he scientific name for anorexia is Anorexia Nervosa. People with anorexia become completely obsessed with weight and dieting. They develop a fear of becoming fat and have a distorted mental image of their body, always seeing themselves as fat, even when they are extremely thin. Common attributes of anorexic sufferers are under-eating, vigorous exercise, ritualistic food habits and abuse of laxatives cause excessive loss of weight. Most anorexic people have no history of being overweight.












This is disgusting! Real women are not thin, unless there is a problem. With the obvious exception of genes, disease or some other issue, women tend to be more “meaty”. Naturally they have curves and it is the roundness of them that most men are wired to be attr*cted to. The women here speak volumes about how scr*w*d up that industry is and how they need to get men there telling the world what they like
This is what gets me…I spent most of my life skinny (not like this, but very thin) due to Crohn’s Disease, and the comments people make about people they *think* are anorexic are very hurtful and not helpful at all to someone who may or not be suffering from anorexia. People are very concerned about other’s people weight when they should only be concerned with their own. Period.
Oh by the way again, pretty disgusting to photoshop some beautiful girls into skeletons, is that how you make yourself feel good?
show us a picture of yourself if you have the courage…
the picture of the girl with the flower in her hair was obvoisly photoshopped.
this is so n**ty i wld never be this and of mi kids will be like it i will give them alway but this is a good wedsit tew look on of u wont to help someone get better
I can’t lie…anorexic women seriously disgust me. How much weaker of mind and character can they get? I mean, truly, they see absolutely no value in the amazing, complex system that is their bodies, and the food that is needed to sustain it. They let the world tell them who they should be, and are incapable of grasping how worthy they are of feeling happy, healthy, and ALIVE. You reap what you sow, and when your body shuts down because of the damage you’ve afflicted on it, perhaps then you’ll see the error of your ways, and hopefully you’ll get a second chance.
Thank goodness they barely hire stuff like that these days! They got hit so much for this that now, there’s no chance at all we see this in the modeling world EVER! Or at least, I hope so..
Happy Halloween!
This is a bunch of s*** skeleton costumes right??
Anorexicia…. A sickness of weak minds. Obese or starved both are existing cause people don’t give a sh** about themselves. Wake the f*ck up people would k*ll to have food to eat, to SURVIVE, and these sticks refuse it why? Cause they are afraid to gain weight? I’m not saying there isn’t reasons why they might have low self esteem but it wouldn’t be so low if they stopped caring what people think about them and started really caring about themselves and their well being. What a self absorbed ignorant sickness. It makes me disgusted to hear that young girls want to be like this. Damn if your overweight loose it healthy don’t go over board. To care SO much about looks to the point you’d harm yourself to possible de*th? How shallow…
Obviously some of those pictures are photoshoped,some are paintings and some are real… The first model di*d a short time after this picture was taken and her sister also di*d 2 week later after a catwalk in Brazil… the designer or photographs or agent using them should be prosecuted… BUT… not all skinny girls are anorexic… I hear all the time from chubby or average girl … look she’s anorexic… some people are just naturally very petite like some others are just a little curvier… both are beautiful… an recent example is Kelly Osborne… she looked perfect a few months ago but is now too skinny… her head is way too big for her new body… she also was way to fat years ago… she need to find her ideal weight for herself… not the ideal weight pesonnal trainers are saying she should be…
these pictures are proably photoshoped i have seen some of them before without the girls being so boney, the ones with the fashion runway modles are really bad but i doubt that they would have girls that skinny on the run way for fear of being persicuted even more for appearing to advertise anorexia nervosa, also they have been photoshoped for girls to use as thinspiration to become skinnyer
Girl in white – gold bikini definitely isn’t anorexic, just slim and lovely.
This looks like the sort of collection middle-aged women send each other in email to cause unnecessary panics (like the bottle kittens. Remember that?). Yes–the shape of a skeleton isn’t s*xy and anorexia is tragic. But I tire of all the hating on thin runway models because of how skinny they are. Did you realize some people are born in a way that takes effort for them to put meat on their bones? I suspect the obese west loves to put down people they are jealous of. If runway models really looked like concentration camp victims, they wouldn’t have careers for long. It isn’t a popular look and well, you d*e if you keep that up.
I’d hit it!
i’m in recovery from anorexia. hospitalized for 8 weeks due to my health & i still see imperfections in myself. looking at these pictures, while i know that i shouldn’t have, is an addiction for me; just as restriction is for myself and so many girls and boys out there.
i want people to be aware of the fact that these pictures are unhealthy and this disease is miserable.
don’t accuse tara reid of anything & take this seriously. no jokes necessary.
Wow, I wish I was that thin…god I am fat..
It’s interesting the anger displayed by many of you regarding these photographs.
I can understand being miffed if the pictures are shopped, that someone tried to trick you, but those who display such anger at the thought of people with an eating disorder even existing and sharing your air, is what I wonder about.
I suspect you get all riled up at the extremely obese too.
Why?
the pictures of the women in white are from a book from some artist…obviously shopped.
