Hila Elmalich Before and After

Israeli model Ilanit Elmalich, who once worked for the Israeli branch of the Elite modeling agency, died Nov. 14 of complications from anorexia on her 34th birthday.
Quoted from inmyheartblog

When Israeli fashion model Hila Elmalich died last week after years of fighting anorexia, she weighed less than 60 pounds. Her death sent a shockwave through Israel’s fashion world. Elmaleh, who had been in and out of hospitals for several years, collapsed at home and died Wednesday of heart failure. The Israeli fashion photographer and modeling agent Adi Barkan was her friend. He spent hours at her bedside over the years. “I don’t know how to feel, I don’t know what to say,” he told ABC News.
Quoted from ABC News

This isn’t the first death caused by Anorexia Nervosa…

Luisel Ramos and Ana Carolina Reston

Pro Anorexia

On August 2, 2006, at 9:15 p.m., Luisel Ramos died of heart failure caused by anorexia nervosa while participating in a fashion show during Fashion Week in Montevideo, Uruguay. Ramos had felt ill after walking the runway and subsequently fainted on her way back to the dressing room. She died at the age of 22. Ramos’ father told police that she had gone “several days” without eating. She was reported to have adopted a diet of lettuce leaves and Diet Coke for the three months before her death. At the time of her death she had a body mass index (BMI) of about 14.5 due to having weighed little more than 7 stone (98 lb, 44 kg) despite being 5 ft 9 in tall (1.75 m). The World Health Organization considers a BMI of around 16 to be starvation.
Quoted from Wikipedia

Ana Carolina Reston Macan was a Brazilian fashion model of part Lebanese heritage. […] In January 2004 Reston made her first overseas trip to Guangzhou, a Chinese city close to Hong Kong. While attending a casting call there, she was reportedly informed that she was ‘too fat’, a criticism, it has been said, that led to her decline into anorexia nervosa.

At the time of her death Reston weighed only 40 kilograms (88 lbs.), measured 172 cm (5 feet 8 inches), and had been hospitalized since October 25 for kidney malfunction due to anorexia and bulimia nervosa, which included a diet consisting only of apples and tomatoes. She had a body mass index (BMI) of about 13.4, below the index value of 16 which the World Health Organization considers to be starvation. Her condition became more serious and deteriorated into generalized infection that led to her death at the age of 21.
Quoted from Wikipedia

What is Anorexia Nervosa?

Anorexia is an eating disorder where people starve themselves. Anorexia usually begins in young people around the onset of puberty. Individuals suffering from anorexia have extreme weight loss. Weight loss is usually 15% below the person’s normal body weight. People suffering from anorexia are very skinny but are convinced that they are overweight. Weight loss is obtained by many ways. Some of the common techniques used are excessive exercise, intake of laxatives and not eating.
Source: Mama’s Health

What is Bulimia?

Bulimia is an eating disorder. Someone with bulimia might binge on food and then vomit (also called purge) in a cycle of binging and purging. Binge eating refers to quickly eating large amounts of food over short periods of time. Purging involves forced vomiting, laxative use, excessive exercise, or fasting in an attempt to lose weight that might be gained from eating food or binging.
Source: Emedicine Health

Anorexia Pictures

Bulimia Pictures

• Anorexia pictures contest - Freaking News (A little bit disturbing)
  Digitally created (fake) images of celebrities and politicians suffering from anorexia, or people in the old paintings, being slim, skinny and anorexic.
• Shocking anorexia nervosa pictures - Your Pharmacia
  Pictures of anorexia bulimia nervosa, Celebrities with Eating Disorders. Anorexia photos, anorexia people pictures.
• Anorexia Nervosa: Judy’s Story Photo Album - Angel Fire
  “You will find links to pictures that comprise a condensed photo album of my life story. I thought it would be nice to create a photo album that would correlate with the story in my book, ‘The Long Road Back: A Survivor’s Guide to Anorexia.’” Judy Tam Sargent
• Anorexia Pictures - Tania Cheung
  About one in every one hundred women binges and purges to lose weight.
• Anorexic models die on the catwalk - Pravda
  Eliana Ramos, 18, collapsed six months after her sister Luisel had a heart attack during a fashion show and triggered an international debate over the use of size zero models on the catwalks.

Eating Disorder Videos

• Anorexia -YouTube
  Impressive anorexia commercial.
• Anorexia images and stats - YouTube (This video may not be suitable for minors.)
  Slideshow. “A lot of the pictures have been photoshopped in fashion media, but the point in this video is to explain how distorted the images are that we see in the media — we look at them with a blind eye to their falseness and begin to believe we need to look a certain way.”
• Anorexia Bulimia - Commercial - YouTube
  A conceptual commercial about anorexia and bulimia.
• Lindsay Lohan / Mary-Kate Olsen anorexia - YouTube
  A video about Lind’s and MK’s eating problems. (Song: Courage by Superchik)