Eating Disorder Research

Doesn’t it feel wonderful to be off anorexia? Brittany Snow certainly shows it. She has declared to OK! Magazine that she doesn’t like to think of it as a “diet.”

“It’s kind of like eating foods that I know aren’t going to talk to me after I eat them,” the actress explains. “If I eat a piece of pizza and afterwards I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe I ate that!’ I know ahead of time and I’m not going to eat it.”

Brittany Snow, a star in Hairspray, recently made headlines when she confessed about her long struggle with eating disorders. She also talked about pilates and going to the gym. Nothing like healthy exercise to make you feel whole again!

Hopefully, she can be an inspiration to her legion of fans. An admission of suffering from a problem is never an easy thing. Most of us would like to project a healthy image. But celebrities often have it hard. They have to face the press when they make an admission. Brittany Snow showed that she had the courage to overcome her condition and to eat chocolates so long as her body craved for them, revealed during the interview.

In a statement made recently, Donatella Versace finally said that his daugther, Allegra Beck Versace, is suffering from anorexia eating disorder. 

Was such a statement really necessary? Anyone looking at the picture can tell that she is having some kind of anorexia. Her collar bones are sticking out, her face looks gaunt and her hands are like sticks.

 Allegra is the 20-year-old heiress to the fashion house. She inherited 50 percent of Versace on her eighteenth birthday from her uncle Gianni.

Gianni had famously dressed Princess Diana and made Elizabeth Hurley’s safety-pin dress, was killed in 1997.

What is good to know is that Allegra is receiving treatment and medical care.  The statement revealed that she has been responding well.

In the meantime, Versace’s public relations office said the family was launching legal action against media that quoted Donatella as saying her daughter had been admitted to hospital and that anorexia was “consuming” her.  The Versace company said that no such comments were made.

The family also pleaded to the media to respect her privacy as she recuperates this period.

Health experts in Britain say that anorexia.  It has the highest fatality rate of any psychiatric illness, with 13 to 18 percent of sufferers dying, most commonly due to heart disease or suicide. More can be done to help anorexics if early treatment is done.