haha, I agree.

I just wish the hard questions and honest answers would have been produced. I guess Diane Sawyer (the interviewer) didn't wanna get pushy with her. Was it so hard to admit competitions have cut-throat strategy involved with weight loss and leaning out? C'mon, I was born at morning but not yesterday morning...

oh wait, full of shit? maybe once every three weeks - if that. That's a laxative queen if ever I saw one - providing she ate enough to make a complete bowel movement. If she eats 6 meals a day, 5 of them must be 5 carrot sticks two hours apart.

She's not disgusting and full of shit, her illness is.

If she does in fact have one. It's hard to be ill and often think straight. What she says and what she defends is most likely the illness speaking through her.

The only thing I'm wondering is did yall notice how she wouldn't show what a serving size of her meal looked like? She just kind of walked around it and was like yea theres some meat and some vegetables. So does that mean 1 shrimp and a carrot stick or a 3-4oz serving of chicken or some meat and like 2 cups lettuce? I think that if she really thought that what she ate was the correct amount she would have been able to say more exactly what she ate. And they didn't even ask how much does she exercise. All she said was she was "active". Hmmm it still seems fishy to me.

yes the excuses she gives sounds suspicious.
also ''I feel fine'' isn't an exact analysis. to know if her health hasn't suffered she needs to be tested, you can feel good because you have a diet coke once in a while and still be malnourished.
but I do believe she doesn't know she is not eating enough or that it could be a form of eating disorder. by trying to stay fit she is taking it a bit on the extreme side- even if she is naturally skinny which is fine- she looks too skinny.

I don't believe people were actually trying to attack her either, after all of the cases of models dying (anorexia, bulimia or not) it is just comprehensible that it alerts people to try to send the right message out there.

I agree that the girl herself shouldn't be berated for having an illness (if she does- she sure appears to.) What I'm confused and horrified by is the fact that she's obviously been told by a great many people that she's gorgeous and has a nice body. Um...no!! No matter what standard of beauty a person uses, she is TOO SKINNY. It's awful looking. Why would people validate that?

I wouldn't get too defensive.
I took Wishes comment at "her weight is disgusting" not "omg she's a horrible disgusting person", I use the term disgusting in the terms of "Wow...that's too low of a weight, it's horrible to look at and knw someone thinks they look fine like that."

Full of shit? who knows. She's probably been brainwashed all her life because of these things, depending on how early she started.

Illness = cancer, flu, etc..

Anorexia = decision; a self-perpetuating addiction.


The polar opposite (the obese class) would be to say this forum is comprised of people with extreme eating illness in varying degrees. I don't think that boat will float here.

I agree, I don't class Anorexia (or Obesity) as an illness. It is something that you do to yourself, a decision you make, and subsequently an addicition.

The same goes for alcoholism and smoking. You make the decision to light the cigarette or have the drink, and you makie the decision to stuff your face or stick your finger down your throat.

That's not an illness, it's self inflicted.

Hmmm if you ask me they're all too skinny and dont accurately represent a REAL woman. How many of us are over 5'10 and all toned and rail thin?
Hellooo where's the CURVES. and I'm not talking hey yeah fat is okay. But wheres the NATURAL woman. with some legs and ass..and for god sakes do they have to be giants haha. cmon here where's the love for little 5'4 inchers like me. haha

No, and Illness would be something you cant help. If you stop putting food into your mouth and kid yourself repeatedly enough that you believe it, then its self inflicted still. Mental health or not.

The problem with todays society is that nobody wants to take responsibility for anything.
Proof of point, see 100 years ago for any anorexia or similar. Funny how that works eh? Same goes for Obesity. You can kid yourself that you are not eating that much, and that you eat healthy, but your body is telling you the truth.

Hit the nail on the head as usual. But you have to have been there, and beaten it to understand i think. Most people here just wont "get it".
Those that fess up and stop making excuses for everything and everyone are the ones that succeed.

what the heck is this load of bullcrap about macedonian or asian bodies?

japanese girls are skinny because they DONT eat. aka look at them at highschool when they sport and study, they are a LOT bigger at a normal weight. =/
Or even look at chinese girls, they aren't skinny or anything, it's just the size zero fashion in asia that's going on...
geez...

hehe thats true, my son dated quiet a dumpy japanese girl for a while

I think the girl is being attacked because she won.

I also think we should be interviewing the contest organizers and leaders and finding out what they are doing to help her get healthy, she obviously is not.

She looks like my 11yo son (about 70ish lbs and 5'3) in a bikini and a wig.

Very sad. She, and the people running the "healthy fitness" competition are delusional.

need some meat on them bones..I may be on a diet but damn, gimme something to chew on woman

but she didn't win.

Rachael Finch was the one that won,
and she looks quite fit, great body!


the girl that they are talking about was a runner up, Stephanie Naumoska.