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Model and Mom
Model Sessilee Lopez’s mom, Janice Celeste, has written a guide book for parents of aspiring mannequins called Making a Supermodel, which she self-published on Lulu.com. It sounds in part really silly (in a chapter entitled 12 Signs Your Daughter Should Become a High Fashion Model, #8 is “Everywhere she goes, people ask her if she is a model.”–thanks a million) but the final chapter is devoted to health and body image, and Celeste says:
“I’ve seen some life-threatening measures models have gone through to lose weight. Luckily my daughter has never had a weight problem that kick-boxing couldn’t solve. I personally know of one model who dipped cotton balls in orange juice and consumed it to feel full. Later it came out that she had anorexia.”
Growing up I knew a “girl who knew a girl” who was a ballerina and possibly maybe died from a cotton ball diet. I always figured this was just an urban legend. No?
(via Fashionista)
i know its not healthy but the anorexic me really wants to try it.
If these women actually ate healthy FOOD in small portions 3-5 times a day, they wouldn’t have to resort to these extreme diets. Not eating is what slows your metabolism and makes your muscles atrophy and sag.
Eat all the food you want but don’t like. problem solved
Eating just apple sauce and drinking coffee work just as well and less likely to kill you.
It will also make you extremely malnourished.
I know for a fact that people do this; a lot of the girls in the weightloss community I’m a membert of on Livejournal do it
I suffer from Bambakomallophobia (fear of cotton wool – no joke) so regular chocolate for me it is…
cant you like… DIE? doing that?
YES. Not only can any poor diet recommended by idiots cause you to get very sick but cotton ball diets have the potential to cause bowel obstructions.
Didn’t people also do this to get out of fighting in Vietnam? How fucked up is it that gaining weight has become comparible to dodging grenades in Beirut?
Beirut is the capital oh Lebanon, which is on a whole other continent than Vietnam.
F is the second letter of “of,” which is a whole other word than “oh.”
Wow.
The part of me that used to be anorexic is really wondering if that works.
The normal, rational part of me thinks that’s really awful.
Nice to know I’m not the only one with a stifled unhealthily underweight girl inside of her going ‘Oh man why didn’t I think of that.’
My relatively-new-found external fat girl just wants to eat more, because stories about these sorts of things just make me remember why I love food and how much my life sucked when I didn’t eat. Probably why I got fat instead of healthy. Oops.
So glad I’m not alone…’cause there’s seriously a part of me eyeing the cotton balls on my shelves. I think I’ll go have an actual orange instead.
As a therapist, I’ve had a couple of clients in practice that have eaten cotton balls to stay full.
Is there an “office products” cookbook?
hahahaha +1
Ballerinas do this same thing… paper eating is another thing they do to stay thin. I never went to this extreme, but it doesn’t surprise me.