Nicole Richie Says That ED Rumors Are “Insulting and Irresponsible”
January 29, 2010 in Nicole Richie, Then and Now by Versus
Nicole Richie looks beautiful in Marie Claire UK this month – and she talks about how the eating disorder rumors affected her:
‘I think when you see me in person, you see that I’m, like, five foot one – I’m a small person.
‘The only time it bothered me was when I was in a store trying on shoes and these girls came up to me – they were probably like 13 or 14 – and their mother came over, and she said, “Are you taking care of yourself, because my girls think that you’re not.” That was upsetting.’
‘I felt it was a little unfair to say someone has an eating disorder when they don’t’ she says. ‘It’s extremely insulting and irresponsible. An eating disorder is serious and it’s a disease.’
What do you guys think about her statements?
See more pictures of Nicole in Marie Claire after the jump!
I think she did have an ED for a while there, but that mom had no right to say anything to her, and it’s not like she even said something useful.
he did ave and ED for awhile though.i still think she is too thin.i just hope her daughter doesn’t have the same body issues.
I agree with her. If someone is suffering from anorexia, they are most likely aware of it. Going up to someone and saying something like that, or commenting on how they look will only draw more attention and distress about their body. Not to mention most people that would do that think that anorexia is some kind of evil, selfish choice and wouldn’t be doing it out of concern.
By the way I usually don’t think Nicole Richie is attractive, but here she looks really good.
very well said
she looks absolutely stunning in these marie claire photos…..totally beautiful!!
As far as these pics go, she looks very pretty here. In terms of her having ED, she claimed she was always very thin, except she gained weight when she went to rehab; yet, when you look at early pics of her even as far back as her childhood pics, she was always a healthy (sometimes bordering on chubby) gal. I would have a lot more respect for these celebs if they said “yes, I had an ED, but now I am doing better” or “I am now only eating 1000 calories and working out 2 hrs a day to look like this”.
I agree,it would be better if they were completely honest or just didnt say anything about it at all.
cause when you’re that thin that she was in the bikini picture and your bones are poppin out all over, people are gonna think you’re not eating enough.
I agree! it’s equally irresponsible on her behalf to become clearly underweight while arguing that she is totally healthy. Those kinds of argument hurt young girls’ self-esteem a lot more than celebs who really do have eating disorders. There is a huge gray area between being clinically diagnosed with anorexia and having a healthy body image, and most women fall somewhere in between..
well said. cannot agree more that the lies these girls tell are far more damaging than anything else. the question is how much is she still lying to herself?
i don’t think the mother should have said anything, but the sad fact is there are a lot of mean, ignorant, and plain nutty people out there. if you deliberately put yourself in the limelight for absolutely no reason other than for attention, you kind of bring it on yourself. if she were a musician, actress etc i would have much more symnpathy, but she did reality tv. and continues to promote herself and her life as if it were a brand. she may not be as wild now as she supposedly once was, but she is still asking for attention. she needs to grow up take responsibility for her actions and accept the consequences.
I think shes ashamed of her ED for some reason.
Maybe it’s because SHE WAS a chubby girl, and is in denial about that.
It makes her more confident to think she is “naturally small”.
yea i agree. well said people
this all makes me think of victoria beckham, her claimin that she didnt get breast implants. makin young girls think that you can get that thin and your boob’s will get bigger? its absolutely insane.
ugh did VB really claim that?! LAME! the fact that she is so skinny shows them as fake even more so because they look like round balls on her chest covering a rib cage, if people have more meat on them they can ALMOST look real if done well
for those of you who don’t remember or know anything about nicole richie you might remember she was heavy into drugs and drinking. After she left rehab and got clean the first time she gains alot of weight this was around the first season of the simple life. Before that we really didn’t know to much of what she looked like so I think it is possible that she was naturally think after all she did do ballet.
I personally don’t know if she had a ed but I think if she did have one I don’t think she’d have any problem admitting shes working so hard to be a good role model these days
In photos looks good. But in that one on the beach … she is so tinn.
Even if she have an ED, I agree with Nicole saying: “it’s insulting and irresponsible” what that woman was done.
I agree. That woman had no place saying that to her. I do think she had an eating disorder though. She looks great now though. Beautiful pictures.
there is no way in the world u can tell me this girl did NOT havean ED, a couple of years ago….
Stunning!
That one picture from years ago with Lyndsay Lohan…there was definitely some kind of eating “issue” going on.
However…those pictures above, don’t even look like her. Has she had her lips done?
I love Nicole and want to believe her, but don’t. There scary skinny pictures of her are not of a person who is naturally that size, but I am glad she seems to be looking healthier in the past couple of years. I agree with what she is saying though. It is extremely hurtful to make comments about somebody having an Eating Disorder or being too thin, but it seems to be perfectly acceptable. People rarely go up to fat people and tell them to stop eating because they are over weight and it is affecting their health, but when someone is too skinny/has an ED it is suddenly okay for people to tell them that they look bad and should start eating.
exactly my thoughts!
Well, i personally think the solution should be to be able to go to overweight people and just tell them. Not embrace ignorance for the sake of politically corectness. However, rudeness is not acceptable, no matter on which side you are. No, it’s not acceptable to go to strangers, but to those close to you, we should make an effort and confrunt them. Sometimes people don’t realise what’s happening to them until it is to late to reverse it and the effects are set in.
So actually i guess i agree with you, but only to a certain extent.
you ever been fat? cause people comment on it all the time. usually not in a constructive you need to get help kind of way though, more your worthless and ugly.
try that for building your self esteem.
I understand people who are overweight also get this type of treatment, but from experience it’s different. It’s name-calling and general bullying/bitchiness, which is just as bad. But when it comes to be skinny it seems that people are suddenly willing to tell you how to live your life and that you’re not healthy and that you need to get help. That’s been my experience anyway, and each are just as bad. It seems that young women/girls are not going to be bullied for being skinny, but overweight girls will be, whereas skinny girls will be told they look ill and need to eat, whilst generally speaking I don’t think many overweight girls are told this type of this. It’s a sensitive issue to be told your weight is wrong whatever size you are though.
Often the main reason people say that a thin girl looks “ill” or “disgusting” is jealousy. Another erason is that because thin is hailed with in the fashion industry as the only beauty so people believe that a regular person can’t be offended by being called “sickly skinny” which they actually can and probably will be.
Just learn the great art of tact, people. You will benefit greatly from it.
I could not agree more- in my own experiences people i barely know will not even think twice before commenting on how terrible i look and how i must be unhealthy. It’s like they cant comprehend that its also insensitive, or how there might be another health related issue besides anorexia is going on.
Perhaps I am aware and unhappy with the way i look, and perhaps i am not able to change it. Even if i did have an eating disorder, what then would give anybody the right to openly tell me how awful i look? Why does everybody act like an eating disorder makes you some kind of selfish idiot vs a person struggling with a serious disease?
And to the people below like Hellonhighheels- why does this have to turn into a debate over whether heavy or underweight girls have it worse? Why is wrong to point out the fact that it can be hurtful both ways, and that girls who are thin may also have insecurities about their bodies?
Nobody should ask you if you’re pregnant, and no one should make comments on how i must not eat. Everyone should mind their own business.
Yes; the sole problem is that on this site it is the skinny girls that keep complaining how hard their life is and how no one gives shit to overweight people and they have to struggle so much buhuhu. Which is bs, in today’s society the thinner you are the better. Most people think that thin equals healthy not viceversa. Stop wining about it.
Uma- I’ve had it both ways and definantly thinner is harder. At ~90kg, 5’11 I was pretty much ignored. Only once in four years of high school I was bullied over weight/image.
I lost 25kg and now I have body image issues. People look at me now, and people I both know and don’t comment about how skinny I am negatively. They imply I don’t eat and even when I do – like the other day I ate a pizza for lunch, and this idiot at work just stared at me and goes ‘what DO you eat’ and when i told him how much I eat to match my exercise levels, he didn’t believe me. People think I’ve had anorexia, and anorexia is thought of as a weak disease you choose to have yourself in society, and now everybody treats me like I’m a silly little girl that can’t handle anything emotionally or physically (like strength).
Melanie, i was both 58 and currently 46 kg at 163 cm. While everything was ok at 58 since i was not even remotely fat, i get absolutely no troubles now. Only my close friends joke about me being small but that’s it. Sure, if i was a walking skeleton maybe it would be harder, but if you look healthy – hair, skin, complexion, eyes and so on – no matter how tiny you are, no one will give you shit about it. Or at least not how some people make it appear over here.
