at what our society glamourizes.
I had no idea that Terry Schiavo’s bulimia caused her vegetative state… and I recovered from bulimia. Good job, the video was amazing.
I was searching for extreme ways to lose weight and become anorexic because I thought I was a fat stubby chubby. But then I saw your videos and said to myself, “Heyyyy. This shirt isn’t a large. It IS a medium. Aha!” You should go public with this information. <3 <3 <3
Thank you, very much for showing the true side,my councelors and theropist all seem to try to candy coat (no pune intended) the truth of my disorder, you are a really blessing, and a help, I will refer back to your videos often, if you don’t mind.
Thank you for these videos so much. The diaper part made me cry….I get so angry at people who try and make eating disorders seem glamerous, meanwhile I have woken up to find I cant control my bowels from laxative abuse. Soooo glamerous and fun. You have some majoy guts to post these and know you are very appreciated and making a huge difference.
I hope that THESE images are burned into the minds of suffering anorexics and bulemics. These are the kinds of things that show the REAL truth about “Thinspiration”!! Excellent job! I really like it that you showed the “families of” too. I heartily agree with kelsarob’s comment.
The ONLY (th)inspiration that we should be looking at are you and your messages. This video brought tears to me when the casket and the family was around. I had almost died and my family was devistated enough from that trauma. Again Thanks a LOT. I love you kat.
What do you think about it?
hey,
i just wanted to say that this video has helped me, and i wish that others (people I know) could see this video and try to turn their life around. Can I post this on my website? If not, email me and I’ll take it down. Anyways, this should go public, I bet a lot of girls searching for thinspiration would think twice after watching this,
Take care
Comment by Amy — December 21, 2006 @ 9:48 am
No problem if you want to post the video (it’s not mine). I’d appreciate a link to NoThinspiration.
Thanks Amy
Comment by NoThinspo — December 21, 2006 @ 10:13 am
hm… well,this video maybe could work…(probablly) for those who dont already have an ED. but,for people who already have one,like me, does the opposite. believe me. this video brought me the feeling of quilt, and mostly scared me. and do u know what most of people who r stuck with an ED (i want and am trying to gt bettr!) does when feels this?! runs more into it! so,i would suggest you not to talk with this tone,or with this ironity when u reffer to someone who has a life problem. who already suffered so much and doesnt need critics.
i got anorexia,and didnt realise for 6 mounts that i really become anorexic.
i starved myself to 90lbs (at 5/7),and than binged-purged for 2 years,and still do.
and do u know how i feel now? scared. quilty. ashamed.
does it make me not to binge? no.
why? becouse food gives me comfort.
do i want this? no.
do i want to end up like Terry? no.
but this is an illnes,so its not really under my control!
at the end,no. this video hasnt helped me.
im not stupid,i already knew this things,but noone was reffering to me like i am an idiot.
Comment by ielena — December 24, 2006 @ 11:03 pm
Dude. Thinspiration use to be my life. I am 13 yrs old and has just started to become anorexic.They don’t tell u any of this anywhere. And i guess I got so brainwashed that I would fight against any site or video that said anything against ana.Just after the first few days, my heart was beating weird, my breathing was off, I was always tired, i was snappy, plus, I was constantly dizzy. I have so many friends that are either with mia or ana. Do u mind if I e-mail this to them?
Comment by Grlzdemon — January 1, 2007 @ 8:18 pm
I watched this video and became curious, later going and looking at several of her other videos, including the one titled “CHOICES”.
It completely threw me back into my eating disorder days, but not in a bad way. I remembered my initial hesitation to seek treatment, my anxiety over insurance, worries about money even though I am a minor. All the memories that I’ve been ignoring lately were pushed back into my mind. I just got out of outpatient treatment that I’ve been going through for depression and OCD for a year. It was like being back in the hospital again, the constant urging faces, the other women urging me to take another bite of my grilled cheese sandwich.
It made me feel sad, and it made me remember that, once upon a time, I genuinely felt there was something missing in my soul.
Comment by The Consumerist Apocalypse Is Coming! — January 12, 2007 @ 3:00 am
I do not know who you are, but you have saved my life. I do not want to talk about it more, just know that you are my angel. My children,(ages 8,5 and 2) and my husband do not know it but they thank you for allowing their mommy and wife to live past her 30th birthday. Keep doing your job, you have officialy completed your life task here on earth. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. You have saved me.
