🤝 Community Pro-Ana - "I need to lose 20 more pounds or I'll never be pretty!"

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One thing that I wonder about Pro-Anas, is that do they have either envy or desire, to either be in or wish their country were instead like the ones where starvation has happened or is common place, i.e. Venezuela, Zimbabwe, or North Korea? Or maybe some of them even use joke terms of their countries for their "diets", i.e. "The Venezuelan diet", and even praising those countries for having low obesity rates?
not that i know of, but there's probably ones out there who do. but a LOT of anachans online are super catty and would rather live in a country where they can be praised for being beautiful and skinny among all the fat, greasy, (etc etc whatever they write) people.
they're not going to be special and gorgeous if everyone around them is emaciated too.
 
One thing that I wonder about Pro-Anas, is that do they have either envy or desire, to either be in or wish their country were instead like the ones where starvation has happened or is common place, i.e. Venezuela, Zimbabwe, or North Korea? Or maybe some of them even use joke terms of their countries for their "diets", i.e. "The Venezuelan diet", and even praising those countries for having low obesity rates?

Interesting idea, but my theory is that if that was the case, it would no longer be 'special' to be anorexic if everyone was experiencing starvation due to famine. I have always wondered myself if anorexia emerges more in countries with high obesity rates as fear of getting fat seems to be a huge factor with anorexia.
 
Interesting idea, but my theory is that if that was the case, it would no longer be 'special' to be anorexic if everyone was experiencing starvation due to famine. I have always wondered myself if anorexia emerges more in countries with high obesity rates as fear of getting fat seems to be a huge factor with anorexia.
What's South Korea like for obesity? by sounds, diet culture is rife in that country, fat-shaming hideously common amongst idols. And by sounds from what I've read they're not really open about eating disorders, negative behaviours are more normalized than seen as a disorder. Could be wrong as i have no experience of that culture, just what I've read online.
 
What's South Korea like for obesity? by sounds, diet culture is rife in that country, fat-shaming hideously common amongst idols. And by sounds from what I've read they're not really open about eating disorders, negative behaviours are more normalized than seen as a disorder. Could be wrong as i have no experience of that culture, just what I've read online.

According to Google 4% of the adult population in South Korea are obese (compare with 42% in the USA) and 30% are overweight (including obese). Eating disorders are crazy common over there though, and I wonder if it has anything to do with rigorous work ethics and hours, high living costs and the strict importance of being attractive (especially for women). If I remember correctly, forms for prospective employment must include a picture of your face and you are less likely to get hired if you are unattractive. Add this to the fact that SK has the highest rate of plastic surgery in the entire world and you begin to see how such enforced beauty ideals can lead to a large amount of anorexics. Just my two cents and a very good point to bring up.
 
According to Google 4% of the adult population in South Korea are obese (compare with 42% in the USA) and 30% are overweight (including obese). Eating disorders are crazy common over there though, and I wonder if it has anything to do with rigorous work ethics and hours, high living costs and the strict importance of being attractive (especially for women). If I remember correctly, forms for prospective employment must include a picture of your face and you are less likely to get hired if you are unattractive. Add this to the fact that SK has the highest rate of plastic surgery in the entire world and you begin to see how such enforced beauty ideals can lead to a large amount of anorexics. Just my two cents and a very good point to bring up.
South Korea, especially Gangnam and Seoul are very appearance heavy with a lot of plastic surgery tourism going on. It's pretty common over there as well for parents to pay to give their daughters double eyelid surgery or have their chins shaved down before they enter college.
That is also where Venus Angelic got her illegal weight loss surgery when she was already underweight.
 
According to Google 4% of the adult population in South Korea are obese (compare with 42% in the USA) and 30% are overweight (including obese). Eating disorders are crazy common over there though, and I wonder if it has anything to do with rigorous work ethics and hours, high living costs and the strict importance of being attractive (especially for women). If I remember correctly, forms for prospective employment must include a picture of your face and you are less likely to get hired if you are unattractive. Add this to the fact that SK has the highest rate of plastic surgery in the entire world and you begin to see how such enforced beauty ideals can lead to a large amount of anorexics. Just my two cents and a very good point to bring up.
Don't forget that more and more Korean girls are getting plastic surgery on their vaginas (labiaplasty)
 
Surprised this thread isn't more used now due to the prevalence of ED twitter, especially as there's a lot of overlap with kpop and anime fans. Even though it's mainly full of minors, there's a lot of stuff to laugh at.
 
Surprised this thread isn't more used now due to the prevalence of ED twitter, especially as there's a lot of overlap with kpop and anime fans. Even though it's mainly full of minors, there's a lot of stuff to laugh at.

