Do Child Models End up with Eating Disorders?
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I watched a series lately that showed a mother pushing her daughter into modelling. The young girl definitely was model material, but by the end of the season (one year later), the young girl looked ill. It was obvious she had lost weight when she didn’t have any to lose.
Her mother (a retired model) said how proud she was of her daughter. I felt physically sick. I felt this was child abuse and that she should take her daughter to the doctor for help with a very clear eating disorder.
I think it happens more than people think P
Thin models are what people expect and perceive as normal , despite campaigns to promote oversize models , its the way society is social media does not help
But how do you know it was an eating disorder? What because she lost weight? She could actually just eat healthy and do some sort of exercise
I have experience of Anorexia / bulimia, was an awful experience, 4 stone and in hospital being tube fed.. if anyone is experiencing it with someone please don’t ignore it it’s so important. Can be so clever at hiding and denying it.
LL81 it happened years ago my friend came in the pub I worked in and I'm not going to lie she's skin and bones and there was a few men saying not nice things about her saying the drugs must be hard on her making out she was a crack head so I told them they should never judge a book by the cover and I hope they are ashamed of themselves and they were when I said she had ms
It's the same has any disorder, there are things that can trigger it. Like, eating disorders can be triggered by a career in modeling, the pressures of being slim can escalate into an eating disorder, but it all depends on the model themselves.
It can happen to anyone though industries like fashion it's probably easier to develop an eating disorder due to the nature of it. Personally I'd never allow my child to go down that route as a minor for that reason.
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