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Size Zero Envy, Anorexia and Thinspiration

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Gisele Bündchen: Fashions Credo Less is More — The Road to Anorexia –

The majority of women will look on in amusement, exasperated perhaps that the fashion industry still worships the thin physique so stridently but savvy to the fact that this elite clique has little to do with our reality.

However, for an increasingly vocal few, this warped aesthetic is affirmation that their pursuit of thinness is positive and life changing. The Pro-ana movement seeks to redefine our understanding of eating disorders through an affiliation of websites that embrace anorexia as a lifestyle choice.

Size Zero! –

Remember when women aspired to be a perfect size 10? Well, forget that notion because these days a size 10 is seen as positively obese — at least in Hollywood.

A disturbing new phenomenon is heading across the Atlantic that deems the new ideal size an astonishing size zero — that’s a teensy UK size 4.

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Yet spurred on by a growing legion of super-skinny celebs including reality show star Nicole Richie, Superman actress Kate Bosworth and our own “skinny icon” Victoria Beckham, size 0 is now touted not only as an attainable, but a must-get goal by dedicated followers of fashion.

The trend is being forged in Los Angeles, where “thin” has long equalled happy but where “size-zero envy” is the new buzz-phrase on people’s lips.

“Negative” Sizing: The Size Zero Debate –

But how many of us know anyone with a waist smaller than 23 inches or a bust that is no larger than 31 inches? Apparently, anyone who shops at Marc Jacobs is a likely candidate.

They Call them the Size 0 Girls and most Weigh not much more –

The upscale meat packing district of lower Manhattan is where the beautiful people gather after dark. Tottering in their high heels over cobblestones come wave after wave of immaculately groomed young women, their tummies concave, their legs like toothpicks, and with waists so teeny-tiny they’re optical illusions.

Holding up a Pair of Size Zero jeans…

… seemed to bring home to these women how hard and unhappy life must be as a female celebrity.

The Mindset: Anorexia and Thinspiration

Fat Independence: Be Perfect… Be Beautiful… Be You

Anorexia may be a harmful activity. We do not encourage this activity.

Here is a Pro Ana Webring with motivation and advice –

Make an ANA scrapbook with pics of skinny models. Write down all the reasons you want to lose weight. Keep track of everything you eat. Look at it daily for thinspiration.

Quick and the dead

With Inspirational Art in many thin shapes and forms, the goals are set.

Cravings: Satisfy or Resist?

Give in to cravings or employ all the willpower it takes to suppress and eventually defeat the longing? Is it about indulging in the forbidden fruit or about replenishing the desperately needed fuel?

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