Eugenia Cooney is a youtube star with one million plus subscribers. She does beauty and makeup videos, often dressing up for holidays and making several videos out of them. Eugenia is extremely skinny, with only 88 pounds to her body. She denies she has an eating disorder or other health problem along with her parents. Even after photos of her before she lost severe amounts of weight were leaked to the public she denied, still, that she had a health problem. All of this causes heads to be turned and people worried. Several other youtube stars had made videos about her trying to help her, as most of them say although some of them were being rude to her about her weight. Many of her fans got extremely upset over them saying anything about her and began to attack the people who actually tried to help her. She lost attention because of this and …show more content…
has gotten skinnier and still goes without help. Predictions say that she could die within two years if she keeps getting thinner. Another celebrity that has a eating disorder is Evanna Lynch who acted as Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter franchise. She had overcome anorexia and became public about it because she felt that she was lying to the public. She was an overachiever as a child and she also stated in an interview that the media had gotten her into the obsessive habit of counting her calories. Lynch says that the Harry Potter books were her escape from the countless number counting she thought about all the time. She adored Luna Lovegood just because the character was different for just being herself, unlike a lot of the other characters who were trying to make a statement by being different. Luna was her comfort character and she always went to the books to help her calm down. She sent a letter to J.K.
Rowling and Rowling wrote back, ending up as penpals and continue to be to this day. Lynch states that Rowling was the one who helped her through the disorder, though her director on set for Harry Potter helped her also. She eventually realized, with the help of family and friends, that she didn’t need to be extremely skinny to look wonderful and she went back to eating healthy again to this day. Yet another star who struggled with an eating disorder is Demi Lovato, who openly talks about her disorder. She had problems with her bulimia when she was young, 18 years old, and checked into the hospital in 2010. She grew up around a mother and a grandmother with bulimia and states that it didn’t make it easy for her. “Being around someone who is 80 pounds and had an active eating disorder… it’s hard to grow up like that.” Demi had said to American Way. She also went through drug and alcohol addictions along with the bulimia. She has said several times in interviews that she didn’t think that she would make it to 21 years. In January 2013 Demi had checked into a sober house and stayed there for about a
year. She had taken her last drink in January of 2012 and continues to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings to keep herself mentally healthy and able to get her feelings out about the addiction to people who knows how she feels. This is Demi’s fifth year of sobriety. She is now a body positivity activist and constantly talks about how terrible her experience was so that she can get people to realize how terrible these things are.
Annie Turnbo Malone was an entrepreneur and was also a chemist. She became a millionaire by making some hair products for some black women. She gave most of her money away to charity and to promote the African American. She was born on august 9, 1869, and was the tenth child out of eleven children that where born by Robert and Isabella turnbo. Annie’s parents died when she was young so her older sister took care of her until she was old enough to take care of herself.
The athlete I chose is Natasha Watley. She is a professional softball player and the first African-American female to play on the USA softball team in the Olympics. She’s a former collegiate 4-time First Team All-American who played for the UCLA Bruins, the USA Softball Women’s National Team, and for the USSSA Pride. She helped the Bruins will multiple championships and also holds numerous records and one of the few players to bat at least .400 with 300 hits, 200 runs, and 100 stolen bases. She’s also the career hits leader in the National Pro Fast pitch. She won the gold medal in the 2004 summer Olympics and a silver in the Beijing Olympics. She was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014.
When most people think of Texas legacies they think of Sam Houston or Davy Crockett, but they don’t usually think of people like Jane Long. Jane Long is known as ‘The Mother of Texas’. She was given that nickname because she was the first english speaking woman in Texas to give birth.
Alice Cogswell was an incredible little girl from the 1800s who helped to change the course of history for deaf people everywhere. Alice was one of the first and most prominent figures in the creation of ASL as well as an education system for American deaf people. She became this brave pioneer at only 9 years old.
An influential American printmaker and painter as she was known for impressionist style in the 1880s, which reflected her ideas of the modern women and created artwork that displayed the maternal embrace between women and children; Mary Cassatt was truly the renowned artist in the 19th century. Cassatt exhibited her work regularly in Pennsylvania where she was born and raised in 1844. However, she spent most of her life in France where she was discovered by her mentor Edgar Degas who was the very person that gave her the opportunity that soon made one of the only American female Impressionist in Paris. An exhibition of Japanese woodblock Cassatt attends in Paris inspired her as she took upon creating a piece called, “Maternal Caress” (1890-91), a print of mother captured in a tender moment where she caress her child in an experimental dry-point etching by the same artist who never bared a child her entire life. Cassatt began to specialize in the portrayal of children with mother and was considered to be one of the greatest interpreters in the late 1800s.
Betty Marion White was born on January 17, 1922 in Oak Park, Illinois. She is the only child of Horace and Tess White, an electrical engineer and a house wife. At the age of two her and her family moved to Los Angeles. Betty White graduated from Beverly Hills High School California, in 1939 at 17. Betty started modeling they same year she graduated. She first did various radio shows in the 40s. But her first TV show was on Hollywood in Television in 1949. Whites first produced television show was Life with Elizabeth. "I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood."
Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924-Present) The work of Evelyn Boyd Granville was important because she focused on the mathematics and physics of life and the earth. Discovering new ideas about the orbit and objects pertaining to the orbit. This research paper will go into depth of her life and through her accomplishments, such as learning math and physics, which most women in this time period did not have a chance to go through. Another reason why the work of Evelyn was so important because it is used in our everyday lives to create new things, discover new things, and to solve problems.
Marya Hornbacher was born on April 4th, 1974, her parents were well-known actors and directors in Walnut Creek, California. She led a chaotic childhood, consisting of a major move to Minnesota, an anxiety disorder, and most of all, perfectionism everywhere she turned, “I always felt there was an expectation that I would do one of two things: be great at something, or go crazy and become a total failure. There is no middle ground where I come from,” (Hornbacher, 281). Marya developed bulimia when she was nine years old, and when she moved away to attending boarding school at fifteen, she became anorexic. Her parents saw it as a phase and Marya did not go into treatment for another seven years, since then, she has had several relapses. Marya wrote her ...
...d the gravity of her situation. Portia De Rossi met the three criteria for an anorexia nervosa disorder binge-eating type at the age of 25. Her restrictive food intake through her diets impeded her from having a healthy body weight. As a result she was 85% less than her normal body weight. She also had an immense fear of gaining weight and recurred to purging and excessive exercise. Portia viewed herself to be “fat” even though she was already underweight due to her distorted point of view on body image and weight; all that matter to her was to be thin. Despite having symptoms that could also diagnose her with bulimia nervosa, there was still no clear proof she fulfilled all the criteria for this disorder. However, what clearly differentiated her from being diagnosed with bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa was her low weight which was below 85% of normal weight.
On the outside Demi Lovato was every young girl’s idol in the late 2000’s. Lovato had her own successful television show, Sonny With a Chance on Disney Channel and starred in the Camp Rock movie series with the Jonas Brothers. However, on the inside she was suffering from multiple mental illnesses. She has suffered from bulimia, self-harm, anorexia, and depression. In 2011, she was officially diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Since hitting rock bottom in 2010 she is slowly recovering from her mental illnesses. Bipolar disorder is described as unusual shifts in mood, activity levels, and energy (Bipolar Disorder). Specifically, Lovato suffered from bipolar depression (Be Vocal). Recently, she partnered with five mental health companies to promote
A couple of years after she got out of rehab, MTV filmed a short documentary of Lovato’s mental health issues called “Demi Lovato: Stay Strong”. Throughout the film, Lovato describes her life as a daily battle to stay healthy. Soon after rehab, she resumed her singing career and was extremely nervous about performing again. However at a meet and greet before Lovato performed, a young girl praised Lovato for her bravery and courage and said that Lovato had encouraged her to not wear her wig that night. Demi Lovato is a prime example of an encouraging role model because she has turned her life with bipolar II disorder into a positive message for her
As the "ideal" women’s body has become progressively thinner over the past decades, the eating disorder anorexia has become progressively more prevalent. Anorexia is a disease in which a person eats nothing beyond minimal amounts of food so that her body weight drops dangerously. It is no wonder with all of the cultural messages of thinness being aimed at women, that 90-95% of anorexics are female, 25.7% of all female ballet dancers are anorexic, and that the percentages are similarly high for female models and athletes (Malson, 1998). Six to eight percent of young women have been diagnosed. For some the disease takes a devastating and irreversible course; 20% of anorexic patients will die and as many as half of those will be from suicide (Sullivan, 1995). It is an extremely painful disease with many emotional hardships for all involved. Anorexia, like many psychological disorders in the DSM-IV, has medical, biological, personality, and social components and implications.
Nonetheless, the cycle started again. In 2005 she showed off her toned 160 pound body on the O magazine. In 2009, she was back to 200 pounds 2. "I 'm mad at myself. I 'm embarrassed. I can 't believe that after all these years, all the things I know how to do, I 'm still talking about my weight. I look at my thinner self and think, 'How did I let this happen again?’ 2”. The inclusion of this well-known celebrity example of trouble with
Americans live in a pressure-packed society. This pressure creates a vast away of problems. People in our society are influenced on what others are doing, how they act, and what they look like. Celebrities have a huge impact on people throughout the world, as people living in our society, we would like to act and look like the famous do. Many throughout the world focus on looking there best, and staying in shape for impression and satisfaction. In the following, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and what they are will be discussed.
The fashion, television, and film industries, and the social media ruin self-image of young women, and since the self-image is linked to body weight, they are the direct influence on eating disorders. These industries must realize what they’ve done and start offering size diversity for models and actors, and stop posting “pro-eating disorder” websites on the internet before even more young women’s lives are destroyed before they’ve practically even began.