Word: bulimia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entirely surprising that Hemingway, constantly seeking to revive her career, allowed this anguished session to be taped for a BBC triumph-over-adversity program called Fighting Back. Hemingway had been invited to talk about her successful battle with bulimia. But the eating disorder was only one of many afflictions that she suffered--and it was far too soon to declare victory over her demons...
...also embraced therapies for herself, spending as much as $12,000 a year on colonic irrigation and aromatherapy. Though tabloid stories about her troubles have circulated for years, it was startling to hear the Princess talk freely in the Panorama interview about the times when she suffered from "rampant bulimia" and attempted to mutilate herself: "I just hurt my arms and my legs." Diana acknowledged her affair with James Hewitt, who authorized a tell-all book. The interview also revealed that she has mastered current pop-psych speak: alluding to other women who harm themselves physically, she said...
...word of mouth. The current No. 1 paperback best seller, Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (Ballantine; $12.50), has the combination just right. Dozens of troubled teenage girls troop across its pages: composite sketches of Charlottes, Whitneys and Danielles who were raped, who have bulimia, who have pierced bodies or shaved heads, who are coping with strict religious families or are felled by their parents' bitter divorce. There's a girl here for everyone: either the girl the reader once was or the sullen one now lolling about the reader's house listening to Hole...
...PRINCESS DIANA INTERVIEW (ABC) With a composed fragility, the Princess of Wales yanked the royal family into the age of public confession. Her disclosures--that her marriage was a shambles, that she had suffered from bulimia--weren't shocking. But her doe-eye candor was. Some found it calculated, but most viewers opened their hearts to the world's most famous victim...
...Jenny Jones--was a bit of a bombshell coming from a member of the royal family. Yes, she knew her husband was making nasty with Camilla Parker Bowles in 1986, thanks to "woman's instinct" and "people who cared about our marriage." Yes, this worsened her bulimia and self-abuse. Yes, she hurt her own arms and legs. And yes, she had her own affair, with James Hewitt, her riding instructor. But no, she didn't make all those calls to a London art dealer; a "young boy" did it (right after he ate her homework...