Word: anorexia
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...Bulimia, like the closely related condition Anorexia nervosa, often strike women who are intelligent, achievement oriented and from upper middle class, seemingly perfect, families. The Ivy League in general probably has more than a normal share of Bulimics and Anorexics," he said...
...Some of the things I do, I am not keen on myself for doing," Whitaker admits. He has a clear conscience, however, about the anorexia story, which ran under the banner IS IT ALL GETTING TOO MUCH FOR DIANA? RUBBISH! countered the rubbishy News of the World. Thunderous denunciations of one another's outrages are standard among Fleet Street papers, and no one takes offense, because it is all part of the game that readers follow with relish. Whitaker came out of the anorexia episode thinking well of himself. As the weeks went by and Diana did not appear...
...Daily Mail's influential gossip columnist Nigel Dempster. He claims that he attends many parties that royals do, and when he is leaving he sees Whitaker in the bushes. He insists that he is not a royal-watcher but a "social policeman." About the time that Whitaker diagnosed anorexia, however, Dempster indulged himself with a lofty and fairly encyclopedic denunciation of Diana's faults. It was he who said that she was spoiled, fiendish and a monster, that she was spending too much money on clothes shaming the nation's upper classes by having temper tantrums that drove staff...
DIED. Karen Carpenter, 32, dulcet-voiced singing half, opposite her pianist-arranger brother Richard, of the squeaky-clean Carpenters; of an apparent heart attack (she had suffered earlier from anorexia nervosa); in Downey, Calif. Since 1969, their ballads (Close to You, We've Only Just Begun) have sold 80 million records and tapes, won three Grammy Awards...
McCarthy has put on some poundage and muscle since then--bulk she desperately needed. "During freshman year I was still recovering from anorexia (an eating disorder)," she says. In high school McCarthy was obsessed with dieting and lost more than 10 pounds to register a meager 64 pounds on the scale. "My ballet teacher was in hysterics." McCarthy remembers. "she brought me all sports of things like natural peanut butter. But of course when people are pushing food on you, you just want it less...