"I felt like a liar, telling people to love themselves as they are, while I was being hateful to myself and really hurting my body." - Kesha on the eating disorder that led to a two-month stint in rehab, in an essay she wrote for Elle U.K.
Los Angeles Boys Have Eating Disorders Thanks to Channing Tatum
In most of America, eating disorders disproportionately afflict young women, rather than young men. But in Los Angeles, almost as many boys as girls are vomiting and using laxatives to lose weight. What's to blame? Uh... Channing Tatum and Twitter?
Is Amanda Bynes '25 Things You Don't Know About Me' the Weirdest Story Us Weekly Has Ever Printed?
Every issue, Us Weekly runs a feature called "25 Things You Don't Know About Me," in which a celebrity, ostensibly, writes up interesting 25 facts about themselves (and then an intern transliterates their incomprehensible hieroglyphics into human letters). Normally, these lists give readers a chance to learn 24 things…
Cat Marnell on bulimia: "Real girls know how to do it...It's part of being a woman." Amphetamine logic?
Vogue Editors Vow Not to Employ Models with Eating Disorders
The heads of Vogue's 19 international editions have come together to form a six-point pact which promises, among other things, to stop the practice of working with models younger than 16, or those who, at the editors' discretion, are determined to be suffering from an eating disorder.
Was John Lennon Bulimic?
BackStage Pass VIP, a new book by Debra Sharon Davis, "depicts the human side of celebrity music icons." Among other claims, the controversial book paints Mick Jagger as a right-wing conservative and claims that John Lennon had an eating disorder.
Spain Just Jealous of Pretty People
Spain is close to banning TV ads for "slimming products" and plastic surgery before 10 p.m.—which would make them even more restricted than alcohol ads. Even though alcohol makes you fat and surgery makes you pretty? Savages. [Ad Age]
Obama Is a Starving Starlet: From President to 'Anorexia?' Tabloid Bait in Five Easy Steps
Accused of skipping meals and wasting away, the leader of the free world protested: Am not, I have naturally fine bones, and I'm under a lot of pressure. Hey Barack, quit stealing Nicole Richie's lines.
Barry Diller: Picky Eater
When a waiter approaches Diller with a plate, he sniffs, "You're actually bringing food?"
Thin, White Line Only Thing Separating Jessica Alba From Teri Hatcher
Browsing the latest Worth 1000 Photoshop contest that challenges participants to take the fanciful leap of imagination required to render some of the world's biggest female stars as anorexics (whoever submitted the Nicole Kidman entry really should have been disqualified for lazily adding barely a brushstroke), we…
Gossip Roundup: Keira Knightley Weighs at Least Three Pounds More Than the Average Anorexic
• Despite her sharply protruding breastplate, Keira Knightley is not anorexic. She's not eating, per se, but that's a minor detail. Just because you drink water and eat iceberg lettuce until your thighs are as thin as your finger does not mean you're anorexic. Now go focus on Kate Bosworth or something. [People]
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And a Thousand Teenage Girls Go Running for the Toilet
From Fashion Week Daily's coverage of designer Bryan Bradley's Tuleh collection in Bryant Park:
Lohan Loves the 'Fanfair' Section
Yesterday Lindsay Lohan left her NYC hotel room with some "misused and misconstrued" reading material in hand.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
In a January 9 email statement, Lohan writes: "The words that I gave to the writer for Vanity Fair were misused and misconstrued, and I'm appalled with the way it was done." The magazine, however, claims everything Lohan said to reporter Evgenia Peretz is on tape. So, uh, what words would be misconstrued here? When…