Comment by 28 year old mom of three — January 26, 2007 @ 6:32 pm
some of the last pictures on your video moved me to tears. My sister recently has been hospitalised because of her destructive annorexia and bulimia. She is putting on weight and every time i see her she has a little more life. I am very grateful that you have spelled out the harsh reality of eating disorders, and not posted pics of skinny models. To be honest, when I first saw your video I thought it would be another ‘thinspiration video’ but you suprised me.
well done
Comment by sarah — January 31, 2007 @ 8:46 pm
Keep it up… I hope these videos will help more people, your video has just made me realise that I need help, and that getting sick ”doesn’t only happen to other people”. It could happen to anyone with an eating disorder. Bulimia is controling my life… and I’ve decided that I have a say in my life too!
Thank you!
Comment by 23 year old University Student trying to survive bulimia — February 2, 2007 @ 5:25 pm
That video gave me some more information on disorders like that and it got me thinking. Has anyone out there been asked your weight and gotton a suprised gasp because you don’t look that weight? Or told just by your your height and weight your fat. It gets annoying. I’m 5 feet 5 1/2 inches and 146 pounds. Let’s face it, my hips, boobs, and my bones are bigger and heavier than average. My genes are what is against me, not some weight.
Plus I actually tried eating less at one point(not eating all my lunch, no seconds), didn’t lose waist inches. Went back to having seconds, lost the weight inches I had gained on my chocolate cravings.
And all of you eating disorded people, think about this video, and think this also. You don’t want to be skinny. They look horrible. So have a big lean, steak and a huge baked potato with a mountain of sour cream, and stop thinking about stupid little calories. So you can see your ribs and clavicle and the outline of thigh bone, You’re hungery all the time, and you are not healthy.
Comment by bookworm — February 4, 2007 @ 7:46 am
Thank you so much for posting this. i have something like bulimia, and this has really helped me see the reality of what I’m doing to myself.
Comment by Erin — February 13, 2007 @ 10:18 pm
i love mia. it works all the time. post more tips.
Comment by cait — February 25, 2007 @ 7:42 am
it is inspiring to see that there are those people out there who want others to see the true effects of eating dissorders. the way they are depicted in the media makes them (ed’s) seem easy and that you can still be beautiful from starving or purging. they also make it seem like all you have to do to get over your ed is by going into rehab for a few weeks and then you are cured for life, not the truth which is you are dealing with your ed for the rest of your life.
Comment by jillian — March 4, 2007 @ 6:24 pm
thankyou. heavy stuff, but so real.
Comment by sal — March 10, 2007 @ 11:42 am
wow i have been a sufferer for 5yrs and that is the first time anyone has made me stop and think about what i am doing.seeing pictures of family and frienda who you leave behind really brought it home to me.i no i certainly never even gave a mintes thought to them and how it would effect them if i actually died.well done and thank you.
Comment by jane — March 20, 2007 @ 6:27 pm
I have to agree with ielena on this one. This video is not helpful to people who genuinely have anorexia nervosa… this might scare deliberate self starvers out of it (and that’s all you are btw, you can’t just give yourself anorexia), but the tone did nothing more than piss me off. It didn’t help, it didn’t make me want to stop, it just made me want to give that ignorant woman a slap.
I knew all of this stuff already, I know what I’m doing is bad for me and that’s why I try to work with it in a positive way. Replacing unhealthy methods with healthier ones is much safer than bitching at people like they’re five years old. Because what does that do? It turns people off to you straight away, that’s what.
Part of what goes on in a person’s head when they look at thinspiration and websites promoting a pro ana lifestyle, is rebellion. They’re fed up with people telling them that they’re wrong and that they’re bad, so they’re rising up and rebelling, they’re saying fuck you for not helping and treating me like a freak, I’m going to enjoy life how I want whether you fucking like it or not. So, if you’re appealing to these people, and trying to help them, you might want to try NOT sounding like every other critic out there, because we get fed up of hearing critics.
I’m going to carry on as I am, and I won’t change until someone from the anti-ana side of things learns to talk to me like the adult human being I am, rather than like a fucking moron freak child.
Nice try, but you fail.
