- 1. “Wednesday”’s Christina Ricci Opens Up About Mental Health, Motherhood, and Being a ‘90s Icon: BUST Exclusive Interview
- (TV)
- ... has been open in multiple past interviews about battling anorexia as a teen, and though she later got healthy, she admitted in 2006 that she still wondered how her fluctuating weight had affected her career. ...
- Created on 23 February 2023
- 2. 5 Times Pretty Little Liars Was Problematic As Hell
- (TV)
- ... see her recover from it, it just appears to make her more conventionally attractive and then go away. The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, or ANAD, states on their website ...
- Created on 12 July 2022
- 3. What’s So Funny? Pop Culture Still Doesn’t Know How To Handle Bulimia
- (Entertainment)
- ... has subconsciously perpetuated the idea that it isn’t a “real” eating disorder in the same way that anorexia is. The reality is this: bulimia nervosa is a mental illness, characterized by regular episodes ...
- Created on 17 September 2020
- 4. Quarantine Holds Different Hardships For Those With Eating Disorders
- (Living)
- ... to recovery. Eating disorders are typically defined as disorders related to “unhealthy, obsessive or disordered” eating and exercise habits—the most commonly known types being anorexia and bulimia nervosa. ...
- Created on 15 June 2020
- 5. How Jameela Jamil Is Helping The Fight Against Fatphobia
- (Feminism)
- Jameela Jamil called out a promotional photo for TV show The Good Place for editing out her back fat and succeeded in getting the un-airbrushed image of her body restored. Jamil is a thin, straight-sized ...
- Created on 12 August 2019
- 6. Historically, Dieting Has Always Been The Worst
- (Living)
- ... be ‘fat.’ It’s now almost unanimously agreed on that Byron was suffering from severe anorexia, but in 1816, nobody knew that. And so, he became considered a diet icon.Those desperate to get the pale ...
- Created on 08 August 2019
- 7. What It's Really Like To Date While Managing A Chronic Illnes
- (Living)
- ... I was hoping would ask me out. But before I could answer, another text came through. “Maybe grabbing some lunch?” he asked. That’s when I freaked out. Severe anorexia had taken over my life for a long ...
- Created on 18 January 2019
- 8. "Intermittent Fasting" Diets Glamorize Disordered Eatin
- (Feminism)
- ... on pro-ana/mia websites in the early 2000s, and likely still exist as part of the underground pro-anorexia/bulimia internet culture. The intermittent fasting tips and tricks pages even come with their ...
- Created on 02 October 2018
- 9. Portia de Rossi On Eating Disorder Recovery, Coming Out, And Falling In Love: From The BUST Archives
- (Entertainment)
- ... well-written anorexia memoir. Listening to her, knowing full well that body dysmorphia is not tied to objective reality, it is still really hard not to wonder, How did this person almost kill herself out ...
- Created on 30 August 2018
- 10. Mass Shootings Are Not A Symptom Of Mental Illness
- (Feminism)
- ... allows professionals to examine overall patterns and outcomes of specific disorders. For example, common outcomes for anorexia nervosa are low blood pressure, low bone density, and kidney failure. Possible ...
- Created on 26 February 2018
- 11. Weight Watchers Is Offering Free Membership To Teens — And That’s a Problem.
- (Feminism)
- ... an anorexia diagnosis my sophomore year. I saw a therapist and a nutritionist. I gained weight, but I kept restricting and binging. I told no one. And when I got my first iPhone for my birthday my senior ...
- Created on 20 February 2018
- 12. The Cranberries Lead Singer Dolores O’Riodan's Death Leaves A Hole In The Heart Of Sad-Girl Roc
- (Entertainment)
- ... same. She was open about her mental health and her struggles with anorexia, depression and bipolar disorder. According to Grunge, she allowed her music to appear in a documentary about abortion, and she ...
- Created on 18 January 2018
- 13. The "Arm Vagina" Is Another Bullshit Body-Shaming Tren
- (Feminism)
- ... One estimate shows that approximately 10–15% of Americans suffer from some form of severe eating disorder. There is a wide range of identified eating disorders, including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating ...
- Created on 21 December 2017
- 14. What You Need To Know About Eating Disorders Before You Watch "To The Bone
- (Movies)
- ... its focus on eating disorders. The film, released on July 14, centers on 20-year-old Ellen (Lily Collins) as she battles through an almost disastrous journey with anorexia and struggles to recover from ...
- Created on 31 July 2017
- 15. This Woman Is Turning Stretch Marks And Period Stains Into Art
- (Arts)
- ... had anorexia as a teen and struggled with hatred of her stretch marks and body hair. She turned to art to express her feelings and create self love. She said: "I learned that in order to get to know, ...
- Created on 31 July 2017
- 16. 'Room' Author Emma Donoghue Is Back With A Haunting New Novel, ‘The Wonder’: BUST Intervie
- (Books)
- ... then, it’s the same with anorexia now, it’s more about control than about thinness in itself. "Fasting Girl" Sarah Jacob, via Wikimedia Commons What was it about it these cases that appealed to you? ...
- Created on 29 September 2016
- 17. 8 YA Novels Written By Women That Pass The Bechdel Test
- (Books)
- ... her death and Lia makes for a frustrating narrator as she’s delving further into her sickness. My sister, who suffered from anorexia herself in high school, explained to me that it’s frustrating to cope ...
- Created on 07 July 2016
- 18. Breaking Up With Mom: BUST True Story
- (Living)
- ... was ending. I grew up missing my mom while she was right in front of me. My illness was more visible. The signs of disturbance evolved with age: Insomnia at seven, anorexia at eleven, and bulimia at fourteen. ...
- Created on 04 May 2016
- 19. Please Don’t Call Me Pretty— I’m Just Sick and Skinny: BUST True Story
- (Feminism)
- ... that someone who fought so hard to live, still just exists in a body that she despises?” Emmets developed anorexia after her cancer treatment, using her illness as a veil under which she could obsess about ...
- Created on 25 March 2016
- 20. Orthorexia And Social Media: What You Need To Know About The 'Clean' Eating Disorder ...
- (Living)
- ... healthy food. Claudia McNeilly published an article in Broadly. on Tuesday, which caused orthorexia to go viral. Compared to clinically recognized anorexia and bulimia, orthorexia, with its almost 20 ...
- Created on 05 November 2015
