I'd guess she probably eats a very restricted diet. Lean proteins + veggies kind of thing. She was probably 15-20lbs heavier when she was at university.

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Oh Lord, we've had this discussion already.

No, she is not anorexic. Anorexia is a rare and life-threatening mental illness. Not every thin person is anorexic.

Europeans are generally much thinner than Americans (not exactly hard!).

Some people find it hard to gain weight at certain points in their life - my mother is like this, and she eats quite normally.

She is probably very conscious of her image and has the means to perfect it - which again, in Europe, is a perfectly good one.

[b]Anorexia is not rare.[/b]

"An estimated 0.5 to 3.7 percent of women suffer from anorexia nervosa in their lifetime." From the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders.
Please don't lump people who casually worry about their weight and diet, with people who have a true disease - it muddies the water for everyone and doesn't help patients.

Consider this: 69% of american women are overweight.
Even though anorexia CAN take place in someone who is overweight, it tends to happen with thinner people. So let's just take women who are normal weight, not even really skinny. 3.7% of the general population means that fully 10% of the normal weight women you see are struggling with anorexia. There's a good chance that it's going to be represented in the very skinny/underweight.
So when you see a woman who is extremely, extremely skinny, it's not at all unlikely that she is struggling with anorexia.
I have struggled with it myself, and it's a bitch to overcome.
And yes, in my opinion- I think Kate could very well have it.

I understand your point, but disagree with the bolded. It's only Americans who will see her as "extremely, extremely thin". As a French woman, all I see is a slim young woman, like the many who walk to their jobs in the morning on Parisian streets in their high heels. You think she's abnormally thin because the majority of Americans are overweight, so obviously your visual standard for the average human shape has shifted toward the pudgy, since it's all we see here! Which, BTW, is the most insidious danger of this obesity crisis: the fact that Americans grow up without strong visual references to normal healthy bodies.

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Anonymous wrote:She may not be Anorexic, but she is more than likely underweight, which is not healthy.

That's debatable. Sever studies indicate underweight people live longer than average sized.

You have it backwards...most studies show that Overweight people live longer than normal people.

Link please?

Overweight people.do not live longer and they are not healthier than skinny people.

I don't know about anorexia but am I the only one who thinks she looks like she's wearing a wig and has the face of a sharp pei? Shocking for someone so young.

Anonymous wrote:Too bony for my taste. She needs to gain 10-15 pounds and round out a bit, she is not at a healthy weight at first glance, and people like that generally have problems as they get older because of it.

You know, she looks like she has a higher body fat ratio than those women on my mom's island that live well into their hundreds and are considered some of the healthiest people in the world.

Perhaps our view in America is skewed as to what a healthy weight is.

We are bombarded with images of incredibly fat and obese people, where overweight is considered "healthy" or "average", or on the flip side skinny movie stars with cosmetically enhanced boobs, butts, cheeks and lips that give a completely wrong view as to what healthy skinny looks like.

I bet if Kate had breast implants you would not be posting this and would think she looked just fine.

She's much, much thinner then she used to be (and she has never been anything close to overweight) so while I don't know if she has full-blown anorexia I personally think she does not look as healthy as she used to.

Not sure what the European poster is talking about because the facts are that obesity rates in Europe are skyrocketing http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Overweight_and_obesity_-_BMI_statistics -- almost 50% of the population is overweight or obese.

I'm Asian so we tend to see all white people -- European or American -- tending to be larger/fatter.

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Anonymous wrote:She may not be Anorexic, but she is more than likely underweight, which is not healthy.

That's debatable. Sever studies indicate underweight people live longer than average sized.

Actually no. Studies have actually shown being underweight is as dangerous as obesity, sometimes more.

May I step in here? I'm a biologist. Research has shown that certain restricted calorie diets are linked to longevity. Calorie restriction is not the same measure as being underweight.

No. I know women's bodies. Thin, not anorexic.

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Anonymous wrote:She may not be Anorexic, but she is more than likely underweight, which is not healthy.

That's debatable. Sever studies indicate underweight people live longer than average sized.

You have it backwards...most studies show that Overweight people live longer than normal people.

She has to be photographed all the type wearing stylish clothing. If she were a normal weight like she was when she was younger in university, everyone would say she was fat and a shame to great Britain.

Anonymous wrote:Too bony for my taste. She needs to gain 10-15 pounds and round out a bit, she is not at a healthy weight at first glance, and people like that generally have problems as they get older because of it.

She's already having problems with it, hence the wrinkly forehead and eyes. At her age it's kind of tragic.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She may not be Anorexic, but she is more than likely underweight, which is not healthy.

That's debatable. Sever studies indicate underweight people live longer than average sized.

Actually no. Studies have actually shown being underweight is as dangerous as obesity, sometimes more.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Oh Lord, we've had this discussion already.

No, she is not anorexic. Anorexia is a rare and life-threatening mental illness. Not every thin person is anorexic.

Europeans are generally much thinner than Americans (not exactly hard!).

Some people find it hard to gain weight at certain points in their life - my mother is like this, and she eats quite normally.

She is probably very conscious of her image and has the means to perfect it - which again, in Europe, is a perfectly good one.

Anorexia is not rare.

"An estimated 0.5 to 3.7 percent of women suffer from anorexia nervosa in their lifetime." From the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders.
Please don't lump people who casually worry about their weight and diet, with people who have a true disease - it muddies the water for everyone and doesn't help patients.

Consider this: 69% of american women are overweight.

Even though anorexia CAN take place in someone who is overweight, it tends to happen with thinner people. So let's just take women who are normal weight, not even really skinny. 3.7% of the general population means that fully 10% of the normal weight women you see are struggling with anorexia. There's a good chance that it's going to be represented in the very skinny/underweight.

So when you see a woman who is extremely, extremely skinny, it's not at all unlikely that she is struggling with anorexia.

I have struggled with it myself, and it's a bitch to overcome.

And yes, in my opinion- I think Kate could very well have it.

Too bony for my taste. She needs to gain 10-15 pounds and round out a bit, she is not at a healthy weight at first glance, and people like that generally have problems as they get older because of it.

Anonymous wrote:She may not be Anorexic, but she is more than likely underweight, which is not healthy.

That's debatable. Sever studies indicate underweight people live longer than average sized.