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Anorexic Celebrities: Artists Photoshop Celebrity Bodies To Spread Awareness About Anorexia
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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Dovilė Aurėja 9 years ago
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
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I don't know if this is exaggerated, but either way it's a scary thing, anorexia
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Nathalie Debay 9 years ago
Anorexic people have no breasts anymore ... well at least not like these :(
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Katinka Min 9 years ago
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.
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Jackie Hackett 9 years ago
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?).
MD 9 years ago
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.
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Gregor Meyer-Bender 9 years ago
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.
Sarah-Jane Lowes 9 years ago
Bored Panda I strongly urge you to remove this awful, irresponsible post.
Sarah-Jane Lowes 9 years ago
This is horrendous. What right do you have to violate another person's body without their permission? This isn't spreading awareness. This is shaming women to prove a point?! Most of whom are perfectly healthy. I do not support Anorexia but this s****y project missed the point.
Sarah Roghelia 9 years ago
I generally don't comment on things like this, but this made me particularly angry. Most people suffering anorexia nervosa die at a relatively normal weight. You only have to be 15% under "ideal" body weight for diagnosis. To put that in perspective, a 25-year-old female of average height (5' 4") only needs to be 110-120 pounds to be "under ideal weight" (depending on which ideal weight calculator you use). This is NOT to say that anyone who is 120 pounds at 5' 4" is anorexic, but rather to put it in perspective how anorexia does not necessarily mean looking like a skeleton. Most sufferers do NOT look like this, which is exactly why they struggle to be taken seriously and get help - society perpetuates this idea that anorexia means being 80 pounds with every rib visible. This also allows many sufferers to tell themselves that they "aren't that sick". Far more harm than good comes from this.
Amy Hedges 9 years ago
Not really all that far off on some.. but they still have boob's, which seems off.
Jules MacAllister-Wentzel 9 years ago
A few of these look like the girls in the latest Victoria Secret Catalogue.
Emma Ryan 9 years ago
Could people stop sharing these pictures already? Reposting these just makes them more available for pro-ana sites to copy and paste onto their pages as "thinspo". Even though they're fake, many people with eating disorders still idolize these images and look to them as proof they need to lose more. Maybe they were taken down in the first place for a reason?
Rimsha Khalid 9 years ago
Ewwww this is creepy and ugly I'm sorry but this is not really helping anorexic people feel any better
Savdat02 9 years ago
Not getting why all of these are women. I mean yeah if you search it up its more common in women but there are men too. Anyways this is a
Torsten Nielsen 9 years ago
I don't think it is very well done. Still looks quite photoshopped and not that real. But I understand the message.
Singers Soul 9 years ago
This isn't what most people with anorexia look like. Did you get there permission for this???????
Anja Gostović 9 years ago
Holy s**t. You guys deleted the post from fb after it garnered negative attention. Talk about censorship.
Alissa Tipton 8 years ago
Inspiring article! Great, as usual! Keep up the good work! Post processing service is always on point. Unfortunately I can’t repeat it by myself. I give my pics to editouch or fixthephoto.com. These photo editing companies know how to work with clients. And photo retouching prices are just smashing considering the quality of online photo retouching.
Katinka Min 9 years ago
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.
Load More Replies... Jackie Hackett 9 years ago
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?).
MD 9 years ago
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.
Load More Replies... Gregor Meyer-Bender 9 years ago
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.
Sarah-Jane Lowes 9 years ago
Bored Panda I strongly urge you to remove this awful, irresponsible post.
Sarah-Jane Lowes 9 years ago
This is horrendous. What right do you have to violate another person's body without their permission? This isn't spreading awareness. This is shaming women to prove a point?! Most of whom are perfectly healthy. I do not support Anorexia but this s****y project missed the point.
Sarah Roghelia 9 years ago
I generally don't comment on things like this, but this made me particularly angry. Most people suffering anorexia nervosa die at a relatively normal weight. You only have to be 15% under "ideal" body weight for diagnosis. To put that in perspective, a 25-year-old female of average height (5' 4") only needs to be 110-120 pounds to be "under ideal weight" (depending on which ideal weight calculator you use). This is NOT to say that anyone who is 120 pounds at 5' 4" is anorexic, but rather to put it in perspective how anorexia does not necessarily mean looking like a skeleton. Most sufferers do NOT look like this, which is exactly why they struggle to be taken seriously and get help - society perpetuates this idea that anorexia means being 80 pounds with every rib visible. This also allows many sufferers to tell themselves that they "aren't that sick". Far more harm than good comes from this.
Amy Hedges 9 years ago
Not really all that far off on some.. but they still have boob's, which seems off.
Jules MacAllister-Wentzel 9 years ago
A few of these look like the girls in the latest Victoria Secret Catalogue.
Emma Ryan 9 years ago
Could people stop sharing these pictures already? Reposting these just makes them more available for pro-ana sites to copy and paste onto their pages as "thinspo". Even though they're fake, many people with eating disorders still idolize these images and look to them as proof they need to lose more. Maybe they were taken down in the first place for a reason?
Rimsha Khalid 9 years ago
Ewwww this is creepy and ugly I'm sorry but this is not really helping anorexic people feel any better
Savdat02 9 years ago
Not getting why all of these are women. I mean yeah if you search it up its more common in women but there are men too. Anyways this is a
Torsten Nielsen 9 years ago
I don't think it is very well done. Still looks quite photoshopped and not that real. But I understand the message.
Singers Soul 9 years ago
This isn't what most people with anorexia look like. Did you get there permission for this???????
Anja Gostović 9 years ago
Holy s**t. You guys deleted the post from fb after it garnered negative attention. Talk about censorship.
Alissa Tipton 8 years ago
Inspiring article! Great, as usual! Keep up the good work! Post processing service is always on point. Unfortunately I can’t repeat it by myself. I give my pics to editouch or fixthephoto.com. These photo editing companies know how to work with clients. And photo retouching prices are just smashing considering the quality of online photo retouching.
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