I recognized some works of a very fine artist named Andrzej Dragan. It’s the second woman which also appears in the last position. His works shows a distorted vision about reality, but this is his trademark. Having said this, the person who posted them was clearly not aware about the fact that they are fictional, and this reason alone is enough to render the title of the article useless and wrong
Fist one is definitely photoshopped as I know the person who did the work – he is very talented at his art. The ones of the girl bound in white are part of an art project but I forget who by.
Some of them look fine. Some are definately shopped.
Holy cow, which one is Tara Reid…?!?! I can’t even tell.
I seriously think that those pics are discusting! Even if they are photoshopped its still sick! I don’t believe that the very first pic. is shopped because look at the way her ribs stick out, not as far as the photoshop crap. Still if people that are really anorexic think they are fat, there is something wrong with them!
they look basically de*d lol. very sickening, that someone would willingly make themselves look like a starving somalian, while people actually dying from starvation. on other hand they prob would not get the job if they didnt look that sickeningly shockingly thin.
Photoshopped – both by ProAna supporters and those who oppose the movement.
Oh god I just threw up in my mouth.
I would love to be that skinny, photoshopped or not, they are beautiful.
As for the image of the girl in the blue top on the runway, I’ve also seen the unshopped runway photo. The top image is obviously not anything any client would ever use so that is a shopped piece as well…..The images of the blonde girl have telltale shop textures all over it.
The images are shopped. In fact the ones with the girls in white are from an artist who clearly states they are shopped. I don’t remember her name but her site showed the unshopped photos and the models were normal sized.
Now that’s what a woman is supposed to look like. Those chicks are h*t.
i’m not one of the people who says : everything is shopped.
but this is. i mean seriously people – you can’t be so stupid to think they’re real.
compare them to the actual photos and you’ll see.
GODDAMMIT I CANT BELIEVE HOW SOMEONE CAN THINK THESE ARE REAL !!
Except for Tara Reid, every single Photo is shopped, some of them for an Anti-Anorexia Campaign.
Some of these look like Anime girls. How funny.
Um..I knew these pictures and some of them ( girl with wrapped head) have been used for the No anorexia campaign of Oliviero toscani, a photograph artist working for Benetton.
So those are probably real.
But for the girl in the tutu: I suppose the face kind of sinks in when loosing weight, so it is just head-swapping and not a real anorexic person.
Or do those people have silicon implants under their cheeks?!
DIIISGUSSTING!! I’m only 15, I’m 5’9.5, and 160 lbs. I was unhappy with my weight, until i read this. NOW IM SOOOO OVER IT!!!! until I get back to school on Monday……:(
A good deal of these pictures are artworks that exaggerate thinness as a commentary on anorexia (the girls in white, notice he never shows their faces, because they aren’t real humans). However, the pictures, especially the one of the blonde crouching, have been accepted by the pro-ana community as thinspo. It’s actually kind of annoying to see them as people’s avatars or thinspo cause there are plenty of real thin women to look up to. The rest are poorly photoshopped fakes, which you can view alongside their real pictures a bunch of places online if you search for it. They only one I believe is real is the last one, although I don’t know for certain about the girl in white who is looking at the camera.
Except for the girl in the tutu and the one in the polka dot bikini these are all shopped. How I know? Because joints are made of bone and they don’t shrink when you lose weight.
WOW, I think those girls are so pretty. If they choose to be skinny at thier own detriment, than so be it. If photographers choose to photograph skinny girls, then so be it, too. I’m guessing those who oppose these photos do so on the grounds that looking like this is not healthy, and also is not a good role model for our children. Well what about chubby folk? Would these people also oppose fat people being seen in the media?? Being overweight is also unhealthy, and does not set a good example for our children….. So I gather these people would prefer PERFECT PEOPLE only be portrayed in the media/advertising industry. Budding models take heed….. body mass index reccomendations MUST BE ADHERED if you are to be seen by others, wouldnt want to offend thine eyes…
The majority of these pictures are quite well-known as badly photoshopped fakes. What sucks is comparing them to the original pictures – the women are already beautiful and plenty thin enough.
these all look shopped. what a waste of time
So gross.
The photographers and producers allowing these girls onto their sets are disgusting. Way to support and promote their health problems.
These might be photoshopped but there are people like that. And models are too skinny.
So yeah most of these images have been proven to be photoshopped. Tara is the only real one and she doesn’t look anorexic she just looks twacked out.
these are clearly photo-shopped. gisele bundchen doesn’t look like that. you people need to seriously open your eyes.
Yuckkkkk!!!! How can they really even put these girls on the runway? I know models have to be stick thin, but this is going too far! Anorexia is a series disease of the mind (on par with the delusions suffered by schizophrenics)…why don’t they have something on the market – besides for years of expensive therapy – that can help people like this?
It’s anorexia nervosa…not nervous. As a recovering anorexic, I know all too well…
very disturbing pictures i almost puked looking at these animals …
It´s photoshopped
Photoshopped my as*, this is real life and that´s it!
The whole damn world is photoshopped, yes? Stupid..
Most of those have previously been shown as photo-shopped…the only one I’d call legit is the car wreck Tara.