Word: bulimias
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...reason people hate the show is because they don't like the people on the show. We saw Princess Di on T.V. talking about cheating on her husband and about her bulimia. No one said 'How dare she.' No. She looked great and spoke the Queen's English...
...know, I just hate phoney people, and Margaret just seems to be phoney about everything. She always talks about high school and middle school and her babysitters, and how damaging her father was to her mind. On and on she goes. She says her growing-up was filled with bulimia, panic attacks, chronic fatigue and depression. I feel really bad for her, really, I mean it. I know how she feels to have things just depress you for no goddamn reason. But J.D. doesn't sound like that bad of a guy. Fights his own demons, of course...
...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...
...tension. But remaining is Sloane's Marcy/Tori, a brilliant comic creation down to her slightest tic, squeak and emotion-punctuating chest thrust. Marcy is really Pointe's most likable character, a good-hearted dim bulb made a nervous wreck by gossip and the stress of looking impossibly good. (A bulimia scene, also cut, was a cruel but apt picture of the flip side of TV's hot-body worship.) Star's using his past for laughs, yes, but not without heart...
...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...