I had heard of something called the "fasting girl craze" which occurred in the Victorian period. Typed in "Victorian fasting girls" and the top four responses were, this lecture posted 7 years ago . 5,797 views. Next Fasting Girls The History of Anorexia Nervosa posted 2 years ago . 13 views. Followed by What Victoria's Secret Models Really Eat In A Day posted 11 months ago 1,631,129 views and Trying The Victoria's Secret Model Diet & Workout For a Week, posted one 1 year ago . 6,042,688 views. Some rather depressing numbers.
Starving feels good to some. There is a neurology here. Starving slows things down, warms lights around you, softens voices. I don’t deny the sociological components that set it in motion, I just argue that once you begin to starve, it’s calming. And you feel too zen to stop. And this is exclusive to consumer societies specifically because we know we can stop whenever we want. The food is there as soon as we want it. It’s a false sense of safety Except we can’t easily stop. Because as quiet and calm as it becomes, one day, for some reason, we begin to feel ourselves starting to die. That’s when the misery sets in. Because by then, hunger is gone. The mechanism has gone dormant. And now we’re dying and eating enough to recover is now ironically a biochemical risk. And we don’t want to go back to where we were but we want to live. And life becomes a horror movie It’s this simple. Trust me. It might begin in the mind. But it ends in the body processes. There is no cure for this
Oy! Outdated. Only the rich can pay for tx out of pocket, and only those who can afford insurance can pay for tx all. This skews things. I live in a poor, urban area and trust me, our AN/BN support group is full of people of all genders, races, cultures.
I think it’s the right time to say that I love the new Instagram trend of curves curves cures. It’s still a hard body to attain. (I’m a short, straight burner AND I don’t know how to eat properly ) but for me, it’s never been about attaining mediabody. It’s deeper and darker and weirder than that. But for those girls whose issues were triggered by something they saw in the media, this is a small victory for them. Those girls on insta are thicc and gorgeous and wonderfully healthy. my preschooler daughter, growing up with body image media, the trend is not starvation. And I want to take a moment of silence to thank the gods of superficiality for that one. May these vapid people keep showing their nubile health for at least the next 18 years. ❤️ Just get my kid past that genetic window or whatever. Keep telling her healthy and well fed and well exercised is physically the thing to be. Because this condition I carry is genetic. I know it is. I know I was born with it. I’ve been worried about how my body was composing itself since age SEVEN. And I don’t sleep for fear of her having it too. I was so scared of having a girl. And I had a girl and now I’m like a nutritional dragon trying to protect her and empower her and feed her as well as I possibly can. She might be the most well fed kid in the modern world heh It’s not about media alone, but anything that rejects extreme thinness is a win to me. Long may it last. It’s too late for me. But she’s going to value, desire, and embrace health and vitality. I will literally die nourishing and loving this kid.