Comment by Scott — April 28, 2007 @ 10:49 pm
thank u v much.. only over the past few wks have i began making myself sick constantly and have now realised how stupid i was! if i want 2 lose weight i will eat better and exercise! i understand people who r suffering from bulmia/anorexia would find it so hard 2 stop but as i have as just begun.. it has scared me 2 think wat a downward spiral i could hav caved in2! thank u from the bottom of my heart!!
xxxxx
Comment by 123 — May 2, 2007 @ 6:15 pm
Ok so now i think u are a bitter woman who is herself suffering all the time and needs to make sure the the statment “misery loves company” is true to form. U do not look so healthy yourself there missy. So what is up with that? U do realize that the guilt that u put onto someone with ana or mia is overwhelming, which pushes us farther deep into it for comfort and reliefe? Did u know that smarty pants? I guess not. Fine to show the other side but do not pretend that u know what it is all about. Why did you have to have that tone about it all? No cooth that is why, no tact that is why. Or maybe just plain jelousy!!!!!
Comment by Maria — July 20, 2007 @ 3:32 pm
All I can think of saying is THANK YOU!!! I’ve been sick, I am better now, but with your video I helped a lot of girls around the world, I am an Argentinian english-spanish translator and let me inform to you that this video has reached a lot of Latin American countries and Spain!
THANK YOU
THANK YOU
THAN YOU
YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER
AND A HEROE.
Comment by Andrea — July 29, 2007 @ 12:34 am
MARIA: don’t feel bad, I know that Kat only means well, I personally think she looks pretty healthy. But that’s just an opinion. Don’t feel guilty or sad, just be aware of what you are doing to yourself, and then choose what you wanna do but keep your feet on the ground. It’s awesome to have a nice body, to be pretty, and desired, just take care of yourself, and your organs, you will need them.
Food doesn’t only turn into fat, IT ALSO BECOMES IN ALL OF THE CELLS THAT COMPOSE YOUR BRAIN, YOUR HEART,and your organs, take care of them, and you will be just fine.
We don’t know each other but if you need me write: annie12@gmail.com
Comment by Annie — July 29, 2007 @ 12:47 am
ielena and scott are right. i know this is wrong. i know it hurts me. and if could go back I would. this video, pictures and voice tone, seemed like it tried to “guilt” me out of anorexia. guilt isn’t going to help. I didn’t choose this. No one who has true anorexia does.
Like Scott, I don’t want to be treated like a “freak child”.
Sorry. You didn’t help me.
Comment by Kristina — December 17, 2007 @ 9:39 pm
i love ana and mia
Comment by prinss_light — December 21, 2007 @ 5:41 am
You know what I LOVE? How binging and purging and bulimia always seems to be linked to people who just throw up every little thing they eat. It’s more like eating what most people would not even eat in a WEEK, eating foods that you feel disgusted after eating and feeling the4 need to go back and eat them again and waste all your money on it and THEN purging. Oh, and we’re not all bending over all toilets, I know that I fell into it was laxative abuse and it’s hell and I tell myself a million times I’m never going to be perfect enough or end up the way I want but I can’t stop. People with real eating disorders aren’t so shallow, there are deeper problems than just wanting to be thin. WHY does this stupid girl think that it’s all about wanting to be thin? It’s about control, about getting every little detail right and trying to be the best. Sometimes completely unrelated to celebrities and the media.
People should just shut up.
Comment by April — December 27, 2007 @ 12:15 am
I can’t believe that my view of skinny was so different then an anorexic’s view. I have always been attracted to thin women, but now I’m not so sure if I should use that word. The type of women I’ve always been attracted to were in physical shape. You can’t be in physical shape and be as skinny as the ladies these anorexic’s aspire to be at all. To have well defined muscles and a flat stomach is what women should be triying to be. They shouldn’t be trying to be skeletal. The thin-skeletal look is grossly sick looking, the women of that nature just look like they’re starving to death. Now when I’m at the gym and I see the really skinny girls on the treadmail I want to run up to them and tell them to eat and stop working out, or maybe atleast lift some weights!
Comment by Matt — January 8, 2008 @ 4:08 pm
ugly:what not to be
perfect: what to aim for.
Comment by britt — January 27, 2008 @ 9:59 am