eating disorders

During coronavirus lockdown, food has become a central part of our lives. But for Marie Lamensch, who suffers from an eating disorder, being at home and stuck with food is like her version of hell.

But eating disorder foundation fights back

Models will now have to provide proof they are in good health

Plus, the birth of forensic science, Portia de Rossi’s eating disorders and a New Yorker writer’s new novel

Researchers are finally exploring distress at the dinner table

German photographer Ivonne Thein intended her bold new photographic exhibition, “Thirty-Two Kilos,” which opened yesterday at the Goerthe Institute in Washington, D.C.,  to telegraph a harsh anti-anorexia message and to serve as a critique of  the fashion industry’s fixation on skeletally thin models.  The 29 year old, whose portfolio includes high fashion shots, used 14 friends as models, then digitally manipulated their bodies to grotesquely emaciated proportions (click here to view).  A Washington Post review reports the most common response among visitors has been “horror.” But in an all-too-predictable development,  “pro-ana” (pro-anorexia)  websites, sick havens that celebrate the eating disorder as a “positive lifestyle choice,” have seized upon the images  as “thinspiration” to goad the afflicted to starve themselves even further.  Thein is now being unfairly criticized for feeding the monstrous affliction.  Yet her manipulated images look positively robust next to the lifeless, occasionally headless models featured in Dolce & Gabbana’s gushed-about new coffee table book, Diamonds and Pearls. For a glimpse of these new plastic role models, click here.

Cafeteria dining, independent living, and competition linked to the development of disordered eating