![]() Mercifully, there are also resources by and for parents as well as several well-established r esidential programs for treatment. Anorexia evangelists - and yes, they’re out there - promote their cause on “pro-ana” websites offering tips on fooling your parents and your doctors and your friends. ![]() (Odder still, the average waist size of a real American man in 2006 was 39.7 inches.) Not surprisingly, eating disorders - classically the purview of the teenage girl - are significantly on the rise for men.īut the really scary part of the real skinny lies in its mind-bending advocacy efforts. ![]() A recent story in New York magazine revealed the shifting norms in body image for men as indicated by mannequins: in 1967, a male mannequin sported a 33 inch waist, whereas this year’s standard “homme nouveau” clocks in at only 27 inches. (Think Nan Kempner and Gloria Vanderbilt, for starters.) Yet while it’s fair to say that women bear the brunt of this fixation, it’s no longer a gendered issue. The phrase, “You Can’t be Too Rich or Too Thin” has been attributed to everyone from Babe Paley to the Dutchess of Windsor, and has come to be personified by a kind of ultra-slender American socialite. Of course, yearning to be skinny is hardly a new obsession. ![]()
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