Word: anorexia
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...they complain that there is a crisis in the health of the American novel, that nobody likes to read novels anymore-would-be readers would rather watch movies. Wolfe sees the same problem, and proposes a solution: "The American novel is dying, not of obsolescence, but of anorexia. It needs...food. It needs novelists with huge appetites and mighty, unslaked thirsts for...America...as she is right now. It needs novelists with the energy and the verve to approach America the way her moviemakers do, which is to say, with a ravenous curiosity and an urge to go out among...
...While Faiman is inspired in part by her own personal encounters with bulimia and anorexia, this isn't self-revelation for its own sake: "The only reason that I mention that is because I think there are a lot of girls at this school who have eating problems and who are still in denial or are still ashamed to do anything about it... I don't think it is something to be ashamed of, and I don't mind admitting that I have problems with...
...jogging track. After all, even the producers are alert to the fact that the most dramatic moments of the show will come when contestants indulge in melancholy, desperate eating binges, subsequently feel remorse and then frantically run around the jogging track until they vomit and cry. Hooray for anorexia! Cheers for bulemia! It's a morally bankrupt idea and it makes even a cynical bastard like me sort of queasy, but I'm also slightly intrigued by the possibilities of sabotage once the field is narrowed to two or three. Just think of the potential scenarios! Instead of Survivor-esque...
...humiliated and exploited. More and more young men and women are signing up with costly, dubious Indian modeling institutes, where a two-week session and a photo portfolio can run up to $1,000. The desire to break through to the beauty elite can force women into unsavory situations. Anorexia and steroid abuse are increasing. There are many stories of fixed contests, nepotism and the casting couch. "Most of our people are out-of-towners," says Atul Kelkar, a manager of Smiles, a Bombay model-training agency. "I tell them that the amount of trouble you get into is directly...
...understand and respect that it is different for a lot of the other girls.i For a lot of the girls involved in modeling, the lifestyle can be dangerous. Chinwe has the unique position of being asked by her managers to gain weight, instead of starving herself. But bulimia and anorexia are common in the industry, as are drugs. iYou see it,i Chinwe says. iYouill be sitting next to someone who will excuse themselves for the bathroom and then come back with lots of energy.i Young girls on their own, away from their parents and in foreign countries...