Reply to Too thin? At what point to friends intervene. Nicole Kidman allegedly is “too thin “

Forum Index » Beauty and Fashion

Reply to "Too thin? At what point to friends intervene. Nicole Kidman allegedly is “too thin “"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A really high percentage of middle-aged white women I know have really bad stomach issues like IBS and end up with limited diets.  I was always thinner than my sister but in her 40s she suddenly got horrific gut problems, after a bad infection (hospitalized), that have left her totally unable to eat gluten and dairy.  So now she's way thinner than I am.   She basically has to eat a crazy healthy diet of lean proteins and vegetables, or she's disabled (she was out of work for a year before the doctors came up with this plan for her).  That's an extreme example, but I know a lot of women with some variation of this.  Almost all the middle aged women I know that are extremely thin have some sort of stomach/gut issue that is leading to restricted eating.  Of course, I'm sure some of the stars do it because of social pressure, but I think the medical stuff is under-recognized.[/quote]
Do you think this is what’s happened to Nichole?[/quote]

I'm not saying anything that extreme (but who knows -- people aren't really public about having things like explosive diarrhea), but I would bet she has at least some gut issues.  She's also Irish extraction and gluten intolerance is super common among the Irish -- its a genetic thing, like alcohol intolerance in certain Asians. And once you can't eat gluten, it's almost hard to keep on weight unless you're eating fried potatoes or white rice all day.  Most of the easy calorie food has gluten.

I have another friend whose friends staged in intervention for her -- they would go out after work all the time to bars and she never ate anything really, and they all thought she was anorexic.  She had horrible IBS and greasy bar food gave her explosive diarrhea/farts.  She didn't really advertise that, and would just go to be social, and have a drink.  She was very thin, but was normal weight before the medical issues started in her 30s.

So whenever I hear people judging these middle aged women who are very thin, I think that a medical issue is more likely than an eating disorder. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics