The popularity of these noxious images has driven Facebook and Tumblr to change their guidelines to try to prevent against images that encourage self-harm-which includes these pro-anorexia images. “Now they don’t have to have someone in their real world to compare themselves to. “Girls are always saying 'Am I the thinnest one in the room?' says Cynthia Bulik, director of the University of North Carolina Eating Disorders Program and author of The Woman in the Mirror: How to Stop Confusing What You Look Like With Who You Are. “And some have become addicted to these sites.” “Some patients have their own peer group which reinforces their quest for thinness,” she says. “If It Were Easy, Everyone Would Be Thin.” “The Difference Between Want and Need Is Self Control.” “Sweat Is Fat Crying.” A playful e-card even makes light of the disturbing trend: “Pinterest: Thank you for making me want to work out like a complete psycho and eat desserts all night…simultaneously.”Īdrienne Ressler, a body image specialist at the Renfrew Center, estimates that 100 percent of her patients are aware of pro-anorexia websites. “To Know You’re The Best Looking Girl on The Beach,” reads one thinspirational message. ![]() In scores of photos, girls frolic on beaches in skimpy bikinis, pull down their underwear to reveal a jutting hipbone, or roll up their T-shirts to take pictures of their flat stomachs in the bathroom mirror. The photo is part of a growing number of pro-anorexic and “thinspirational” images on sites like Pinterest, Tumblr, and Facebook. “It doesn’t matter what people think about me but like I said before the comments make me push harder and harder each day because I know I can prove anyone wrong.” “I am overweight and I do look at SOME of these woman and strive to be like them because I know I need to get my weight under control and with a little help from this quote I will make them regret all the snotty little side comments and the whispers,” one wrote. “Because compromising your health because of what some douchebag says about you is the best idea ever.”īut others defended the post. ![]() It may seem like a disturbing image to be floating around the site-getting pinned and re-pinned-and some users noted that it sent a dangerous message. Over her chest are block letters that read: “Make them regret the day they dared call you fat.” Somewhere in the sea of images on Pinterest, the popular social-networking site that allows users to share images, there’s a black-and-white photo of a bony girl in a tank top.
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