Body Image Activist, Eating Disorders mamaVISION

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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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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Howdy! A little blog reconstruction going on here so don’t freak. I’ll be working on a new look and feel so you’ll see continual changes, but in the meantime you’ll see my old header and navigation.

Fall 2006 First header image, what a youngster!

OPEN FORUM!

In the meantime, how about we bring back the open forum? For those of you who are new, the open forum was just an open post where we all chatted about whatever, whenever, and we ended up making a lot of friends. No rules, just talk – go here to check it out.

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mamaV needs a breather! I am on hiatus for a few weeks…..in the meantime visit We Are The Real Deal, my collective blog from body image activists.