DL fave/plus size model Tess Holliday announces that she's anorexic

Hey, Tess.

You can't have it both weighs.

As we say at the DL.

Because science!

R2 The DSM-5 literally lists having a low body weight as the first symptom of Anorexia Nervosa.

Stop it, smart asses, she self-identifies as anorexic therefore she is

R4 My sister was actually diagnosed with Anorexia in college. She insisted that she was "fat" when she looked like a skin covered skeleton.

If someone restricts their eating most of the time and goes on massive binges every once in a while, then their weight could still be above normal while they’re technically suffering from anorexia.

But you don’t get to be the size of an adult tiger by restricting your intake. Something doesn’t add up here.

No, R6, that's just a binging disorder. Anorexics don't binge--at least not without immediate purging. And if they do that regularly enough they're bulimics, not anorexics.

I remember when I turned 16 a friend gave me a birthday card with a fat lady on it eating cake with the saying “ANOREXIA? WHERE CAN I GET SOME??”

[quote] If someone restricts their eating most of the time and goes on massive binges every once in a while, then their weight could still be above normal while they’re technically suffering from anorexia.

Read it again R6:

[quote] The DSM-5 literally lists having a low body weight as the first symptom of Anorexia Nervosa.

Tess might have BED but not anorexia.

Also, for anorexics, what would be considered a "binge" would usually barely be considered a meal to most.

Doesn't this bitch mean bulimia?

I wish her well, but I still demand accuracy from attention whores proclaiming illness.

This is some Grade A Fat Logic.

No, there was a revision in the criteria for anorexia and body weight is not included anymore.

DSM-5 Criteria for Anorexia Nervosa A person must meet all of the current DSM criteria to be diagnosed with anorexia nervosa:

Restriction of food intake leading to weight loss or a failure to gain weight resulting in a "significantly low body weight" of what would be expected for someone's age, sex, and height.

Fear of becoming fat or gaining weight. Have a distorted view of themselves and of their condition (Examples of this might include the person thinking that they are overweight when they are actually underweight, or believing that they will gain weight from eating one single meal. A person with anorexia might also not believe there is a problem with being at a low body weight; these thoughts are known to professionals as "distortions.")

The DSM-5 also allows professionals to specify subcategories of anorexia nervosa:5

Restricting type: This is a subtype typically associated with the stereotypical view of anorexia nervosa. The person does not regularly engage in binge eating.​

Binge-eating/purging type: The person regularly engages in binge eating and purging behaviors, such as self-induced vomiting and/or the misuse of laxatives or diuretics. The binge eating/purging subtype is similar to bulimia nervosa, however, there is no weight-loss criterion for bulimia nervosa. As in previous editions of the DSM, anorexia nervosa "trumps" bulimia nervosa, meaning that if a person meets criteria for both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, then anorexia nervosa (binge-eating/purging type) is diagnosed.

I'm anorexic too!

Do NOT interrupt my JOY! You are EXHAUSTING!

“The low weight criterion was revised to allow more subjectivity and clinical judgment.”

Amenorrhea was also removed from the list, otherwise men wouldn’t be diagnosed with anorexia.

R13 It's literally the first criteria on the list:

"Restriction of food intake leading to weight loss or a failure to gain weight resulting in a "significantly low body weight" of what would be expected for someone's age, sex, and height."

It says there's no weight loss criterion for bulimia nervosa, not for anorexia. Which means if you're binging/purging, you're only a binge/purge type anorexic if your bing/purge behavior is resulting in a significantly low body weight.

R14 and R16 I looked at my copy. The first criteria is "persistent restriction of energy intake leading to significantly low body weight."

The subtypes must also fit within the criteria. The binge eating type must also have a "low body weight."

R18 right, this is what I'm saying. So what's all this business about body weight no longer being included in the DSM-5 criteria. It very clearly is.

Who's leading this bitch to believe her body weight is "significantly low"?

I'm worried I'll waste away to nothing!

