From someone who didn’t grow up with social media (43 years old) and only saw models in magazines. Which I didn’t really buy when I was younger. I feel social media has changed how woman and even men feel about their body imagine and looks. So much photoshopping and filters who know whats real anymore. If someone does post a real photo they and now called fat or ugly. I personally think if you suffer from ED or self confidence you really should stay away from all social media.
It’s all fake and isn’t good if you have mental health. I bet if Anna just focus on her family and stopped looking at social media for a month.. even a week she would feel a lot better.
i would disagree to a certain extent, an eating disorder might be triggered by the media or social media, it can make it so much more difficult to fight your illness when you’re bombarded with images of stick thin models etc, and I personally feel like recovery, whilst being in the public eye with everyone commenting on your weight will never happen, but it’s rare it’s the real reason it’s started or continued.
I have no love for Anna, but I feel a certain sympathy for her when it comes to her illness, it must be fucking torture having strangers comment on the one thing that consumes you daily.
but if there wasn’t social media there would be another reason for her to restrict or binge or purge, there’s always an excuse, her last upload is the first time I’ve seen her call out her own bull shit so that’s a positive,
But I believe in the next 6/12 months she’ll be back in the grips of some kind of disordered eating, I don’t think she’s made much of an improvement in that respect so I can’t give her to much credit yet.
I just hope she can make the choice soon, what’s more important, her kids, her YouTube presence or his illness,
but she can’t juggle all three.
Her recovery will never happen while she’s online, but without recovery she will damage her kids, not intentionally but she will, that’s a fact
![Woman shrugging :woman_shrugging: 🤷♀️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/joypixels/emoji-assets@5.0/png/64/1f937-2640.png)
So what gives.
keeping all 3 balls in the air the outcome will be Anna, living with her illness, influencing her audience and damaging her kids. The only one that wins is Anna.