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Front & back of small cards left for you to find. Ready, set, search!
Filed under anorexia, body image, eating disorders, found items, pro-ana, pro-health, yanyb, you are not your body
Tags: anorexia, body image, eating disorders, found items, pro-health, proana, yanyb, you are not your body
13 Comments
January 29, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Hey! Check this out: http://mamavision.com/2008/01/29/who-is-the-council-of-fashion-designers-of-america/
January 29, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Breathtaking!! Would you please email me?
I would like to learn more about this project and if it’s okay to repost one
of these little cards on my blog and direct readers here. Thanks!
January 30, 2008 at 6:01 am
Incredibly moving and powerful. The second one made me cry.
Kat
January 30, 2008 at 6:22 am
Incredibly powerful and moving. The second one made me cry.
Kat
January 30, 2008 at 11:11 pm
MamaV- I’m so glad you used these pictures! You are my wordpress idol ; )
Sandy- It was wonderful talking to you. I’m in the middle of reading your blog as I speak (er, type).
Kat- I hope it wasn’t too sad. What did you take out of it?
January 31, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Oh, I love these cards… what a wonderful message.
My blog is private, but feel free to email if you’d like to read.
Z
February 1, 2008 at 3:14 am
YANYB,
I took out of it that I might not be here if my dad and I hate to say it , but my mom, had known I was going to be fat for the majority of my life.
I didn’t have my child until I was 35. I was ready. It took us a year to get pregnant. She was a wanted child. We went for an amniocentesis. I was on the table and they were just about ready to insert the needle. I expressed concern about the small risk of losing the baby due to the amnio itself. They asked me if I would abort the baby if something was found to be wrong with it. My husband and I both cried out in unison, “No!”
They said, “Well, what are you doing here then?” We left. Our daughter ended up having Cystic Fibrosis. We would have taken her fat or skinny, CF or no CF.
It just makes me cry to think that a baby could be aborted simply because it might end up a fat person. It is like having a fat child is a curse from the depths of hell that must be stopped. Anything but a fat child. Kill the fat child. Sad.
February 1, 2008 at 8:56 am
Hi,
Just a personal note for you(not a comment). I am herintro AND Kat. We are the same. Sorry if that was confusing.
Kat
February 2, 2008 at 5:33 am
Hi, I’m here via junkfoodscience and I wanted to say I love these cards! I was just wondering if you could point me to where you got your statistics, especially for the second card in this post. I want to bring this up in a discussion elsewhere, but I want to be able to prove that the numbers aren’t made up. Thanks!
February 2, 2008 at 5:34 am
Just realized that even though the site messed up the first time I posted the comment actually went through. Sorry about that.
February 2, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Hi, Amy! I was hoping someone would ask where these are coming from. It’s not very smart to believe statistics out of nowhere, right? A lot of my information comes from nedic.ca. It’s a great, comprehensive site. The second card has a quote from Laura Fraser’s book: Losing it: America’s obsession with weight and the industry that feeds on it.
February 2, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Kat- That is such a beautiful story. I want the world to be like you, accepting of every difference a person has. Thank you so much for sharing <3
February 4, 2008 at 11:26 am
Thank you so much! I’ll definitely check that book out.