Nicole Richie and Weight Gain
People magazine have reported that Nicole Richie has gained 5 pounds - one month after seeking treatment for her "inability" to gain weight.
I shudder to think at the tremendous influence some celebrities can wield. As the weighing scales go up and down - a collective audience of thousands will watch - and measure their own selves against the celebrity yardstick.
Nicole Richie has denied the label "anorexic".
But then, maybe it's all semantics. As I walk down the street I see the photos of all the thin young women on the magazine covers. They are like women in children's bodies - almost as if they were denying their own adulthood.
A diagnosed eating disorder is a kind of madness (and I'm not trying to offend anyone). I recently encountered a blog that listed model Carolina Reston's death as "pro-ana inspiration"... yes, just like a suicide cult. A very very slow suicide.
Nicole Richie may or may not struggle with a mental disorder - however her situation shows that weight gain and management is a complex issue.
It is possible to get your body used to eating lower calories - your stomach shrinks and appetite declines. If you are used to eating foods that are not-so calorie dense - then gaining weight can become very challenging.
Add some anxiety and stress (and any number of substances) into the equation - and your body just doesn't metabolize food all that well.
Food can be demonized or it can become a god.
What really motivates our constant wrestling with the scales? Vanity? Fear? Loathing?
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If you've been having real gran mal seizures, you've been to the hospital, doctor's office, or ER, right? What did they say there?
ReplyThis is really not the kind of medical information one should be asking on a blog.
I need to gain weight because I'm apparently very underweight. I've tried and was successful, but I can't do it anymore because my body just can't take the amount of food that it is given anymore. I took meal replacements as snacks and gained about 10 pounds in a little less than 1 month. I wanna know how I can get the weight that I gain to go into muscle not store as fat. Can anyone help me with that?
ReplySo what is healthy to everyone- being fat? So many people criticize skinny women out of jealousy, otherwise, why would the topic be discussed so often? I've heard my fat friends rave about how beautiful certain fat celebrities are and its obvious they are doing it to make themselves feel better. I am skinny, not because of drugs or anerexia- its genetics. Nicole R is beautiful and tiny and perfect- leave her alone.
ReplySo Jan- how much weight should Nicole gain to make you happy? Do you want her fat? She is absolutely gorgeous and glowing with health. Men adore her and her only mental problem and health issues come from the media constantly criticizing every move she makes. Who cares if she gains or loses 5 lbs!? Again- leave the poor girl alone. She is famous because she's beautiful and those that rant are only jealous.
ReplyOh my god. first of all Nicole Richie IS gaining weight-hello shes preggers, so she'll probably be a more healthy weight after the baby arrives.
But Lily, oh god, you need to gain weight NOW if your being serious that is.
&dont obsess over your weight, it wont get you anywhere, live your life babe.
But you shouldnt go to online rooms to get reassurance, thats kind of odd.
peace.
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