Keira denies anorexia rumours

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Keira denies anorexia rumours
July 5, 2006

Buttercup...

Almost nobody ever admits to this disease till they enter a rehab.

Buttercup...

I've know a girl afflicted with anorexia and she feels she looks fat.
Till they carry her out on a stetcher to a hospital or worse - she
won't admit that she needs help.

avery...

Have you ever seen a "real" anorexic?

Ilene Bilenky...

I sure have, in my professional capacity. Of course, I only see people
who are coming in-patient and are quite ill.

But people can have other eating disorders and not show it, namely,
binge eating/purging. Their weights may be normal or close to it, but
they are very ill.

I do think the Hollywood pressure to be thin leads people to eating
disordered thinking, without question. But remember, most of these
female stars are very young, meaning, they likely have pretty lively
metabolisms. Even eating healthily and normally, they might well be
quite thin, or whatever their basic body type will be.

That said, I think the kind of dress that Knightly wore is just tacky
looking- immodest, whether one has small, huge, or no boobs to show.
They just plain look nekked.

Pamela Anderson looks disfigured. But then, I'm a gal.

Ilene b

mc...

Yes when I looked in the mirror circa 1979... :\

Being skinny, or being obsessed with being skinny, is fairly typical. If
Keira gained 10 pounds we'd be writing threads about how fat (or how
"healthy"--or....ughh..."curvy") she is. So you can't win.

Stinky...

You need to lay off the crack.

avery...

Ah! So it's intelligent discourse you're after, you crafty wizard!

There were a bunch of anorexic girls at the endocrinology ward I visited
because I had to interview somebody there for some project. They were there
not for hormonal problems but because food is so carefully monitored on that
floor. Anyway, they were like walking skeletons - broomsticks. Absolutely
terrifying, like Auschwitz images.
Obviously not every anorexic person is at that stage from Day One, but
there's a huge terrifying obsession/fear of food, rituals, and usually
extreme insecurity, reclusiveness, etc....
It's perfectly natural for already skinny girls to lose more weight when
they're excited, nervous, in love, buzzing around. I think "anorexia" is one
of today's most overused terms (okay, after "supermodel" and "hero") and I
think it's because we're so used to seeing Botero-round people, especially
in America, that they've practically become the new norm.

subscriber1997...

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like most if not all disease processes
Anorexia can be plotted on a spectrum
from barely noticeable to ghastly and life
threatening

we're all mostly too fat!

tho i remain a svelte 190 ( 6-1 )

Rick in Oz...

......unfortunately you just have a *certain part* of the your anatomy that
is VERY anorexic .....

Keira Knightleyat the premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
at London's Odeon Leicester Square on Monday.
Photo: AP Photo/Ian West

Oscar-nominated actress Keira Knightley has acknowledged her family has a
history of anorexia but said that she doesn't suffer from an eating

subscriber1997...

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your never slackening obsession
with my wee wee is an earmark
of a very very sick individual IMHO

disorder.

The slender 21-year-old, in London to promote Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead
Man's Chest, rejected suggestions that she suffers from an eating disorder,
which surfaced after she appeared at the film's premiere in a revealing gold
Gucci gown.

"I've got a lot of experience with anorexia - my grandmother and
great-grandmother suffered from it, and I had a lot of friends at school who

mc...

Well there ya go...it runs in the family the way alcoholism does...this
isn't helping your denial, Keira!

mc...whose mother, great aunt, aunt, and sister suffered besides myself

suffered from it," Knightley told a news conference. "I know it's not
something to be taken lightly and I don't."

She said she was surprised by any suggestion that she had an eating
disorder.

"The press said to me yesterday 'How does it feel to be called anorexic?'
and I had no idea that I was," Knightley said. "I'm not saying there aren't
people in the film industry that suffer from it, because I am sure that
there are. But I'm quite sure I don't have it."

Knightley, who was nominated for best-actress for her role in Pride and
Prejudice, said she welcomed discussion about the illness.

"In a way it's good that it's out there and that people are talking about
it," she said.

- AP