It takes effort and maybe anorexia to be model-thin
BY ELLEN CREAGER
When model Christie Brinkley needs to get skinny, she consumes a liquid diet of fruit and vegetable juices. Waif-like ice skater Peggy Fleming eats a slice of toast for breakfast and a half-cup of rice for dinner. Model Elle Macpherson chooses between lunch or dinner, but not both. She also does 500 sit-ups a day.
You want to look like a model or movie star? Have the body mass index of an 8-year-old. Models and female movie stars' dubious secrets of fitness and dieting are shared by author and former model Diane Irons in her new book, "The World's Best-Kept Diet Secrets" (Sourcebooks, $14.95). "The difference is, their looks have become their fortune, so they have pulled every trick in the book to get thin and stay there. Their livelihood depends on it," Irons says.
While Irons' book is fascinating because it dares to share the outrageous measures to which models and actresses will go to stay slim, a more alarming new report comes from Dr. Patricia Owen, professor of psychology at St. Mary's University in San Antonio. Just about the time the government was compiling its sobering information about fat Americans and hefty BMIs, Owen and graduate student Erika Lauren compiled 500 models' statistics from the Web sites of modeling agencies and collected measurements of Playboy centerfolds from 1985 to 1997. They calculated the BMIs of both groups.
The result? One-quarter of each group met the American Psychological Association's weight criteria for anorexia nervosa -- a BMI of 17.5 or below.
Virtually all the centerfolds were underweight, and so were three-quarters of the models. Centerfolds have gotten increasingly thinner and less curvy over the years. "If these models are exemplars of beauty, then the measure for women is that to be beautiful, starvation-level thinness is required," Owen says. BMI figures compiled by the Free Press from Irons' book and celebrity Web sites confirm Owen's research and extend it to actresses. Actresses Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz and singer Diana Ross all have BMIs under 17.5. Supermodels Kate Moss, Niki Taylor and Elle Macpherson have BMIs under 17 and exist at "third world starvation BMI criteria," Owen says.
Lisa Dergan, Playboy's Miss July, has a BMI of 18.3, which is underweight and typical of centerfolds, whose BMIs hover at 18.2 in Owen's research (however, Michigan's Karen McDougal, 27, became 1998 Playmate of the Year with a healthy BMI of 19).
Very few weight and height statistics are available for heavier actors and actresses. In light of the new National Institutes of Health report on American obesity, the figures are ironic. "The models are getting skinnier and skinnier, and we're getting fatter," Owen says. "And women think, if the models are beautiful, what does that make me?" Sane, perhaps?
Tricks of the trade Irons' book reveals that in order to maintain BMIs of 16.5 or 17, models and actresses employ every oddball technique under the sun -- risky juice fasts, garlic and papaya diets, cabbage and grapefruit diets. They also follow simultaneously hilarious and frightening diet secrets that Irons swears work for the beautiful bodies:
Never eat any anything bigger than your head. "You'll only stretch your stomach out."
Don't swallow. "Models and other successful bodies are also known for taking a forbidden bite, chewing and spitting it out." Make your room freezing at night so you expend calories by shivering to keep warm.
If you get a craving for chocolate, take a whiff of strong perfume.
Put perfume on a hanky and "put it up to your nose when you pass a bakery."
Suck on a fruit pit for 15 minutes after you're done eating the fruit because "it keeps the flavor in my mouth, and makes me think I'm still enjoying the fruit."
Owens hopes that the new BMI figures will prompt Americans to focus not just on obesity, but on society's obsession with thinness in our sex and beauty symbols: "The new BMIs ...were looking at only the dangers of overweight -- which I think is very one-sided given the health dangers associated with being underweight."
Eli ilmeisesti suurin osa malleista ei olekaan luonnostaan laihoja. Aika sairailla tavoilla neki laihduttaa ja on olevinaan terveitä...
Linkkiä en pistä koska löysin tuon erään pro ana-sivuston kautta.
