National Eating Disorders Awareness Week: Mind the Gap

National Eating Disorders Awareness Week: February 21-27, 2016 A few days ago, I was swiveling back and forth in the beauty salon chair, paging through the latest issue of Vogue, and waiting for the timer to ping! so that my stylist could wash the purple-that-turns-black dye from my hair. My gray strands aren't like Emmylou Harris's silvery waterfall, but more wiry crone variety. For better or worse, I fight time, and, added bonus, at the salon I read all the glossy magazines that I don't buy for myself in the forty minutes it takes for the dye's transformative magic to work. Except this time, as I flipped the pages, what should have been a vapid fashion ad knocked the breath from me. A beautiful model (redundancy) with long, achromatic hair pinned in a disheveled up-do, wore a Nappa leather halter-top and pants, more costly than my monthly mortgage payment. She perched on rickety heels constructed with wire-thin strings crisscrossing her toes and ankles. Her face was glacial, as if she had spent a week scrubbing it with a pumice down to its angled bones. But all of this, really, is ordinary. On most pages of Vogue or Elle you find a similar presentation. What stopped me was the gap. The gap between her pants and her body. More specifically, the gap between the waist of her pants and her waist. The pants didn't fit. The anorexic gap. I thought: A.) The stylists put her in pants that were too big; or B.) The model was deliberately too small for the infinitesimally small p...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news