Feature articles on celebrities with anorexia
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Jameela Jamil reveals long-term impact of anorexia
This story contains descriptions of eating disorders that some readers may find distressing.
Jameela Jamil has said her battle with an eating disorder has “destroyed” her bone density and damaged “my kidney, my liver, my digestive system, my heart”.
The actress added that she had taken "so many laxatives" in her teens that she was "amazed" she hadn't done more damage to her digestive system.
Speaking to Kelly Ripa on her Let's Talk Off Camera podcast, Jamil said the condition started at a young age, after she had to weigh herself in front of her class for a school project.
Although she started eating more regularly at the age of 19, the star said she "still didn’t eat a proper meal until I was 30".
Jamil admitted that anorexia had made her "an exhausted, boring, navel-gazing obsessive person" in her teens and early 20s.
"I took any pill or drink or diet that Oprah recommended," she said.
"I did it, I took it. You know, any very low calorie supermodel diet."
Jamil began her career on the UK's Channel 4, hosting the youth-focused T4 strand from 2009 until 2012.
She said that, at the time, her "TV
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The far-reaching influence of celebrities on body image and eating disorders
In today’s continually body-conscious media, celebrities are often presented in a manner that provides narrow definitions of what beauty entails. Photos of exceptionally ‘perfect’ and impossibly attractive celebrities are all around us, from billboards to shop windows to social media such as Instagram. Why is it that the ‘latest look’ is often nowhere close to what people actually look like in the real world? Trends are always evolving but people’s desires, goals, and anxiety are everlasting.
Celebrities receive outrageous public attention and often represent the embodiment of media cultural beauty ideals (Brown & Tiggemann). Online platforms have been used by celebrities such as Demi Lovato and Kesha to disclose their eating disorders (Brown & Tiggemann, 2021). They have also been used to endorse the latest body image whims, such as the Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge and Gwyneth Paltrow’s “Elimination Diet”. The existing beauty ideal for women emphasizes thinness with the continuous exposure to celebrities with an unattainable thin ideal, leading to increased body dissatisfaction (Brown & Tiggemann, 2021).
Body dissatisfaction has several negative consequences for physical and
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We Still Absorb at Dialogue About Celebrities’ Bodies
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