But I am seizing control of my narrative! I am the author of the dictionary that defines me!

R17 Bulimics are just considered gross and don't get the attention that anorexics gets, so the types like Tess here would never claim that.

I don't think she has bulimic either. I think she's a garden variety binge eater and is using claims of "anorexia" to shield herself from criticism about being obese.

If she’s anorexic, then I declare bankruptcy!!!

I mean bulimia, not bulimic

She is "anorexic" for attention. I thought this grotesque trailer park trash had disappeared.

R21 150%

This HAES bullshit makes me fucking wheeze with rage--even more than the "non-binaries".

She seems THRILLED to be getting attention for BED, her "SHINE?" WTAF? Sounds like a narcissist.

We're normalizing men in dresses and obesity, it's a really sad state of affairs.

R27 is committing LITERAL VIOLENCE!

You can be diagnosed with anorexia before you look like Karen Carpenter you dumb fucks. People can stop eating and start losing weight but appear the same, especially with the obese. Could you tell the difference between someone that weighs 350 and someone who weighs 300? If they lost that 50 pounds rapidly and fit all the other criteria, they could be diagnosed with anorexia.

But it's DL, so everyone is skinny under their caftans here.

Going from 350 to 300 rapidly is not the same as the mental illness affecting real anorexics, who will lose a significant amount of weight from an already thin body. To suggest that going from obese to slightly less obese is comparable is ludicrous.

I AM VERY VERY SPECIAL AND FRAGILE AND YOU ALL NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT FACT. AFFIRM ME. AFFIRM ME!

R29 No. No you can't. Because the qualifying criteria of anorexia nervosa according to the DSM-5 requires a significantly low body weight for the patient's age, sex, and height. Someone who used to weigh 350 lbs and now weighs 300 lbs is someone that still needs to lose another 100 lbs. A 350 lb person believing they need to lose a drastic amount of weight is not mentally ill...they're right.

She responded to naysayers claiming that it's a "technical diagnosis." Whatever that is.

She’s not anorexic she’s a graduate of the Demi Lovato “disorder of the week Club”. Bitches want attention so they go for the afflictions they know I one will question in this woke world. Tess Holliday is the polar opposite of what an anorexic is. She definitely has an eating disorder, she’s clearly unable to stop eating herself into a human elephant. She probably needed to use that to justify her losing some weight (classic Hollywood ploy , create a disorder or disease to distract from the real shit happening which is either Addiction, Cancer or Surgery) She’s most likely losing weight to ready herself for Gastric Sleeve . She know her (loaf of) Bread and (pound of) Butter is her Fat loving Fans so she can’t let them think she’s done with being Obese or she’ll lose her following (money) so she needs to conjure up something else .

I mean if she wants to call herself anorexic let her have it.

R4 i was joking. Anybody claims to identify as something nowadays and nobody is allowed to question them or else they will accuse you of rejecting “my truth” and all “victims need to be believed”.

r34 Yep. She was pansexual/ queer while with her pansexual fat chaser husband. She has a million other issues and sex abuse stuff. She jumped on METOO etc. She is just an attention whore.

Even if she were anorexic which I doubt why would she share this with Twitter instead of a trained professional?

OMG, she's practically wasting away. Someone please make her sandwich!

I smell feet, no, ass and pussy in r39’s pic.

How does she wipe?

I don't give a shit what she looks like or who finds her body sexy. But the Tess Hollidays and Lizzos (like all leaders of the HAES movement) are snake oil salesman--as reprehensible as people who convince cancer patients to forego chemo and radiation in favor of whatever mishigas diet program or salve they're peddling . They are selling a fatal lie to impressionable and easily exploitable young women who are just desperate for validation and acceptance and raking in money for it. Years ago, the only way women like Holliday were able to capitalize on their obesity was via low rent fetish modeling and feeder forums, but once they realized how much more money there was in the self-help/women's empowerment/influencer market they seized the opportunity. And they're laughing their way to the bank as the bodies pile up.

