No Thinspiration

In my opinion nobody should watch someone else body and try to look similar.
Everybody should have its own concept of beauty.

Victoria Beckham has inadvertently boosted the sales of a new diet book that highlights the current obsession with extreme svelteness.

Posh ‘n’ text: Victoria’s patronage gave a boost to sales of ‘Skinny Bitch’
Until recently, not many people had heard of the American diet book, Skinny Bitch. That is, until Victoria Beckham decided to buy a copy.

The perpetually pouty British singer - dressed in her trademark dark sunglasses - was snapped by paparazzi buying the diet guide in an LA boutique last month. Within hours of the photo appearing on the web, the book had jumped from 77,939th place on the Amazon website sales chart to 209th - a whopping increase of 37,000 percent.

The sassy book - described as a “no-nonsense, tough-love guide for savvy girls who want to stop eating crap and start looking fabulous” - had failed to garner much attention prior to being lifted off the shelf by the rail-thin Posh. Now its authors are reaping in the cash as thousands of readers turn to the unconventional book for quick weight loss advice.

The book was written by two LA fashion luminaries: former model Kim Barnouin, who has a degree in holistic nutrition, and ex-Ford model agent Rory Freedman. “They may be bitches,” the book warns. “But they are skinny bitches.”

Not for the faint hearted, the in-your-face book is loaded with strong language and no-holds-barred advice such as, “you are a total moron if you think the Atkins Diet will make you thin”; “soda is liquid Satan”; and “coffee is for pussies”.

Based on a vegan philosophy, the Skinny Bitch guide encourages women to eat whole grains, fruits and vegetables while urging them to abandon dairy products, eggs, meat and fish. The authors also issue a scathing attack on meat eaters, calling those who choose to eat meat while attempting to lose weight “morons”.
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The Cranberries star Dolores O’Riordan suffered a nervous breakdown and anorexia because the band was so successful. The singer says she couldn’t eat or sleep when the Irish rockers reached the height of fame more than a decade ago.

She says, “I honestly think that it was beyond anorexia - it was bigger than that. I was having a nervous breakdown. Losing lots of weight.

“I wasn’t sleeping, I couldn’t eat. I was suffering an awful lot from out-of-control anxiety attacks. I just couldn’t control my motor skills - I was panicking too much to move my limbs.

“So I went to see the psychiatrist and he just said it was too much stress.”

O’Riordan left the band after suffering a breakdown in 2003.

via StarPulse

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.

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More than half the people diagnosed with eating disorder anorexia never fully recover, 20 percent remain chronically ill and five percent die, the British Medical Journal estimates.

Here are some key facts on the disease:

WHO IS MOST AT RISK?
- Anorexia has the highest fatality rate of any psychiatric illness, with 13 to 18 percent of sufferers dying, most commonly due to heart disease or suicide, health experts in Britain say.

- Eating disorders are generally more prevalent in industrialized countries, among young women or adolescent girls.

- An estimated three percent of young women experience eating disorders. In Britain, about five to ten percent of women aged 14 to 24 suffer from some form of eating disorder.

- Eating disorders are more common among competitive athletes than the general population. Female gymnasts, ballerinas, figure skaters, and distance runners are at high risk, as are male bodybuilders and wrestlers.
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After Cibeles (spanish catwalk) rejected some extra skinny models, anorexic girls still can work in some other countries without problems.

One of the world’s most famous fashion designers yesterday became the first to speak out against the use of stick-thin models.

Giorgio Armani urged the fashion industry not to use ’size zero’ models in an effort to curb the rise in eating disorders among young women.