[ SECRET POST #3028 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3028 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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16. [ POSSIBLY TRIGGERY for eating disorders ]













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 083 secrets from Secret Submission Post #433.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

16. http://i.imgur.com/J6OzkOj.png

[(Anonymous)]

What the fuck is this shit? Since when does pro-ana stuff belong on FS??? For fucks sake.

[(Anonymous)]

Is thinspiration always pro-ana?

[(Anonymous)]

wooooob woob woob woob woob

I'm Doctor Zoidberg

[(Anonymous)]

That's what I was wondering, too.

[(Anonymous)]

As long as you are healthy, continue on with your bad self.

[(Anonymous)]

They might be physically healthy right now, but the sheer amount of obsession over their weight (they've posted here before, btw, several times, making the same sort of comments, so this isn't a one-off it's a pattern of behavior) is not healthy in the slightest.

[(Anonymous)]

If you'd been considerate enough to include a trigger warning when you submitted this, I'd have more sympathy for your not wanting to tell your fandom friends.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

OP it's good to have inspiration to stay healthy but it's not good to think your body type needs to be exactly like another persons. You should concentrate on finding a body weight that is healthy and comfortable FOR YOU not for some celeb.

And just because they are taller it does not mean you should be ashamed that you weighed more, we all carry weight differently and there are some people who are always going to be a little lighter or heavier regardless of their height.

If you are losing weight in a healthy way then I am very happy for you! But be careful about getting obsessed with numbers and stay healthy!

[ariakas]

Eh, 99 lbs could be perfectly healthy depending on how tall you are. IIRC Zoe's 5'7", so at 115lbs she's exactly 18.0 on the BMI charts, which is about as thin as is healthy, so... rock on, I guess? Just don't go any lower.

Sorry

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry about the lack of trigger warning.

I made a bunch of secrets at once and forgot to include it because when I was in a hurry submitting them before I headed to work.

I know that's no excuse but I apologize if I triggered anyone.

(OP here)

Um, maybe I'm being stupid here . . .

[feotakahari]

But when did FS start disliking "thinspiration"? I know it was considered an okay term around here back in 2010, and I thought it got positive responses as recently as 2013.

[(Anonymous)]

The amount of people who are overly sensitive about their weight has really skyrocketed here, if even mentioning the word thinspiration causes this kind of reaction.

[othellia]

Well, I say good on you, OP.

I just looked up Zoe Saldana's stats and she's pretty similar to me, so if that having that BMI's considered pro-ana well then I guess I've been pro-ana/anorexic myself this entire time. I never knew.

Obviously as long as you're keeping everything healthy, that's a fine goal.

[raspberryrain]

Simply having the same BMI as Zoe Saldana isn't the same as being in the same shape as Zoe Saldana, and unless you're a dancer, with a coincidentally very similar skeleton, you're probably not going to be.

Further, without knowing what your frame looks like, I can't say whether it's even good for your BMI to be that low. We aren't all built like Zoe Saldana.

I'm not saying you should go out and become a professional dancer. I'm just saying you need to be able to be healthy enough for you, whatever that means.

[(Anonymous)]

OP, please consider talking to someone about your obsessive focus on your weight.

You've posted several similar things on F!S recently, and whether or not your body is healthy right now, your way of thinking certainly isn't.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I guess this was a stupid secret and I'm sorry to anyone who was triggered by it.

I suppose it's just that I was being a bit of an attention whore since no one in my life has noticed that I've lost any weight. I guess I just thought that losing 19.7% of my body weight...well..someone might have taken note, you know? (I used to weigh 142 and was 114 this morning.) And I just wanted to share with someone. But it's not something I felt like I could share on Tumblr with other Zoe fans for the reasons I mentioned in the secret.

Wow.

[(Anonymous)]

OP is at a healthy weight. OP is keeping close eye on this while they lose weight. Apparently this means OP has an eating disorder. WOW!

Apparently knowing your weight and being able to do basic math (so you can tell what % you have lost), means you must be starving yourself.

Huh

[kaijinscendre]

I've mentioned on here that I have been trying to lose weight (I've lost 70 pounds since 2014). While I don't have any opinion on OP's wording, I find some of the things people are using to prove OP has anorexia weird.

Keeping a close eye on your weight (and loss) is not unusual. It goes along with keeping a close eye on your caloric intake (some people keep diaries on everything they eat). You also need to pay close attention to how much your work out (I use apps to record all of this).

Sure, this can dip into unhealthy territory. But doing it isn't automatically indicative of an eating disorder.

Your wank bait is obvious but nice try

[(Anonymous)]

You must be that anon who keeps on hating Saldana and calls her anorexic just because she's a naturally thin girl and doesn't have a big butt or big boobs (reminds me a girl over trekbbs who also was quite obsessed about Zoe being 'too skinny'). Last time they were complaining that she isn't curvy enough for Uhura, in another they said she starved herself while pregnant (wtf). Wouldn't surprise me if you were the one who started that Lupita vs Zoe wank in a recent secret where you posted their body 'ratios' to prove whateva point you were trying to make. So creepy. I really hope you are just trolling.

I get that hollywood and fashion designers have sick standards when it comes to being slim, but naturally thin women do exist and calling them anorexic or unhealthy isn't less offensive than those who call curvier women 'fat'.
Anorexia is a serious thing and if you label any slim girl like that then you probably never met anyone who had that sickness otherwise, believe me, you'd shut up.

Women come in all shapes and sizes, but apparently in 2015 some of you still don't get that and you criticize an Audrey Hepburn for not being like Marilyn Monroe, and you criticize Keira Knightley for not being a Pamela Anderson (irony)

(If the secret was real I'd tell you that you shouldn't try to get Zoe's body type if you don't have it in your genes because what is healthy for her body might not be for yours)

[(Anonymous)]

Am I the only one who thinks the oddest part of this secret is that they specified wanting to be 98 and a half pounds? It's just an odd number and it's really hard to constantly stay something and a half pounds because most people's weight fluctuates by half a pound or more throughout the day anyway

Transcript

[(Anonymous)]

Image: pictures of Zoe Saldana

Text: SHE is my thinspiration. I recently got down to 115 lbs. I used to be so ashamed that she was a full 5 inches taller than me but weighed so much less. I want to get down 98.5 so we’ll have the same BMI.

S!B I’m proud of my weight loss, but I don’t want to tell my fandom friends because I don’ think they would support me. (Or it could make them feel bad.)

[blitzwing]

Just keep in mind that that BMI--it may not be what *Zoe* wants as her BMI. She very well may want to be bigger. Maybe she'd prefer to eat more, or more things she likes, and exercise less, and be a little bigger. There is a ton of pressure on people in the entertainment business to starve themselves and be thin.

In Kylie Bisutti's memoir she weighed in at 115 while being taller than Zoe, and she was screamed at for being a fat disgusting pig, and told that her weight was why didn't get a gig in Fashion Week, resulting in her starving herself down to 100lbs and adding a nude photo to her portfolio she didn't feel comfortable doing or showing. This was a 14 or 15 year old girl. (And yes, after doing that she got several gigs).

Portia de Rossi's memoir is also a good one, and she described doing an interview with either Allure or Self--and she claims she lied her ass off about her weight and the way she lost it. She was actually keeping the weight off by starving herself, purging, and exercising for hours a day.

In other words, it may not be possible to maintain the goal BMI you want in a healthy way.

[(Anonymous)]

Saldana is or at least used to be bulimic.