Famous People with
Eating Disorders

Anyone in the world can develop eating disorders. It can be genetic, physiological, psychological and neural or it may be a self inflicted and imposed condition. Many people have naturalistic eating disorders while some develop it due to lifestyle compulsions.

Princess Diana

Eating disorders can be treated and should be addressed at the right time.

Many famous people have overcome eating disorders to either put on some weight to look fabulous or to lose the extra weight to look spellbinding. However, not keeping eating disorders in check or living in denial can be fatal, as has also been the case with many famous people.

List of Famous People with Eating Disorders

Karen Carpenter, Fiona Apple, Justine Bateman, Sia and Shane Barbi, Portia de Rossi, Daniel Johns and Calista Flockheart are just some of the celebrities who have or had anorexia. Kate Winslet, Oprah Winfrey, Paula Abdul and Candace Cameron Bure are some famous people who had bulimia.

Kate Winslet is a self-confessed foodie and so is Oprah Winfrey. Is it then not commendable how Kate managed to stay slim for so many of her movies and how Oprah lost so much weight and amazed the world?

Karen Carpenter

Eating disorders when addressed wouldn’t become a cause of greater concern but when unchecked it would be undesirable. Keira Knightley and Tara Reid are some scary realities when anorexia goes unchecked and the sad fate of Isabella Caro, a French actress who died due to complications arising out of anorexia at an age of 28, are some avoidable outcomes if eating disorders are checked and addressed on time.

4 Major Types …

The four major types of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorders and obesity. Anorexia is a condition where one doesn’t eat at all and tends to grow thin to an extent where muscles and bones lose their mass and the body is bereaved of all fat. Bulimia nervosa which is also known as bulimia is an eating disorder that is characterized by overeating, binge eating and finally purging.

Bulimic patients tend to be underweight or normal weight. Binge eating disorder is classified as an eating disorder in the DSM-V and patients are typically overweight. And also recently, obesity is being called a disease by the American Medical Association.

John Candy

Eating disorders are not desirable. When kids have it, parents wonder if the kids are simply being mischievous and avoiding food. When adults have it, they are thought to be either compulsive as is in case of anorexia or a glutton as is in case of binge eaters, though in many references it does not yet have its own category.

Conclusion

From the rich and famous all the way across the board to those in poverty in developing nations, no one is immune to the spectrum of eating disorders that connect people in an unhealthy way, everywhere we look.