Word: bulimias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Watching Diana's painful interview (for us and for her), wherein every second word seemed to be 'bulimia', I could almost feel the monarchy's credibility erode like a sugar cube in hot tea. There was Diana, in a stunning black jacket with white blouse, pouring her heart out: conspiracy theories involving Charles's "team" trying to portray her as a loony; stale revelations about trysts with horseback riding instructors and crank calls to millionaires; and those mediocre scripted phrases: "There were three of us in the marriage; it was getting a bit crowded." Oh please. We can almost...
...tell-all television interview that had the British as well as their Americans cousins waiting with bated breath this last week, Diana discussed private issues such as her bulimia, her infidelity, and her thoughts on what she once referred to as "this f--ing family." While this may have won her the support of the public, Diana's motives and methods reveal her to be hardly a victim of the system. Her public reception highlights a society where sympathy increasingly goes to squealers...
...addition, there is the notion that this type of public revelation is always the hardest to make, and that Diana made a gutsy decision. To this, one has to respond that Diana did not reveal anything that most people did not already know. We were aware of her bulimia, of her infidelity and of the difficulties of her former life. What Diana accomplished, in essence, was offering the public the first willing player with whom to identify, someone open to any sympathy and who, in her admitted bid for popular support, was, in fact, garnering it as a political tool...
With all of England but the royal family tuned in, Princess Diana appeared on the BBC show "Panorama" tonight to say that her marital woes drove her to bulimia. Though her hour-long interview with reporter Martin Bashir offered no bombshells about the monarchy, Diana did continue the relatively new tradition of royal confessional. "I desperately wanted [the marriage] to work," she said of her 14-year marriage to Prince Charles. "I desperately loved my husband and I wanted to share everything with him, and I thought we were a very good team." Diana also said that the news...
...said it was important for younger women not to get the wrong idea--thin does not always equal healthy, and she urged women to balance fitness with the risk of developing an eating disorder like anorexia or bulimia...