Hugh Hefner didn’t just sexy up the women in Playboy, he also saved their lives, according to ex-girlfriend Cristal Camden … who credits Hef with curing her bulimia. Cristal dated Hef for about a year after they met in 2003. She was bulimic…
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Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Friday, September 15, 2017
Britt Nilsson: The Bachelor Made My Bulimia Worse!
Britt Nilsson just got married, you guys!
As happy as we are that the woman who appeared on The Bachelor and was briefly a co-Bachelorette, she"s sharing some troubling news about the history of her health.
As she discusses in the clip below, she"s suffered from addiction issues and from bulimia. And apparently her time on The Bachelor made things even worse.
Britt Nilsson appeared as a contestant on Chris Soules" season of The Bachelor.
This was just a couple of years ago.
Now she"s married, to a man named Jeremy Byrne.
In an appearance on The Doctors, Britt talks about her compulsive binge eating and how she used bulimia "like a bandaid" to avoid gaining weight from her compulsive habit.
When we talked about her wedding, we commented that their guests must have really loved the couple to commit to a wedding on a farm that doesn"t allow alcoholic beverages of any kind.
We now understand why that wasn"t a dealbreaker for Britt and Jer — as part of Britt"s addictive compulsions includes binging on alcohol just as she might on anything else.
So, yeah, a dry wedding undert those circumstances makes sense.
(Just because Britt can control herself doesn"t mean that doing so isn"t torture; let her enjoy her wedding)
Britt also gets into the way that the environment on The Bachelor was an exacerbating factor for her compulsive issues.
"Behind the scenes, there"s food everywhere."
Alcohol is often featured on those shows. Bachelor in Paradise recently enacted a 2-drink maximum per hour to deter binge drinking after this summer"s scandal.
It"s easy to see how food could also be a problem.
"It"s very high stress fitting into these really tiny ball gowns in front of millions of people"
We can only imagine.
"I felt more of a need to be perfect than ever."
Britt is gorgeous and has an incredible figure, but we have to remember that a disease like bulimia doesn"t allow people to view themselves objectively.
Britt took steps to keep her disorder a secret while on the set.
(Warning: this gets a little gross)
"I remember taking my mic off, hiding it under towels and throwing up."
Yeah, that"s gross.
She"d try to shame herself into stopping.
"Then [I"d look] in the mirror like: "You are going to get caught. You are such a mess. What are you doing? Stop, stop, stop" — and I couldn"t."
It didn"t work.
This plagued her after she left the show, too.
"I was doing a lot of modeling and as soon as we wrapped I would just start eating everything."
After-work meals are fine. Compulsive, unhealthy ones? Not so much.
"I made a vow to myself about two years ago after the show. I did a lot of soul-searching and I was like: "You know what? No matter what, I"m never throwing up again.""
That can"t have been very long ago. But good for her.
It"s relatively easy for people to recognize and understand bulimia and anorexia for what they are.
In one of them, you"re throwing up all of the time. That"s about as recognizable as illnesses get.
In both, you"re depriving your body of much-needed nutrients in ways that are detrimental to your health and can even eventually be fatal.
As you watch the video below, you might find that certain things sound like you — even if you don"t have an eating disorder.
Like, Britt talks about how her husband can have just one beer at a time without feeling a compulsive desire for more.
For me, I"m the same way (I don"t like beer; but with any alcohol)
She says that he can have just half a bag of chips at a time, and while I can certainly do that, I think that most of us have only planned to have a few chips and suddenly found that we"ve devoured a bag.
The same thing with eating everything in front of her simply because it"s there.
As her husband describes, that"s a normal thing — but for Britt, it"s a compulsion.
Scientists have linked the activity (or inactivity) of a particular gene to when people feel satisfied by their meals.
Some people eat a moderate amount of food and then just … stop, feeling satisfied. Other people eat until they"re full. Others, still, eat until they feel stuffed, and don"t feel satisfied until they do.
Even those in that third category don"t necessarily develop the compulsive eating habits. Others mitigate it with exercise, or by choosing their food carefully.
(Yes, you can absolutely "binge" on salad)
It"s good that Britt is finding ways to mitigate her disordered eating.
And can we just say that it"s also great that her husband is so supportive of her?
Watch this video and see what we mean:
It"s relatively easy for people to recognize and understand bulimia and anorexia for what they are.
In one of them, you"re throwing up all of the time. That"s about as recognizable as illnesses get.
In both, you"re depriving your body of much-needed nutrients in ways that are detrimental to your health and can even eventually be fatal.
As you watch the video below, you might find that certain things sound like you — even if you don"t have an eating disorder.
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Kate Middleton: Is This Proof She"s Suffering from Bulimia?!
Kate Middleton just cannot catch a break.
She can’t catch one with all those endless reports about how she’s the laziest royal in history, but lately she’s been the subject of a whole bunch of rumors about her health.
If we’re to believe the tabloids, Kate is suffering from bulimia.
Just yesterday, we discussed some new claims from the National Enquirer: claims about how the eating disorder knocked Kate, who is 5’9″, down to just 89 pounds.
If we’re to believe the Enquirer, Kate’s illness can be proved by just one photo of the duchess with a bandage on her finger.
“What does that even mean?” you might be wondering. “How can a bandage on a finger prove that she’s bulimic?”
Well, settle in, friends, because some doctor just ran his mouth to Radar and explained the whole dang thing.
Dr. Stuart Fischer explains that “It’s very common for women who suffer from bulimia to have cuts on their fingers and hands because they’re inducing vomiting, they are putting their fingers down their throat and will bite down on their fingers and knuckles.”
The good doctor continues by saying that “It’s highly suspicious that she is wearing band-aids on her hands so frequently.”
“It’s extremely unlikely she would be injured repetitively in these places on her hands. Kate would have to be a carpenter or someone opening oysters or claims for a living!”
Well, many people would say that Kate does literally nothing ever for a living, so that can’t be it.
But still, it seems like quite the conclusion to jump to, especially for a doctor, someone who knows how serious bulimia can be.
And he does know — he says that “It’s a frightful and damaging way to lose weight.”
“She’s got the best chefs in Europe,” he exclaims.
“She might feel immense pressure under the spotlight but it’s better than being under the ground in Westminster Abbey!”
Way to take it to a dark place, buddy.
While it’s true that Kate does have bandages on her fingers somewhat frequently — if you check out those three photos above, she’s wearing them in the first two, and her thumb appears to be cut in the third — that doesn’t mean she’s bulimic.
Maybe she likes to cook but isn’t that great at it. Maybe she has countless other hobbies that could hurt her fingers.
Or maybe little Charlotte is a biter. We don’t know.
The point is that yes, Kate is very thin, but she’s always been very thin. Sometimes that’s just how bodies are built.
Just because she’s slim and rocks a band-aid from time to time doesn’t mean she has an eating disorder, and it feels weird that we even have to say that.
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
The Biggest Loser Scandal: Did Bob Harper Promote Bulimia, Diet Pills?
A show focused on helping people lose weight is meant to be motivating and, at times, heartbreaking.
Yet, NBC’s The Biggest Loser has been plagued with accusations, from extreme weight loss to creating an unrealistic environment for contestants to continue after they leave the show.
A few contestants have revealed that they gained all of the weight they lost, and then some. This led to an even bigger discussion about metabolism and extreme weight loss.
Now, Los Angeles County police are looking into possibly “drug activity” at the King Gillette Ranch, where contestants stayed during their time on the show.
A few contestants have come forward with claims that trainer Bob Harper not only handed out appetite-suppressants, he also promoted eating disorders.
The point of The Biggest Loser is to retrain those with obesity issues to lose weight the healthy way, through diet and exercise.
TV ratings, however, matter more.
According to Radar Online, season two contestant Suzanne Mendonca claims that “People would take amphetamines, water pills and diuretics,” and vomit in the bathroom.
“I vomited every single day,” Mendonca admitted.
“Bob Harper tells people to throw up: ‘Good,’ he says. ‘You’ll lose more calories.’”
Joelle Gwynn participated on the “couples” season, and remembers Harper’s assistant giving her “a drug inside a brown paper bag,” and telling her that it would “really help” her lose weight.
Then, Gwynn said, the show’s physician, Dr. Robert Huizenga “gave us some lame explanation of why (the drugs) got added to our regimen and that it was up to us to take them.”
Dr. Huizenga refuted these claims, clarifying that the show administered drug tests to make sure diuretics and other weight-loss drugs weren’t being used.
Gwynn doesn’t buy it, though, and recalls Harper telling her off-camera to lie about her caloric intake of 1500 per day.
“I want you to do 800 calories or as little as you can,” Harper allegedly told his charge, likely in hopes that she would lose the most amount of weight and win the competition.
Harper spoke up about the claims, calling them “absolutely false.”
Trainer Jillian Michaels left the show in 2014 amid disagreements with producers. Though she never stated exactly why, some wonder if it was due to the treatment of contestants.
“I went to them and said I’d like to see these changes and they said no,” Michaels told the Daily Mail.
“So, I did not quit; they basically said, ‘No we’re not interested in changing x, y and z, so we will part ways.
“In all fairness, it was their show, so I said if we can’t do this, this and this, I’d like to be released, and they said you’re released.”
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