BY ELLEN CREAGER
When model Christie Brinkley needs to get skinny, she consumes a liquid diet of fruit and vegetable juices. Waif-like ice skater Peggy Fleming eats a slice of toast for breakfast and a half-cup of rice for dinner. Model Elle Macpherson chooses between lunch or dinner, but not both. She also does 500 sit-ups a day.
You want to look like a model or movie star? Have the body mass index of an 8-year-old. Models and female movie stars' dubious secrets of fitness and dieting are shared by author and former model Diane Irons in her new book, "The World's Best-Kept Diet Secrets" (Sourcebooks, $14.95). "The difference is, their looks have become their fortune, so they have pulled every trick in the book to get thin and stay there. Their livelihood depends on it," Irons says.
While Irons' book is fascinating because it dares to share the outrageous measures to which models and actresses will go to stay slim, a more alarming new report comes from Dr. Patricia Owen, professor of psychology at St. Mary's University in San Antonio. Just about the time the government was compiling its sobering information about fat Americans and hefty BMIs, Owen and graduate student Erika Lauren compiled 500 models' statistics from the Web sites of modeling agencies and collected measurements of Playboy centerfolds from 1985 to 1997. They calculated the BMIs of both groups.
The result? One-quarter of each group met the American Psychological Association's weight criteria for anorexia nervosa -- a BMI of 17.5 or below.
Virtually all the centerfolds were underweight, and so were three-quarters of the models. Centerfolds have gotten increasingly thinner and less curvy over the years. "If these models are exemplars of beauty, then the measure for women is that to be beautiful, starvation-level thinness is required," Owen says. BMI figures compiled by the Free Press from Irons' book and celebrity Web sites confirm Owen's research and extend it to actresses. Actresses Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz and singer Diana Ross all have BMIs under 17.5. Supermodels Kate Moss, Niki Taylor and Elle Macpherson have BMIs under 17 and exist at "third world starvation BMI criteria," Owen says.
Lisa Dergan, Playboy's Miss July, has a BMI of 18.3, which is underweight and typical of centerfolds, whose BMIs hover at 18.2 in Owen's research (however, Michigan's Karen McDougal, 27, became 1998 Playmate of the Year with a healthy BMI of 19).
Very few weight and height statistics are available for heavier actors and actresses. In light of the new National Institutes of Health report on American obesity, the figures are ironic. "The models are getting skinnier and skinnier, and we're getting fatter," Owen says. "And women think, if the models are beautiful, what does that make me?" Sane, perhaps?
Tricks of the trade Irons' book reveals that in order to maintain BMIs of 16.5 or 17, models and actresses employ every oddball technique under the sun -- risky juice fasts, garlic and papaya diets, cabbage and grapefruit diets. They also follow simultaneously hilarious and frightening diet secrets that Irons swears work for the beautiful bodies:
Never eat any anything bigger than your head. "You'll only stretch your stomach out."
Don't swallow. "Models and other successful bodies are also known for taking a forbidden bite, chewing and spitting it out." Make your room freezing at night so you expend calories by shivering to keep warm.
If you get a craving for chocolate, take a whiff of strong perfume.
Put perfume on a hanky and "put it up to your nose when you pass a bakery."
Suck on a fruit pit for 15 minutes after you're done eating the fruit because "it keeps the flavor in my mouth, and makes me think I'm still enjoying the fruit."
Owens hopes that the new BMI figures will prompt Americans to focus not just on obesity, but on society's obsession with thinness in our sex and beauty symbols: "The new BMIs ...were looking at only the dangers of overweight -- which I think is very one-sided given the health dangers associated with being underweight."
Eli ilmeisesti suurin osa malleista ei olekaan luonnostaan laihoja. Aika sairailla tavoilla neki laihduttaa ja on olevinaan terveitä...
Linkkiä en pistä koska löysin tuon erään pro ana-sivuston kautta.
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varmaan joskus tuollainen. Mulla vaan ei ole muuta elämää. OLisi super ihanaa....