Because I was in high school as well the situation was probably different between you and me.
Eventually, in a few more months, people will accept me as healthy, although I nearly always have been through my weight loss.
Quite frankly “anonymous” I’m not quite sure how what I said is construed to be a debate over who has it worse. It’s just pretty freakin stupid to believe that only skinny/anorexic people have comments made about them. Did you actually READ my post or are you just running your mouth? Then again I suppose it does make sense if you’re anorexic/have an eating disorder (whatever the f*ck your term of the day may be) to feel that all of society is solely out to get you- anorexia is a disorder that is also very closely associated with narcissistic personally disorder.
However, for the record- if we were to have a vote on here about who gets it worse, I would actually vote for the obese people. Statistically speaking, obesity is more prevalent, impossible to camouflage, and looked at as more disgusting thanks to media standards. So more comments ARE probably made to those that are obese.
but thats life. there will allways be people who feel the need to force their opinion on people. i have had people telling me to get different haircuts. friends who get lectures cause they smoke. i hate getting my picture taken and if i try and hide, people have actually had strangers interrupt and tell the person taking the photo!
i personally think people should mind their own business as i have said before. we live in a free society and yes sometimes we eat too much or drink too much or exercise too much, but its our business. sadly they don’t and i do think that if you use your life, looks etc to get famous as Nicole richie has and want people to take an interest you can’t get overly upset if they do. the woman was not being abusive, just curious. that isn’t offensive, or insulting, not under th
not under these circumatances, was how that was meant to read!! computer is playing up.
i guess what i am trying to say is that certain celebrities invite it more than others. kelly clarkson, or kate bosworth say, i would totally sympathise with.
but equally i would say models and especially reality tv stars whould expect this kind of thing. abuse cannopt be tolerated, but curiosity, opinion is natural and you may not like it but you have invited it.
i don’t believe her when she says she doesn’t have an ED. she looks to be doing better now, she looks much healthier, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have a disorder. having struggled w/ an ED myself, i doubt i’d talk about it publicly ever. maybe she really is better now and wants to leave it in the past, who knows. either way, it’s her business and she doesn’t have to talk about it if she doesn’t want to!
denial is not the same as not wanting talk about it. besides why is she famous except for her personal life?
Not to be rude but why does she always use the excuse of I’m 5’1 when she talks about back then her looking so thin. Eating Disorders sees no race, height, body frame etc. Nevertheless I don’t really know what to believe when reflecting on her body back then. She was with Rachel Zoe who is notorious for telling her clients to slim down and supposedly sells meth which besides being the obvious is known for slimming down people as opposed to other drugs which give you munchies etc. However I understand her point of view just because someone is very thin doesn’t automatically give you right to say someone has a eating disorder or confront them about it that’s incredibly rude! What if the thin person went to someone overweight or pudgy and asked them are you having weight problems that’s kind of FOUL!
Wow, she has really matured since her days on The Simple Life.
However, I agree with her. It’s utterly stupid that people try and diagnose strangers based on the one or two facts they found about Anorexia from reading a Wikipedia article. It’s completely asinine on multiple levels.
That woman who asked her that seems like a bit of an idiot herself. Hypothetically, even if Nicole had an eating disorder, it’s not as if it’s something she would be able to just quit and recover from because some foolish parent thinks it’s harming her children. I want to reach through the screen and slap whatever person told Nicole that.
Well said on Nicole’s part.
Nicole look stunning in these photos, this is by far the best shoot I have ever seen her in. She looks really gorgeous with brown hair, wow. I completely agree with her statement too.
Nicole richie is so beautiful! Her figure is so great.
