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Jennifer Kirk: Eating disorders are rampant in skating
Topic Started: Jul 7 2009, 03:58 AM (487 Views)
kioewen
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It's the most appalling but least surprising thing I've ever heard:

http://trueslant.com/jenniferkirk/2009/07/05/skatings-not-so-secret-shame/

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Many in the skating world have and are struggling with this epidemic that controlled my mind and my body for so many years.

I had an eating disorder.

being in the skating world fostered the disease and made the completely horrible things I was doing to my body every day seem “normal.”

Other skaters, many of whom were my close friends at the time, didn’t see the weekly weigh-ins in such a humorous light, and a few of them developed eating disorders; perhaps as a result of these public weigh-ins and my coach’s sometimes insensitive comments

The more I was living in this weight-obsessed sport, the more I sunk deeper and deeper into my own web of eating disorder hell. I couldn’t believe that so many skaters struggled with the same thing as me, and yet so many of them appeared completely content with ruining their bodies in order to achieve a certain image. I wondered why none of my coaches or the people around me had tried to stop me from my self-destruction? Why none of these skaters got help? Perhaps it was because this was the “norm” and being thin and a particular weight was more important than a skater’s health?

I used to hope that Emily would be a healthy alternative to this obsession with thinness, and would show that skaters do NOT need to look anorexic.

Sadly, now she too has become nearly as emaciated-looking as the rest.

It's hard to be a fan of this sport, and I've wanted to be. But it's just as bad as the fashion industry in ruining girls' body image.
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Jul 7 2009, 03:58 AM
I used to hope that Emily would be a healthy alternative to this obsession with thinness, and would show that skaters do NOT need to look anorexic.

Sadly, now she too has become nearly as emaciated-looking as the rest.
Agreed. IMO, Emily looked her best when she had some meat on her bones. Now, she is rail thin compared to past years. I hope she isn't included in this grouping.
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