Obese people, i.e. the ones on My 600 Pound Life, provide much more stuff to laugh at sadly. I don't recall Pro-Ana people being notable sources of laughs, in comparison.
 
Obese people, i.e. the ones on My 600 Pound Life, provide much more stuff to laugh at sadly. I don't recall Pro-Ana people being notable sources of laughs, in comparison.
My friend’s grandma chain smokes while hooked on amphetamines. She once called me a heifer while I put away her laundry, it made me laugh. She’s around 5’0” looks about 72 lbs. She’s a lot like Eugenia she doesn’t acknowledge anorexia or her eating habits. The funniest anorexics are probably the deniers because some of the shit Eugenia says or does are so daft they’re worth the giggles and memes. I’m not pro Ana but that community is funnier than the HAES FAs.
 
My friend’s grandma chain smokes while hooked on amphetamines. She once called me a heifer while I put away her laundry, it made me laugh. She’s around 5’0” looks about 72 lbs. She’s a lot like Eugenia she doesn’t acknowledge anorexia or her eating habits. The funniest anorexics are probably the deniers because some of the shit Eugenia says or does are so daft they’re worth the giggles and memes. I’m not pro Ana but that community is funnier than the HAES FAs.
I don't follow Eugenia closely, but is she really in denial of her ED? She definitely denied it publically for a really long time, but most anorexics do. The ones who want to keep at it, at least.

Maybe she didn't realize that what she was dealing with was an eating disorder at first, but she definitely knew a lot longer than she acknowledged. Once you get to a certain point, you know you have a problem.
 
I don't follow Eugenia closely, but is she really in denial of her ED? She definitely denied it publically for a really long time, but most anorexics do. The ones who want to keep at it, at least.

Maybe she didn't realize that what she was dealing with was an eating disorder at first, but she definitely knew a lot longer than she acknowledged. Once you get to a certain point, you know you have a problem.
Well lucky you’ve met me, If I miss her streams at work or school I’ll actually watch them even though they’re not live, her life is strange. I said denial meaning she knows but she doesn’t take her health seriously. Past Shane Dawson she didn’t follow through with recovery. When she took a break and came back she didn’t discuss recovery while streaming. People monetizing their moral fagging about her with no regard to her psychological reaction and the enabling from her family would cause her to double down on her illness. Her family is very hands off if they’re verbally abusive or manipulative with her, her streams don’t reflect it so I imagine she ignores her illness like they do. Her lifestyle and routine even in the streams are hardwired and predictable can’t imagine after years she’d realize: “Oh gosh, I’m not good”. Eugenia genuinely emerges in small bursts she mentions small parts of her life non confrontationally because nobody that watches her genuinely cares about her health she’s a lot like a toy/makeup channel where trolls interact. Saying she’s daft probably sounds like I hate her, but I’ve never trolled her. She’s daft and funny moving all over: body checking, showcasing hot topic merch, new makeovers, all while garnering more insulting super chats but she usually apologizes/vaguely interprets it, agrees , or laughs. When a troll super chat baits her with an even tempered ED remark she’ll engage. I’ve seen her positively react to super chats about fasting, “not eating”, weighing less, jogging 1.5 hours. The way she goes: “Oh my gosh yayyyyy thank you so much” to that stuff is like a bit that doesn’t get old. Even if she doesn’t react scornfully she’s entertaining compared to most lolcows.
 
One thing that I wonder about Pro-Anas, is that do they have either envy or desire, to either be in or wish their country were instead like the ones where starvation has happened or is common place, i.e. Venezuela, Zimbabwe, or North Korea? Or maybe some of them even use joke terms of their countries for their "diets", i.e. "The Venezuelan diet", and even praising those countries for having low obesity rates?
I know this is really late, but I can contribute a little to this conversation if anyone still cares about it.
Years ago I used to browse the site myproana for my morbid curiosity. It was before I knew sites like the farms existed, so screenshots unfortunately didn't occur to me.

That said, I can remember a thread about this subject. It was titled something like 'Would you want to live in Ethiopia or a 3rd world country to help you starve yourself?'

Like already mentioned here, many of them said it would kill the competitiveness/point of it for them. I remember a few Americans specifically saying they like their fat country because it makes their "willpower" that much more 'impressive', the size difference more pronounced, etc.

