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But I hope, to sound pious about it, that these are children who will eat quite normally as teenagers and adults. They certainly eat a lot, but they don’t eat crap. I’m not skinny (especially since they were born...) and I have never been on a diet. Ten stone and five foot six. My husband isn’t thin either and we both love food. Basically, food and eating aren’t big topics for discussion in our house. We cook it. Well, let’s face it, I cook it. And we eat it. No chance of them being anorexic because of my obsession with being thin.
Or is there? You see so many parents on Trisha and Kilroy saying they have no idea why their child suddenly became fixated on food - eating it, not eating it, throwing it up. One gets the impression that it’s all to do with insecurity and self-image, but the parents are quite convincing on the subject of their children’s former stability and general joy.
It’s hard in a media culture of emaciation - doesn’t Jennifer Anniston look better now she is painfully thin? Well, no. She looks sort of glossier and less real and a lot less sexy and happy. But it must be possible to make children, especially girls, aware of the truth. And the truth is that people look better when they’re not thin. Also, and this we already know, when they’re not fat.
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