For those of you that are making the argument that “Well, we should just go up to fat people and say something, blah blah” Do you think people DONT? Please, walking through Target I watch obese people getting stared at and given the disgusted looks. Do you think they don’t notice? Do you think they don’t hear the rude comments people make, or don’t receive diet advice? Please. For f*cks sake, people are crazy and say stupid things to everyone. Personally, I’ve never had a weight problem, but I’ve dealt with stupid comments regarding my tattoos and now both of my pregnancies. Stop acting like you’re some put upon minority. If you’re going to do something that deviates from our public’s perception of “the norm” expect stupid comments and deal with it.
wow, im really glad you said that! it really is about deviating from the norm, and not about skinniness or fatness. I have a couple of obese friends and I see the kinds of looks they get when we go to the grocery together or when we order at a restaurant. We have worked really hard to eradicate prejudice based on skin color and gender in this country, but people still think it’s alright to discriminate based on weight…it really is sad!
Um, that’s because you can control your weight but not your skin color and race. Saying that there is absolutely no correlation between excessive weight and laziness is a lie. Yes, there are some people with thyroid problems or whatever, but can we just agree that that is the minority?
actually, thyroid problems are not related to major weight gain..I have an underactive thyroid and I am only 5 pounds heavier than I used to be which is still within the healthy BMI. I still don’t think that the fact that we can control our weight should give people reason to discriminate! The truth is that there are skinny people out there who eat unhealthy and don’t exercise, and fat people with similar diets…so why should we judge the overweight person more harshly?
And anyway, by your logic, gender and ethnic discrimination never should have happened and yet history and current events show us that they are still pervasive.
Oh, sorry, I’m actually pretty ignorant about thyroid problems, but I feel like I’ve heard that as both an excuse of very low weights and very high weights.
Obesity CAN be caused by a mental disorder or by other medical problems as well. Yeah, many times it does happen to be a case of gluttony combined with lack of physical movement, but not every time. You cannot make that generalization. I also have a huge problem with “fat” always going hand in hand with “lazy” or “slovenly.” One does not necessarily equal the other, just as thin does not necessarily equal active, productive or clean. We are not in ancient Greece, we cannot necessarily judge a man’s virtue based on physical condition. It was a crock of shit then and is now.
so if you are loving and kind, give to charity work hard,good to perents, etc etc etc, your still worth less because you don’t go jogging and like a cream cake?
fat is not a sin!!! listen to yourself. if someone is sick it is up to friends and family to show them there is help available and they are there to support them, but if they chose to maintain a low weight or a high one, its their choice. its the wonderful thing about living in a free country and no onelses business!
that said, you think you are so interesting you want people to tune in and listen to you wittering on about nothing, buy a magazine cause your on the cover, ( i am referring to nicole richie here!) i think you should expect to get a little feedback. i write a book i expect it to be critiqued!
Well yea, it’s your choice as to how much you want to eat and exercise. But expect to be judged by men, women, and maybe employers. Though hopefully not that last one, because I agree that judging based on appearances over skill and intelligence isn’t right.
whatever, i’m not saying it’s kind to go up to people, point and stare etc. bc that would be just as bad as laughing at someone with a disease, or someone who is of a different race from you. however, being severely obese usually (not always) has to do with an internal problem and a struggle. you don’t just become fat overnight. just like you don’t lose a substantial amount of weight in two weeks. it’s ultimately up to the family and friends of these people on both ends of the spectrum on the weight scale to make sure that they receive the proper care they need.
So because fat people don’t have to be fat you have the right to be rude to them?
Wow, such wisdom. How about people just get the (&%$ over themselves and let others live life the way they choose. If you don’t like blubber, don’t look at it.
Speaking of pregnancies. I had a woman come up to me and chew me out for drinking a cup of coffee! I was in the hospital, had just gotten done with an appointment, and I craved a mocha raspberry coffee, and I figured since I don’t normally drink coffee, one would be fine. Man, I couldn’t believe she did that.
Same thing happened to me during one of my finals. I was EXHAUSTED (the hormonal, pregnancy induced exhaustion that feels like you took sleeping pills, etc) and decided to grab a cup of coffee so that I wouldn’t fall face down into the cadaver I had to perform my practical on. Sure enough, I got shit about it. I almost punched the chick in the face. First of all, I rarely drink coffee, pregnant or not, but regardless, a small amount of coffee on a daily basis is harmless during pregnancy- yet she treated me as if I was shooting up. I still get mad thinking about it! lol
Wow, you’re pregnant and in med school? You sound like a really cool woman…
thank you gen
Wow, did people really say that?
I completely agree with you, There is no short supply of idiots in the world, I swear. Why would someone want to go up to any person – regardless of weight/color/gender/sexual orientation – and make that person feel bad?
I don’t get what they’re gaining out of doing this.
And I second the stupid comments about tattoos. People are always giving me looks about my tattoos; I only have two and they’re maybe only an 1″ to 1 1/2″ inches. I can only imagine what people with sleeves go through. I fail to see how it’s their business anyway.
Mizzy and hellonhighheels- both very well said! i hav a male friend…i will give you his stats because i am sure hbis stupid comments come from his insecurities. he is 5’4 and 130lbs and tiny. anyway, he says ‘i hate chubby people, it shows they dont look after themselves, wheras skinny people do.’ uhhh…no…that is not necessarily the case! it annoys the hell out of me! i have a few skinny friends who would eat less than 1000cals a day and exercise 2-3 hours and day and drink like fish and they look healthy because society has primed us to think that ‘helathy’ is pretty much as skinny as possible (VS models) yet those girls are far less healthy than me and some of my other friends…yet I get crap for being bigger than i was in my skinniest days (unhealthy, no eating, ED)! wtf?! i am HEALTHIER than i was then and by NO means even big (size 2-4)
good points! that friend of yours deserves having his tiny ass kicked.
Juliette- i have the same issue with my tatt on my wrist! also a small one…people go ‘o when did you get that done?’
me: ‘about 4 years ago’
them: ‘oh ha ha so you were young, i bet you regret it now! its in such an obvious place! imagine how it will be when your old and wrinkly!’
i just think ‘get fcked! at least i have manners!’ honestly…the reason i think they say it is out of insecurity. they are not happy with themselves and perhaps intimidated. so pulling others down makes them feel better
if i were you – i have piercings, including a tongue one which i’ve had for 5 years now and planning a tattoo – i would actually say that out loud. people sometimes do not realise the rudeness of their actions because they assume that – as others have said – you are contrary to the norm you will accept anything. but no, no one has to accept shit from whoever so next time, just say the manners card out loud. you do not have to be careful and sensible if they are not.
very true Uma! you make a very good point! I used to have a few piercings too but took them all out over time…i miss my tongue piercing! =o(
hellonhighheels
“Then again I suppose it does make sense if you’re anorexic/have an eating disorder (whatever the f*ck your term of the day may be) to feel that all of society is solely out to get you- anorexia is a disorder that is also very closely associated with narcissistic personally disorder.
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Hoping you were joking with that one. You seem to be quite smart and even when I don’t agree 100% with your points, from what I’ve read of your comments, you at are sound in your reasoning, never (this) rude, and bring the social context into the argument when so many people are pooh-poohing over whether a 22 or 24 waist is better.
That being said, if you’re serious about saying that to someone you really feel may be anorexic, you are a genuinely horrific person. Perhaps you haven’t had the joy of hating yourself more every day you wake up than you ever felt possible while still trying to be “okay”, trying to hide everything and act normal, feeling physically like shit, not knowing why three slices of pineapple per day were deadly but one was okay…the point is it is in NO WAY a narcissistic disease. At all. It begins in vanity in some, surely, but when it’s true roots really dig hold, there’s no vanity left to be had. You disgust yourself by weighing “too much”, you disgust those that care about you by being so frighteningly skinny, the pressure tears apart relationships….
Main point being, don’t be so quick to judge for the sake of being hilaaaarious (in your own mind) about such things. People are people and everyone can be hurt just the same. In your comments and judgements you don’t have to add to the difficulty for someone already dealing with a very difficult disease by just being an outright bitch.
(I apologize for the “bitch”, but no other term seemed quite right for how snarky your comments were and how offended I felt by your lack of judgement)
I don’t know, she might have been obsessed about her weight for sometime, but I really think drugs had a huge part on how she looked. She even confessed it during an interview, maybe to B. Walters . What surprises me is how she bounced back to her skinny self after the first child without the drugs. She looks heavier and normal know,thinking about it probably we are around the same weight now.
I thinks it’s pretty damn obvious that she had problems in the past (drugs or ED related). Now that she’s healthy and a Mom (I’m guessing she’s healthy) she doesn’t want to hear the comments cause she can’t relate. And who gives that complete stranger the right to say something like that? It’s like going up to Oprah and telling her you’re concerned because of her weight gain.