Some did say yes, and the reasons were pretty varied. A lot of teens griping about how they wish they could be in a starving country so their parents couldn't yell at them for not eating. Some were so disgusted by fat they wanted to be in a country free of it, or that it felt 'cleaner'. The most common reason seemed to be that if they were in a 3rd world country, they would not have access to food so it would be much easier to starve. I'm guessing these were the fatty patties who can only put down the donut if someone physically ripped it from their hands and strapped them down when they tried to run after it.

I believe it was in that thread that someone shared an article that discussed eating disorders in these countries. I'm going to try to find it, because if I remember correctly the article even mentioned that bulimia has been documented.

This conversation would come up every so often among other threads. Korean and other skinny Asian countries were of course the dream for most of them, both for the skinny goalz crap and because a lot of them want plastic surgery too. There were discussions on Indian, Korean and Ethiopian diets because people wanted to use them to starve themselves. Every so often that chart of average BMI for every country would be posted and the thread would usually be people wishing they lived in X starving country so they could be smol or lamenting at how they would be considered obese in it.
 
I know this is really late, but I can contribute a little to this conversation if anyone still cares about it.
Years ago I used to browse the site myproana for my morbid curiosity. It was before I knew sites like the farms existed, so screenshots unfortunately didn't occur to me.

That said, I can remember a thread about this subject. It was titled something like 'Would you want to live in Ethiopia or a 3rd world country to help you starve yourself?'

Like already mentioned here, many of them said it would kill the competitiveness/point of it for them. I remember a few Americans specifically saying they like their fat country because it makes their "willpower" that much more 'impressive', the size difference more pronounced, etc.

Some did say yes, and the reasons were pretty varied. A lot of teens griping about how they wish they could be in a starving country so their parents couldn't yell at them for not eating. Some were so disgusted by fat they wanted to be in a country free of it, or that it felt 'cleaner'. The most common reason seemed to be that if they were in a 3rd world country, they would not have access to food so it would be much easier to starve. I'm guessing these were the fatty patties who can only put down the donut if someone physically ripped it from their hands and strapped them down when they tried to run after it.

I believe it was in that thread that someone shared an article that discussed eating disorders in these countries. I'm going to try to find it, because if I remember correctly the article even mentioned that bulimia has been documented.

This conversation would come up every so often among other threads. Korean and other skinny Asian countries were of course the dream for most of them, both for the skinny goalz crap and because a lot of them want plastic surgery too. There were discussions on Indian, Korean and Ethiopian diets because people wanted to use them to starve themselves. Every so often that chart of average BMI for every country would be posted and the thread would usually be people wishing they lived in X starving country so they could be smol or lamenting at how they would be considered obese in it.

About that comment, they mentioned Ethiopia as the example starving third world country. I assume that the said topic was started before Venezuela's economy went completely down the toilet? Also, the Korea example sounds like it could refer to either North or South, because of history of famines in the North, and the excessive strive for vanity to the point of doing unhealthy things in the South.
 
South Korea, especially Gangnam and Seoul are very appearance heavy with a lot of plastic surgery tourism going on. It's pretty common over there as well for parents to pay to give their daughters double eyelid surgery or have their chins shaved down before they enter college.
That is also where Venus Angelic got her illegal weight loss surgery when she was already underweight.
Reminds me of a case where a law was proposed because a man gorged on chicken and beer to get too fat for military service. Apparently that kind of behavior is treated as dodging the draft.
 
Who are anachans more vicious towards, fat ppl or ppl who are naturally thin/have small frames but no ed? I feel like normal skinny people cop a lot of shit from ed harpies because they dared to be THIN while also EATING FRIED FOOD

edit: now taht I think about it, I mean it's more in the sense that a naturally skinny girl is more likely to be called a fat cow than an actually chubby girl, if they're both eating the same thing
 
Reminds me of a case where a law was proposed because a man gorged on chicken and beer to get too fat for military service. Apparently that kind of behavior is treated as dodging the draft.

Would that law also cover the opposite, a man becomes anorexic, in order to be too thin for military service? Although I'm not sure how effective that would be, given how eating disorders are way less common in males compared to females.
 
I found this ana chan on Tumblr.
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I had never seen an ana chan with a big butt. Interesting.
 
I found this ana chan on Tumblr.
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I had never seen an ana chan with a big butt. Interesting.
Huh, I've never seen an ana-chan want a big butt either? My brief exposure to skelly-land told me many of them scorn female curves.

Maybe this as thinspo reveals some dichotomy between the skelemtins who are already proper bags of bones just trying to complete their metamorphosis into human jerky, and the normal to fat self hating girls with truly unhinged perceptions of beauty standards. I dont know what's going on in that photo; could be ED, could be shoops, and/or plastic surgery. But there's definitely anorexics who look at that and go "lolfat".
 
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