All tag results for 'eating disorders'

13 Year Old Wants Seventeen To Start Showing Real Girls

It’s no surprise that magazines constantly create the illusion of unattainable body images with a little help of Photoshop magic.

What is surprising, is how one 13 year old from Maine is taking a stand and urging Seventeen to commit to just ONE unaltered photo spread every month.

Julia Bluhm's Seventeen Magazine: Give Girls Images of Real Girls petition reads

Tags: body image, eating disorders, julia bluhm, lily collins, maine, photoshop, seventeen, seventeen magazine, seventeen magazine: give girls images of real girls

Natalia Vodianova Defends "Better To Be Skinny" Comment

Supermodel Natalia Vodianova is on the defensive after the media misconstrued her "it's better to be skinny than fat" comment she made last weekend.

As most celebrities tend to do, the Russian beauty posted an explanation on Facebook and she had A LOT to say.

Natalia writes:

I guess the reaction of the press is expected to be negative when I said it's better to be skinny then to be fat at the Vogue Festival this past weekend. However on the background of arriving from China where most people leave under the poverty line and have to share food and watch how much they eat to survive and on the background of how I grew up where sometimes I had to skip meals so there would be food for my little disabled sister and that feeling of missing bread so much some days because on some days we had no money to buy any (reason I had ulcers as little girl was constant irregular eating) could give an explanation why I felt moved to give another prospective on this issue.

But wait, there's more! Read Miz Vodianova's entire post…AFTER THE JUMP!

[Image via WENN.]

Tags: africa, anorexia, china, daily mail, eating disorders, facebook, jourdan dunn, models, natalia vodianova, nhs, russia, vogue, vogue festival, vogue magazine

Model Alek Wek Talks About Growing Up In Poverty

Models have been known to suffer from eating disorders.

Some simply just don’t each much in order to maintain a slim frame which has Sudanese model Alek Wek bothered by it all.

The beauty knows what it means to truly really be hungry as she grew up in poverty in Southern Sudan.

Wek shares her past experiences in a new write-up for Newsweek where she talks about her difficult childhood before heading to London at the age of 14 as a refugee.

Reveals the model

[Image via WENN.]

Tags: alek wek, beauty, eating disorders, food, models, slim

Topshop Pulls Images Of Size Zero Model

UK fast fashion chain Topshop yanked images of size zero model Codie Young from their website after anti-eating disorder groups cried foul.

Following the removal the company's head of publicity, Andrew Leahy, issued a statement to explain the image:

"Topshop is confident that Codie is a healthy young woman and we do not feel it necessary to remove her from our imagery based on your feature. However we do recognize regretfully that the angle this image has been shot at may accentuate Codie's proportions making her head look bigger and neck longer in proportion to her body. […] The clothes she is wearing are a sample size 10 so in some instances they may look a little looser than normal. Topshop is proud of its heritage of celebrating individual-looking girls who offer an alternative more unusual beauty, however we take your comments very seriously."

The 18 year old model also posted a statement on her blog, writing:

"I am very happy with my body and how I look because its apart of who I am! Throughout my entire childhood I was called anorexic and people would ask if I was bulimic. And it was really hard sometimes for me to deal with as I have always been this way.

You know what some people are just naturally skinny and even if I tried to put on weight it wouldn't matter, because it doesn't matter what I eat, I dont put it on.

And finally yes okay I maybe an American size 0-2 and a UK size 8 so what. There are overweight/obese people who are a size 34 or 18 but know one says anything to them because you don't want to affend them! Just because someone eats a lot doesn't make them healthy. Just like not eating anything doesnt make you healthy."

Codie should talk to Tom Ford. They seem to share the same ideologies.

Tags: andrew leahy, codie young, eating disorders, images pulled, too thin