Ok - just because you starve yourself after gorging doesn't mean you're anorexic.

Skipping lunch is not anorexic.

I'm tired of being forced to accept other people's realities that so clearly conflict with what I see with my own mothafucking eyes. Add this one to the list.

I declined that fifth slice of pizza I usually have. I am anorexic.

Well if she is anorexic she has clearly well and truly beaten it a long time ago like this guy

I’m not sure if Tess is telling the truth or just looking for clicks. But I think it’s common to be anorexic & bulimia concurrently. Wasn’t Karen carpenter both?

R45 Does Tess Holliday look anything like Karen Carpenter to you?

Yes, most anorexics "binge" and purge at some point (it's next to impossible to be a gold star anorexic for very long). But their binges look nothing like a binge eater or bulimic's typical binge, which can be as high as 10,000 calories in a single sitting, and 20,000 calories in an 8-hour period. An anorectic binge is generally no more than 500-1,000 calories (and usually far fewer), and it would be immediately purged, followed by grueling exercise regimes and days of punishing restriction, which means their "binges" will effectively result in more weight loss than had they never binged at all. Whereas a bulimic's binges are typically far too large and last too long to ever completely be eliminated via purging, which is why even the most dedicated bulimics rarely become thin enough to raise alarm, and some even gain weight. Binge eaters, of course, never eliminate any of the calories taken in during their binges and so only become larger and larger. They may occasionally attempt to punish themselves with a day of restrictive eating, but few can make it longer than that because like bulimics, binges are their only mechanism for numbing pain. Tess is without question, of this ilk.

I was a severe bulimic (2-8 purges a day on average) for over 17 years and my sister was (and still is) a binge/purge anorexic. We were both in and out of hospitals and out-patient programs for much of our high school and college years and individual therapy for years after. I know what anorexia looks like, and I guarantee you that Tess Holliday is NO recognized iteration of it. She appears to be a classic binge eater. Perhaps she was an anorexic for a short time as an adolescent or young teen but there is no recognizably anorectic behavior patterns in her current eating disorder. My mother was a binge/purge anorexic all throughout her teens and 20's and eventually became a pure binge eater in her 50's and 60's (and is now about 70 lbs overweight), so that does happen. But it would be laughable, and frankly delusional, for my mom to still categorize herself as an anorexic.

Tess is fucking crazy as well as dangerously fat.

She gives anorexia a bad name.

Anorexics perceive themselves as fat despite being very thin, if not skeletal. Their food restriction is about control, not necessarily weight.

I wonder why she feels the need to lie about *which* eating disorder she has. Is anorexia considered the chic one?

R46 very well said. Thanks for sharing your story, can’t be easy for you.

When he was a teen, my cousin starved himself to within about 3% of death, due to some sort of temporary schizophrenic episode. He was obviously self-harming, too. But all the time he declared that he was healthy, compos mentis, and did not need help. We had to have him sectioned twice and hospitalised three times over the course of 18 months before he broke down and admitted that there was a serious problem. Turned out he’d been restricting and gradually falling deeper into the disease for a few years before it became too frighteningly obvious to overlook.

You’re correct that severe anorexia is hard to miss.

[quote] it’s near-impossible to be a gold-star anorexic for very long

It is? Wow, I must be naturally gifted.

Tess Holliday is our generations Karen carpenter. I sincerely hope she gets the help she needs before she wastes away to nothing.

Tess regularly drove hours during the pandemic to buy and consume entire champagne cakes. She is incredibly stoned 24 hours a day and has constant munchies and I doubt she can puke being that stoned literally all the time.

I was just pooped!

Is today Opposite Day?

SO BRAVE. Actually I WISH I was anorexic or had the guts to be bulimic. I've gained a lot of weight during covid. I'm a nervous, stress eater and drinker. I"ll even eat ASS during this and I hate eating ass. Throw some hot sauce or sugar rim a twat, I'd probably eat that too - especially if I could rinse it down with a martini.