Also- the makeup job in these photos is awesome. Amazing what lighting, the right photographer and the perfect makeup artist can do. I bet she looks nothing like this when she wakes up in the morning.
I agree with you. Also about the makeup/lighting/photog… She is definitely wearing a TONNNN of makeup in these photos. But they did it in such an excellent way that it appears that she is only wearing a normal amount of makeup. I used to model and wow they would cake my face with so much makeup, but the photos would turn out excellent – and I wouldn’t look like I was wearing too much at all! I love looking at magazines & the photo-shoots because they make all the people look pretty and even though it’s not reality, that’s the idea – to allow the readers to go into a fantasy world and escape from reality a bit. I enjoy it very much!
gorgeous! she is perfection here….thank god she stopped starving herself to to look like rachel zoe. i think she is beautiful and I love her style…
She is absolutely right. There is nothing more devastating to anyone to be working hard on your body, sticking to a diet, working out, and then being told by everyone that you are sick. Or by magazines, forums, or anything else which is nothing more than speculation.
She looks really great.. She is a very nice weight for her size.
Wow – she looks amazing here, definitely love the brown hair!
Just because she’s 5’1″ doesn’t mean she’s going to be scary skinny. Nicole, come up with a better excuse! If you have an ED, own up to it, if you don’t, don’t say it’s your height. My sister in law is 5’1″ and probably around 160 lbs. They’re completely unrelated.
I think a distinction should be made between extreme dieting and anorexia.
A lot of people in Hollywood are extreme dieters and have been too thin at one point or another. It’s easy to go too far, especially if you start out chunky (as she did) and if you worship at the altar of thinness (as most women do these days).
I think that, to some extent, the difference between an extreme dieting and an ED is a question of degree. And of mentality. One of the distinguishing features of anorexia is that it’s almost impossible to stop — the need to lose weight and to restrict takes on a life of its own and consumes the person and takes away their ability for rational thought. Most anorexics exhibit delusional thinking and it’s this mental component which proves so difficult to treat. For example, anorexics refuse to believe that if they continue their restriction, they will die. They refuse to believe or care that they are consuming their own organs for fuel.
I don’t know Nicole Richie, obviously, but judging from the ease with which she seems to have settled into a low but healthy weight, and from the circumstances surrounding her weight loss (i.e., she lives in Hollywood, where thin is the most prestigious cachet you can have), I would speculate that she probably did not have anorexia. Probably, she just went on a diet and/or drugs/excessive excerise, and lost more weight than many people would judge attractive.
In the picture above of her running, she doesn’t look emaciated to me. I think that at the time when this photo first ran in all the tabloids, they photoshopped it to make her chest bones more visible. But looking at what seems to be the real photo above — she looks fine. Very thin, yes, but not excessively thin.
I completely agree with you, great comment!
Very well put. Anorexia is very different than wanting to look thin and / or maintaining a healthy figure. There are many anorexics that just hate life in general, some wanting to die. But generally becoming anorexic is very different than just wanting to be thin.
1) What does hating life in general have to do with being anorexic?
2) As well as wanting to die?
3) You are right finally, yes, anorexia is different from wanting to be thing. It may begin as that desire, but generally there is another underlying problem which combines or takes over such initial “I want to lose weight!” desire so fast that weight is no longer the issue. Control, fear, and obsession all completely overtake the “weight” issue that everyone observes. An anorexic cares about his/her weight, is scared to death of gaining a pound, but not due to vanity. Often due to the ritual he/she has had for so long of weighing oneself on a daily basis in which the weight was constantly getting lower. After losing a significant amount of weight, you really can’t function beyond very basic daily activities. Work/school/etc….everything drags. Your body hurts. Your bones hurt. It is not how thin you look that’s on your mind. Bones, perhaps, as they’re markers of progress, but not general “attractiveness”. At that point it’s an obsession. One you win or lose every morning with the scale. Not because of vanity, but because of exhaustion to repair yourself in any other way.
