Word: anorexia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comes at a time when the phenomenon of self-mutilation is beginning to be noticed. On Tuesday night, October 27, there was a special segment documenting two years in the life of a self-mutilator on Dateline NBC. During the segment, they repeatedly referred to the phenomenon as "the anorexia of the '90s." In 1997, self-mutilation was also the topic of a cover story in The New York Times Magazine...
Apparently it is possible to be too thin in Hollywood. As evidence, we offer the travails of Ally McBeal star CALISTA FLOCKHART, who has lately been the subject of rumors suggesting she is suffering from anorexia. In the show's first season, Ally's notorious upper-thigh-grazing skirts revealed an Audrey Hepburn-like reediness. But a skeleton-hugging sheath at last month's Emmys and this season's still shorter frocks seem to indicate a frame even more devoid of substance. When Flockhart missed a day of work recently, idle minds began speculating that it was because...
...began writing poems in her childhood but decided, once she understood her parents' renown, to keep them private "for the obvious reason that comparisons would be made." Instead, after a period of adolescent turmoil--anorexia, an impulsive and brief marriage to a biker at age 19--Hughes became a painter and an author of children's books. Eventually, she settled in Wooroloo, "a small hamlet, very small," in Australia, to paint landscapes of the stark, almost surreal terrain. And, as it happened, to write poetry that other people might read...
...esteem, girls still diet more than they should. A 1995 survey of 1,955 students in Grades 9 to 12 conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 60% of the girls were trying to lose weight, compared with 24% of the boys. More cases of anorexia and bulimia are reported every year, and between 5% and 10% of females 14 and older suffer from such disorders, according to the nonprofit group Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention. "I don't think in local communities and in schools we're seeing any real flowering of girl power," says...
Anorexic women often stop menstruating and grow excess body hair. Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder. Bulimics often purge upwards of five times a day. Fat people don't smell and aren't always lazy. Binge eaters have no concept of hunger or fullness...