Tess is coming out with a new fragrance this year.

Top notes will be buttercream frosting, cheez whiz and shit.

Middle notes crisco, dirty feet, bean burritos and gunt roll

Bottom notes will be hamburger pussy mayonnaise and vomit

#metoo

She doesn't have anorexia, she has Binge Eating Disorder, which is an actual disorder as well. She is deluding herself. However, one is not "better" than the other. They both suck. And they both can lead to death.

she always came across super fake to me.

She's a fat fuck. You don't need to run through any medical journal to know it. She is. Yes, there are some people who are just destined to be fat. Fine.

What we are seeing in this day and age is not just anything. There is something going on that doesn't need to be labeled. Anyone who with eyes that existed before the 90s knows there has been a dramatic change in average weight. What it is, what is causing it, is anyone's guess. Yes, overeating is a thing, but there has to be something else going on.

I have important medical news to share: I have just been diagnosed as severely, chronically, irreparably anorexic. This is a devastating moment for me, so please understand if I am away from my social media for several minutes.

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She must be joking, right? I only wish I had as big of a bowel movement she must have everyday from all that junk food she puts down her hole. I’d save so much money on laxatives if I did!

She’s a failure.

R62 on a serious tip, my theory is that it’s plastics in the food chain. That, or soy lecithins in most store-bought food.

Not excusing the deathfat compulsive eaters, but janky is up when even people who restrict and exercise look significantly bigger than those who did the same decades before...

She must be so stupid to spout this off without consulting the diagnostic criteria. Makes her look like a fool, which she is..

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I can hit up multiple drive-thrus in 2 hours, that's why, R69.

Junk food has become an everyday option rather than a treat type scenario. Also processed food like sauces are packed full of sugar and crap and they are often seen as the easy option when cooking, rather than making everything with fresh vegetables. I can't speak to price, as I'm not in the USA, but all the thin people I know cook from scratch with fresh produce and most of the fat people I know don't take the time or have the motivation to cook properly and eat lots of junk and processed food as a result.

Just watch “My 600 Lb Life,” masses of fast food is all they eat.

Join the club, Tess. My anorexia leaves me completely exhausted.

Her social media is full of her food gorging. Like Rescue Chick said-driving multiple times just for cake. She made one trip the Madonna Inn just for cake fairly recently. She also showed off her freezer stuffed full of that Jeni's ice cream.

And let me guess, she and and all of her followers are environmentalists, and shake their meaty fists at the others that should do something about global warming caused by capitalism... Oh, except that type of consumerism... The type that requires more food to fill their fat maws, the type that requires reinforced and extra wide seating, which requires more materials, more man hours, more money, and on and on all to accommodate their extra special and fierce bodies. But everyone else is the problem. Yeah. Keep shaking your fat fists, bitches.

So now that she's learning to love herself and to giver herself to become a glutton, I guess the next press release will be when a JCB is removing her from her house to take her to hospital for gastric banding.

I just looked at her Instagram. I don't understand at all.

WHERE is she anorexic? She isn't. She's grossly obese and the size of a house.

R72 that shows exhausts me to even watch for a minute. It must take a special kind of obsessive zombified self-loathing stamina to eat that much every day. My depression makes me so tired that I sometimes struggle to choke down a sandwich.

Anorexic??

Honey, it ain't a'workin'!

Anorexic? That COW?! I think not.

I think she means anoxic

I think the article meant POLLY Holliday was anorexic

Some sham-ster is deluding her that she is anorexic. it's not the same as binge eating disorder (BED). he/she should be ousted because the shit they are espousing to her is dangerous. BED is far different than anorexia treatment.

Either that, or that's just what she is telling herself. and in that case, i would say she needs to make peace with being huge, deal with her actual eating disorder or do some therapy around her real disorder.

What’s a champagne cake? That sounds delicious.