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Anorexic Celebrities: Artists Photoshop Celebrity Bodies To Spread Awareness About Anorexia
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The worth1000 sites (closed in January) and Freaking News make photo editing contests and always with social awareness-raising issues related to popular celebrities.
I selected some images of a contest, where the theme was celebrity weight loss. "Let us help prevent eating disorders from spreading among celebrities and politicians, by showing them what they would look like if they were anorexic"- wrote Freaking News in the description of the competition. And we do agree with their message, as beauty standards and body image understanding seem to be going more and more unrealistic each year.
The anorexic models created for the contest were shocking yet amazing.
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Angelina Jolie By Gwenovich From Worth1000
Beyonce By Hidreley From Freakingnews
Jennifer Aniston By Fotofantaz From Freakingnews
obviously these edits were made by guy, cuz boobs are still there and that's not how it works - boobs are basically fat, so there's not much left of it in anorexic people
Sandra Bullock By Renata 33 From Worth1000
Jennifer Lopez By Funkwood From Worth1000
I don't know if this is exaggerated, but either way it's a scary thing, anorexia
Keira Knightley By Aluresky From Freakingnews
Katie Holmes By Ariel 9 From Worth1000
Lindsay Lohan & Nicole Richie By Fotofantaz From Freakingnews
Eva Mendez By Fotofantaz From Freakingnews
Lindsay Lohan By Nilo From Freakingnews
Anorexic people have no breasts anymore ... well at least not like these :(
!["Karen Complains To HR About My Body, I Uno-Reverse Her Complaint, [And Now] Everyone Hates Her"](https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/coworker-complains-to-hr-about-womans-body-revenge-latest.jpg "\"Karen Complains To HR About My Body, I Uno-Reverse Her Complaint, [And Now] Everyone Hates Her\"")
Not everybody with Anorexia looks like this.
They do, if they do it long enough. My friend, who died after 20 years of this, looked exactly like that, only her limbs weren't quite that long and her face looked like a mummy's - with the shape of her teeth showing through the super tight skin on her face. Anorexia is only pretty while the sufferers are under 25. It smells viscous, too, btw, like a rotting corpse - sweet and sickly. The thinspo pics never show how a person smells whose body devours itself. It means an unhappy life ending in a horrible death. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
I have never commented on Bored Panda, but I feel the need to on this one. For as major of a problem anorexia is, I believe it is incredibly underestimated in how in manifests. Vanity is often not the key motivator for many people, just one of the ways in which the disorder manifests. There are incredible biological predispositions at work in those with anorexia. Check out The Atlantic's "The Challenge of Treating Anorexia in Adults." I feel that posting these "deterrent" photos severely reduces the complexity of those suffering from anorexia and, if anything, just piles on more crippling guilt (See? This is ugly. Why can't you just eat?).
I agree, like with bulimia or morbid obesity, these eating disorders are a manifestation of larger issues. These photos are like tell a person with depression they looked better when they smile.
That’s exactly how I feel. I had a baby and gained a lot of weight. My partner was abusive about it. Told me everyday how unattractive I was and “when are you gonna lose that baby weight” was a constant question. It plagued the deepest parts of my mind. He told me that the photos I posted were just the angle and that I was a catfish after losing 50 pounds. Well I lost another 50. 100 pounds in 8 months and now, being hospitalized 6 times is still not enough to help me overcome the fear of eating. I fear that 1 gram of sugar will bring me back to where I started. I fear fat will just magnetize itself to me if I put it in my stomach. But every says “you look great just eat” it’s not about how I look. I lost my family when My partner left me because I was too fat. So now I fear if I gain any weight at all I will lose someone I love. It’s like telling someone afraid of heights to go skydiving, pushing them out of the plane, then wondering why they died of a heart attack.
Dear me. That shows perfectly society's view on anorexia. These photoshop ladies are skeletons with an estimated life time of 4 weeks. Anorexia starts lots earlier, and most of all it starts in your brain. These pictures suggest that this diaease is a problem of the body, when it's really a problem of mind. Do you have some friend who wants to lose weight without being able to say, wich weight is her/ his aim? Do you have some friend who's overambitious and always willing to give his best, no matter how tired she/ he is? Even if she/ he looks perfectly normal: THAT's the point, you should have close but friendly look at her. If she looks like in these pics, game is nearly over.
Not everybody with Anorexia looks like this.
They do, if they do it long enough. My friend, who died after 20 years of this, looked exactly like that, only her limbs weren't quite that long and her face looked like a mummy's - with the shape of her teeth showing through the super tight skin on her face. Anorexia is only pretty while the sufferers are under 25. It smells viscous, too, btw, like a rotting corpse - sweet and sickly. The thinspo pics never show how a person smells whose body devours itself. It means an unhappy life ending in a horrible death. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
I have never commented on Bored Panda, but I feel the need to on this one. For as major of a problem anorexia is, I believe it is incredibly underestimated in how in manifests. Vanity is often not the key motivator for many people, just one of the ways in which the disorder manifests. There are incredible biological predispositions at work in those with anorexia. Check out The Atlantic's "The Challenge of Treating Anorexia in Adults." I feel that posting these "deterrent" photos severely reduces the complexity of those suffering from anorexia and, if anything, just piles on more crippling guilt (See? This is ugly. Why can't you just eat?).
I agree, like with bulimia or morbid obesity, these eating disorders are a manifestation of larger issues. These photos are like tell a person with depression they looked better when they smile.
That’s exactly how I feel. I had a baby and gained a lot of weight. My partner was abusive about it. Told me everyday how unattractive I was and “when are you gonna lose that baby weight” was a constant question. It plagued the deepest parts of my mind. He told me that the photos I posted were just the angle and that I was a catfish after losing 50 pounds. Well I lost another 50. 100 pounds in 8 months and now, being hospitalized 6 times is still not enough to help me overcome the fear of eating. I fear that 1 gram of sugar will bring me back to where I started. I fear fat will just magnetize itself to me if I put it in my stomach. But every says “you look great just eat” it’s not about how I look. I lost my family when My partner left me because I was too fat. So now I fear if I gain any weight at all I will lose someone I love. It’s like telling someone afraid of heights to go skydiving, pushing them out of the plane, then wondering why they died of a heart attack.
Dear me. That shows perfectly society's view on anorexia. These photoshop ladies are skeletons with an estimated life time of 4 weeks. Anorexia starts lots earlier, and most of all it starts in your brain. These pictures suggest that this diaease is a problem of the body, when it's really a problem of mind. Do you have some friend who wants to lose weight without being able to say, wich weight is her/ his aim? Do you have some friend who's overambitious and always willing to give his best, no matter how tired she/ he is? Even if she/ he looks perfectly normal: THAT's the point, you should have close but friendly look at her. If she looks like in these pics, game is nearly over.