to clarify

[efface]

i hear so many people talk about eating disorders and people who have them, i just feel the need to talk about it from my point of view.

what do i hear? how ungrateful we are that we can afford food but choose not to eat it. how we should just "eat a hamburger". how we're all a product of society's vision of perfection

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[minveg]

I'm sorry I didn't see this post sooner, I'm not sure how I missed this

[efface]

wait a minute. i never, ever compromised my animal rights beliefs. i never handed out coupons for meat products, and i never would. same with fur, leather, animal testing, or anything else AR-related. i handed out blockbuster coupons for free video game rentals, etc. granted, BB is a big corporation, but it has nothing to do with my AR beliefs

D'oh!

[minveg]

i never handed out coupons for meat products, and i never would. same with fur, leather, animal testing, or anything else AR-related.

Actually, I apologize for that... I completely read that post wrong. You were handing out the things at some barbeque (or something like that?) and not for some barbeque. So I totally read that wrong (and yeah, I did read it that way the first time around! Yipe!).

modeling, as of right now, is something i do on the side to (as disgusting as this may sound) kind of feed my own vanity.

I didn't know that, I thought of it more as a stepping stone to something larger, since I always thought your goal was to be an actress or something more along those lines.

Re: D'oh!

[efface]

it was sort of a stepping stone, but i don't know how much i'll ever be able to do with it, considering i'm so short and everything. but it is good to meet new people in the biz and all that. and yes, my goal is in acting, which i'm going about by doing the modeling, promotions, and our own movies.

[seamonkey]

Hell is walking down the street and having things assumed about you that aren't true, like you eat too much or junk food or don't exercise or are a couch potato. Hell is loving people and having them not willing to take a risk to be seen in public with you. Hell is having to look yourself in the mirror and hate what you see but feel like you can't do anything about it (and, in that case, we might actually have something in common). And hell is letting food or marketing or whatever else control your life.You can have the same things happen to you if you're too thin. Some people are just naturally that way, but everyone assumes they don't eat or over excersize. I have a friend who is naturally tiny tiny, and she gets negative comments about her size all the time, and has people shoving food at her. Looking in the mirror is hell if you have a negative self image is hell whether you're overweight, underweight, or normal. I've been obese, underweight, and a normal weight, and I couldn't stand looking in the mirror at any time