Ok, careful anyone b4 u read this, it may be triggering...
I've dealt with anorexia, i was 5'5 and 88 lbs... and didnt think i was skinny...it was a mess... i deal with thinking im fat now, even though im at the low end of healthy range [5'6, 115 lbs.] then i read this thing that says "girls are most attrative with a BMI of 17% or less and most models are up to 3% less than that! well i have a BMI of 18-19%.... I WANT TO KNOW WHY ITS MORE ATTRACTIVE TO BE UNDERWEIGHT! oh and are there any people on this board who have gotten completely over anorexia? thanx! :bouncing:

o girl, the media messes with us! girls who r underweight are DEFINATELY not attractive!! i mean, im underweight and i look horrible!! please, ur doing good, dont go back to ur old ways!! looking pale and bony is not cool! besides, guys like bigger grls! hips and curves ARE IN!

hope i helped!

SammY

Hey girly :wave:

I'm 5'6" and 115lbs too, although I'm 20 so a bit older than you I think :) I have struggled with anorexia for years and years and I know how hard it is to be this weight. It's not healthy (apparently the lowest healthy weight for our height - BMI of 20 - is 124lbs) but we don't look seriously underweight. Some people will call us skinny and some people will say we have 'the perfect figure'...I'm guessing you get similar comments to me being the same weight/height. I think I'm fat too, in fact I've gone from 112lbs to 115lbs in the last week and really struggling with it, I feel like I need a 5-10lbs 'cushion' just in case I eat loads or something for a few days, I have to know that I can do that and not be fat, but right now I'm really struggling to believe I look nice. But you know what? At this weight or even 7lbs heavier I've never had a comment about my weight other than 'you're too skinny' or 'you've got the perfect figure'. I even had interest from modelling agencies when I was 116lbs. So if that applies to me then it applies to you too!!

If you actually look at the models in all the photos coming out of London Fashion Week and Milan Fashion Week at the moment they all look so skinny it's ridiculous. I mean they must all have eating disorders or else just work out all the time to be that thin. And IT ISN'T ATTRACTIVE!!!! You ask any man and they don't want some stick insect for a girlfriend. It's only celebrities who are obsessed with being unhealthily thin - I mean, all that stuff that came out recently about Liz Hurley only eating once a day and weighing 105lbs when she's 5'9"...that's just wrong. We shouldn't be forced into starving ourselves for society to accept us.

Do you mind me asking where you read this comment about girls being more attractive if they're underweight? Coz the thing is, the whole point of the BMI scale is for you to find a healthy weight, and if you're healthy you're far more attractive than if you're pale and skinny. Don't pay any attention to the media coz it just messes with your head. We all know that you can't believe anything you read in the paper anyway :)

Stick with your recovery ocurt! If anything you're still underweight now, but please please please don't go back to the way things were, it's not worth it and you won't be happier, you know you won't.

J*L xxx

yeah, i am younger, i'm 14... thanx u guys! u helped so much, i feel so much better now! thanx again, u guys are great! :bouncing: