Body Image Activist, Eating Disorders mamaVISION

I’ve been reading REAL magazine since they started publishing, and I’ve got to say these girls have something totally unique (and there artwork rules!)

The About Us Page describes REAL as;

REAL is a heart beat, a love letter, a wink, a kiss, a smile, a tear, a hug. REAL is two hands holding, a single idea, a dream, a fire, a sea, a crazy pirate, a colour, a song, a season. Being real can’t be written in words, there’s no manual on how to be real, because we are all real, if we exist we are real.

REAL is written by young women from across the world. It was created to inspire you to do amazing and outrageous things. We aim to challenge you to think outside the box and consider want being real is to you.

Join them! I promise you will start to think a bit differently about yourself, and the world around you.

Love,

mV

Now that I am done hyperventilating over this situation, I think I am in a half way reasonable state of mind to write this post about the Diesel Be Stupid ad campaign, sent to me by the mother of a 14-year-old daughter who was subject to this ad from Nylon Magazine.

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This is a good one — check out the side by side images of a “normal” skinny mini sized model next to Plus-sized model Crystal Renn, reported by Daily Mail.

In this soon to be published magazine editorial in V Magazine, hands down Renn is rockin’.  Now is this because she is a better model, does she have a better bod, or something else?

Here are their stats:

Renn, 5′9 age 23, size 16

pictured alongside fashion’s latest new face;

Jacquelyn Jablonski, 5′ 9, age 17, size zippo

See more pictures next page.

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Earlier this month, December 2009

Prior photo showing a more healthy looking Brittany

I woke up to the news that Actress Brittany Murphy had died. As actresses goes, she seemed to be relatively cool one, and really quite a beauty. To bad she didn’t know it.

Brittany died of cardiac arrest at age 32.

Rumors of drug use and plastic surgery addiction are also swirling.

The paparazzi vultures are all over this story at the moment, so as I bounced between TMZ and Huffington, the reports are all over the place, so I’ll keep an eye on the loss of this young talent.

But my gut tells me that the toxicology reports will come back with some sort of cause of death associated with the actresses recently shrinking frame and fragile appearance of someone who perhaps could not, would not, did not seek help for her ED.

Hooray for Hollywood,

mV

UPDATED 12/22/09…more information on reported heart condition, eating disorder and/or drug abuse

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I am saddened and amazed that no matter what I write about, my web statistics on this blog and my collective body image blog WeAreTheRealDeal.com show that the Number #1 search term is…..

PRO ANA

And variations of Pro Ana as you can see below. WTF? (Of course the beloved Nicole still pops up).

So, since this tells me many proana girls are here, let’s have a chat. It’s been awhile.

For those of you that are new, like those I connected with on Twitter recently, here’s the brief history about this blog 2006-present:

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