These websites show girls how 'easy' it is to lose weight, I've just read an interview with a girl name Stephanie, for years she was anorexic and use to visit these pro-ana websites with tips on how to stay skinny without passing out and still being able to fool your loved ones. She called it 'thinspiration' and had hundreds of followers, even though she has now recovered, she still visits these sites to let everyone know that she's 'pro recovery' and urging new members to exit the site, delete their history and speak to family members about it before it's too late. Since doing this Stephanie's 'followers' have decreased majorly. She claims her life is back on track now but she still counts every calorie she eats, she can't eat cereal with anything bigger than a tea spoon and she gets regular migraines and stomach cramps.
She also mentioned that no one explained the side effects of her weight lose, no one on the sites would comment her pictures mentioning that her hair was falling out or her body was covered in fine, downy hair and in the long run you could end up with osteoporosis.
She says of her ordeal 'being skinny doesn't make you happy, it makes you depressed and drained, I didn't have the energy to leave the house, it made my life miserable. As far as I'm concerned theres nothing good about being so skinny'
this image shows Stephanie's dramatic weight loss
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