Thursday, December 5, 2013

'Thinspiration' Packages Eating Disorders as a Lifestyle Choice

Thinspiration-ursula

Rachel Cowey calls her illness "Ursula." It helped to picture an enemy, the witch in The Little Mermaid who manipulates Ariel into giving up her voice


The eating disorder had ravaged her body, leaving her with osteoporosis at 19. Cowey stares into the shaky camera in her bedroom“I am not anorexia. I am Rachel,” she declares, as if staring Ursula square in the eye


She’s broadcasting on the Team Recovery YouTube channel (video below), where Cowey and cofounders Sarah Robertson and Ali McPherson discuss the lows of battling an eating disorder and the highs of recovering from one


The three women conceptualized Team Recovery after confronting the overwhelming mountain of online content that worships extreme thinness Read more...


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