So this has been bothering me. In fact, it's been bothering me so much that I've been trying to ignore it, in the hopes that if I pretended I didn't see it, it would just go away. But it hasn't, and I can ignore it no longer.
A tremendous number of folks have been led to my blog lately by searching for "anorexic celebrities" or "how to be anorexic" or similar. Y'all, this is so not the place where you should be if you are in the kind of headspace that leads to those searches. Seriously. I'm a terrible fucking example and reading my going on and on about my issues with my body cannot possibly be helping. So, if that's the search that led you here, please oh please do not hesitate to skip my blog altogether and mosey over to the blogs of some of my friends, especially those with healthy, inspirational body image. I'd suggest Frog and Scand for starters. If that doesn't appeal, maybe try Hugs International, who I hear good things about.
And remember you are beautiful. I know, 'cuz I am, too. :)
Comments (1)
I am honored that I made your list of people with healthy body images. I should point out, tho, that I also struggle with "fat" days, feeling periodically out of control over my eating habits, admiring women who are pencil thin. And I can know that this is totally fucked up and still look at myself and see fat. Then on other days I feel thin and beautiful for no other reason than because I was "good" that day with respect to my eating. It's fucked up, but how does one end it? And then I just found out that one of my college roommates and best friends just spent 2 months in a California hospital for an eating disorder. She said she's always struggled with different kinds of eating disorders, and I feel like such an ass, because I never recognized it. I thought she was "healthy", for god's sake. How does this happen to women?
Posted by Scand79 | May 25, 2005 10:36 AM