How on earth can you say 'possible organ failure' is irrelevant?
We can't judge the models in terms of whether they're anorexic or not. That happens in the head, after all, and then translates into real life practices. But think of some of the danger signals and ask whether you think you these models do these things:
- not eating
- eating non-food items
- cutting food very small, playing with it, moving around on the plate and generally...
- trying to appear if you're eating when you're not
- avoiding eating but cooking lavish and complex food for other people
- obsessive calorie counting
- obsessive exercise
- competitive thinness with other very thin women (in RL or online)
- skewed judgements about their own body, and what is a healthy weight
Do you think the first woman in the catalogue can manage to be as thin as she is without some of these things?
I think the pro-ana movement has a lot to answer for. It defends extreme thinness without doing so explicitly, and is supported in doing so by our culture (which after all lauds 'free choice' and individualism). The points MoM made about the 'lifestyle' choice of extreme thinness being somehow different from the 'illness' shows she is somehow embroiled in it all perhaps.
Pro-ana rather insidiously attempts to legitimise 'living on the edge' and encourages women to develop ways of being extremely thin safely. They fail when they succumb to illness, but even that is portrayed as society somehow 'misunderstanding them', just like sick anorexics for years have done. They try further to legitimise this with another version of 'hey, fat is bad too: who are you to judge' and 'you're just jealous you fat cows'.
Don't be disingenuous with the pro-ana nonsense, even if you don't (yet) recognise it as such. Get a therapist instead. Women, grown married women with children, and young girls, die of anorexia, as well as ruining their fertility and other aspects of their health, permanently.