I also agree with your comment Jane, everything you said was true. Anorexia is a mental disease. Restrictive dieting is a lifestyle choice. They are light years apart.
yep i agree with this Jane, but on the other hand just because someone isnt emaciated doesnt mean they are not anorexic. Thats what i think a loop hole is in the mental health field. they expect people to be shockingly thin, yet that person is not (maybe they binge and regurg or they starve for a week then binge out of lack of ‘will power’) etc. So that person may be a normal low/ normal weight and still be thinking of food constantly, hating their body constantly, having very bad eating habits, pulling themselves apart physically, downing laxatives, over exercising, going crazy over food, pulling away socially etc etc. but no one even realises how serious their mental state is because they look ‘healthy’ or even could ‘stand to lose a few’
Good point. There are women who are denied insurance coverage for in patient treatment because they simply aren’t “thin enough” to be classified as a life-threatening ED. Still, these women may be suicidal and going back and forth between binging/restricting and purging. Eating disorders are very complex. Even though there are medical definitions, not all people will fit into those which doesn’t mean they don’t need or deserve help.
Nicole makes an absolutely stunning brunette! But I will never understand why she continues to insist that she didn’t have an eating disorder. You cannot look like that and consume food–not possible regardless how small your frame is. Not eating is a disordered eating pattern = eating disorder. She minces words and maybe Nicole never considered herself anorexic. But there was obviously something going on there. I’m glad she is happy and healthy now but couldn’t she do some good if she spoke openly about what was going on with her then?
She looks great now
she looks cute now, i think she did have an ED before but that mum had no right to say anything to her! that was rude! i cant say for sure if she has an ED now…just because she is a ‘healthy’ weight also does not mean she is better or more healthy than she was when she was super skinny. I think thats a big mistake that people make when assessing if someone has an ED. you dont need to be underweight or emaciated to have one!
btw im not saying she definately does have one! and im not saying it’s anyone elses business…but just saying because she LOOKs healthier now does not mean she has recovered (thats assuming she did have one in the past)
in the second pic she looked scary
but now I like how she looks
She looks great now, and definitely has something of the Cruz sisters ^^
I think if she’s denying having or having had an eating disorder, she should explain why she suddenly lost all that weight. People are going to be guessing and wondering until she has a good explanation.
Uh-huh
Yeah That’s probably all that needs to be said about that topic … Ridicolous.
She looks great in the pics but I would have to see her in real life…I do believe she had an ed in the past and maybe she is doing better now….anyone can be teased for any number of reasons…in American society thin is better as long as you remain at the lower end of your weight range with the except of models were thin always worked. As a 5’1 person who was overweight I was teased and looked upon and then in high school I just stopped eating and lost weight to the point were even thin girls were telling me I was too little…now I believe in balance …I think it is unacceptable to tease anyone for being too little or overweight…those people are human beings and they have family or friends who can tell them if they should lose weight or gain…it is not unacceptable to approach someone in a store…..
i don’t think she had an ED. there are so many reasons why someone can lose weight like that. it is definitely irresponsible to always jump to that conclusion whenever someone loses weight.
she was obviously sick
She’s not too skinny now. She’s 100% healthy looking to me! But yes, before she was grossly skinny at one point.
I think she had to have had an Eating Disorder when the bikini picture was taken… that’s not natural, and you don’t look like that from exercise – she’s lacking muscle tone there. However- I think she looks fantastic now!
She looks great with her dark hair, very grown up! And I’m glad she’s over the super skinny phase, she looks healthy now.
Shes looks nice and pretty! I am 5’6 and i weigh 68 kiloss….i need to lose 10-12 kilos to be a healthy good weight.
Lip injections anyone?
She looks stunning as always. I love Nicole but it still disturbs me that she never owned up to her body issues.
I used to think she had an eating disorder back then too because I mean, come on! Look at her! But then it sort of proved me wrong when my stepmother wanted to lose weight. She starting dieting and exercising and lost it very fast (too fast) which resulted with her looking just like Nicole. People at her church thought there was something wrong and someone even asked her if she was on coke! It was ridiculous. So my step mom stopped focusing on losing weight, started back eating healthy but normal foods (instead of diet foods), and focused more on toning up. Now she looks like and average skinny person. So because of that, I try not to think so narrow minded when a formally “big” person loses weight rapidly. I’m not saying Nicole didn’t have an ED but I also try think of other possibilities that caused her to look the way she did.
Just because shes skinny doesn’t mean she has an eating disorder.