I wrote to them yesterday I was so appalled..., their article not only triggered me, and it had me in tears as well.
To have chantelle pose like that looking happy and laughing (and very slim) with all that food around her, is a clear promotion of a E.D to me ('hey kids, eat what you like and look like chantelle')
even more perversely Chantelle says quite clearly in the article that she 'never did the binging thing' and that she was underweight meaning she didn't actually have bulimia,(I'm no doctor but from what I've read up about it, doesnt it make her anorexic (purging type) or ednos? )So to place her in all that food was even more disgusting. . . I felt like my disease was being exploited here to get headlines, and I know this is probably just irrational on my part, but I felt like they were saying bulimia was a more acceptable eating disorder than anorexia. (Not to mention easier to overcome, she only admitted she had it a week ago) .furthermore, regardless of which eating disorder she had, it still killed me that they thought it was acceptable to publish, and extremely insensitive.

sorry for the rant here, that whole article just really got to me

That pisses me off. I dare them to make light of a cancer survivor's struggle as they have with an eating disorder.

I'd really like to know what the general population's justification is for "picking on" eating disorders and their sufferers and giving them a bad name or making light of it. Why this, and not cancer? Diabetes?

exactly, where are the pictures of kylie, laughing prettily with her hair all fallen out around her? a sick, sad disturbing image, yet its ok when its E.D?

I know. It infuriates me. They would have everyone after them and their business may even be in jeopardy if they were to joke around with something "so much more serious." But why is it only us ED sufferers that give them a hard time about it? Why are we alone, why doesn't anyone else see that it's as serious a disease as any other, why don't they stand up for us as well?

We really need some major ED-themed organizations to be created so we can teach the public what it's really about. The media needs to stop ridiculing it, and they will, once the public is educated enough.

I think I'm inspiring myself to do something, lol.

its disgusting, i know they shouldnt but things like that really trigger and hurt me, my aunty died from an ED and the journalist obviously dont realise how triggering and offencive they are being, they should be writing stuff thats more infomative and helpful, not that rubbish!!

Don't forget that Chantelle is promoting her new video about nutrition. Look she's a media puppet, getting on the bandwaggon with only one brain cell.

Does anyone know if this can be found online? I'm interested to see it...

sounds disgusting. leaning over a toilet, barfing, is NOT glamorous.