Why Do Anorexic Models Cause Eating Disorders?

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Fashion Industries all over the world are the cause of so many deaths and eating disorders of models with their force of having to be skinny. Many anorexic models are often found on the catwalks are pressurized to be below average size and weight with around 40% of models are found with some type of eating disorder. Many even have been told by their managers that they are too ‘fat’ and need to lose weight if they are to keep their jobs. The models customarily start vigorously dieting, intensive exercise or sometimes involving the use of laxatives, which gradually evolves into victualing disorders like anorexia, bulimia and binge victualing which can eventually lead to death. Models with untreated anorexia nervosa can suffer major health issues as well, such as heart failure, liver disease, calcium deficiency and kidney stones.
Teenagers and children as adolescent as six years old are affected by this trend commenced by fashion industries, destroying their self-esteem and warping their view of authenticity and over 90 percent of anorexics in France are teenagers. The …show more content…

Their disorders began through harsh comments and teasing, eventually causing them to fall into the grasps of eating disorders. Kate Dillon said she equated thinness with happiness and with having friends, but that was not the case. Kate Dillon ended up becoming depressed and having to deal with severe anxiety attacks. While Georgina Wilkin was constantly told that she needs to lose weight even though at the start of her career she only 177cms, weighing 53.52 kilos, and with a BMI of 16, even then she was underweight. Crystal Renn and Kate Dillon eventually sought out help to overcome their mental illness and are now working as a plus sized models, at size 14, which is the average size in the U.S for

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