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After watching the programme "The Truth about Beauty," in which Fearne Cotton examined the trend for super -slim women as encouraged by the beauty and fashion industries - I am so very, very thankful that I can love and accept myself and can look in a mirror and see myself as a worthy woman , just the way that I am. Bulges and all !.
I was sickened by the sights of the skeletons shown on the programme. Many of these women belong to 'pro - ana' websites, and meet each other on them to encourage anorexia as a life choice . And, they have dieted themselves to death some of them. They actually believe they are not beatiful unless they have no flesh on their bones at all really. It was a horrible , programme to watch. It turned my ample stomach. That programme brought back to me, sad memories of the young anorexic lass I once tried to help and was so sure that I would be able to. I took her into my home, a few years ago. What a heartbreaking experience that was. I failed abysmally. Shelly was never fat but she was convinced in her mind that she certainly was. If she ever did eat anything other than a lettuce leaf, she would rush off to climb One Tree Hill or some such thing to burn it off. She is still alive, that girl, but still fluctuating between 32 kg and 40 kg I have been told. She has been on the brink of death a few times and she has never been employed again since anorexia took over her life. Her years at university, and her degress, and wonderful career, all gone. Father died a heartbroken man, and the mother, has become almost a recluse since. What a waste.
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