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dosser said. “So many
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tay a little longer.”
Julie Le, a junior speed)
at ion major, said her
hanged her life last Minima
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nee. "The summer was soil
helped shape future plans
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law. She encourages sit]
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I e said her internshipeA> Battalion
t to pursue a career in ^iJ]^j C0 | e was j n school when
pressure to be beautiful and pop-
, . u«.r first began to take its dire toll. In
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“The congressmen oftbeff and Vouge being normal is just
xas are willing to tokeA. J 01 § ood ei } ou £ h -
•ay ” Rosser said P ul l ' lc pressure on myself. I
US. Congressman Kevirl s very involved in athletics, and
Fexas, has had internsfmj 11 1 ^ot injured;' Nicole said. "I
J has been very' pleased. I work out ' and 1 be g an t0
"It is all good,” Brady said tain weight. 1 slowly stopped eating,
ns we get through A&Mrlim a perfectionist — very critical
s up here. They really m af myself. I thought that if I gained
nation to my oflice.” weight, people would talk negative-
Brady said internships I about me. My appearance is very
PPIP are good for Ai.\l||portant. I felt it was the only thing
dents. ■ life I could control. v
“It gives them a chanceto« The current Texas A&M student
ngress works from the in Jio wishes to be known only as
l. 'It is a win-win situation ^ j C ole“ is a survivor of anorexia.
Rosser said she is taking* p) r ^ nn R ee( j an associate med-
!t) ashington. D.( i feal director for the A.P. Beutel Stu-
ish moie contuds. Health Center, said statistics
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domic B U ildingoftS.F c ? nto J fthosewhosufferfro,neat -
pro'’ram ' Wg disorders are women.
)r Carol Albrecht in# said 80 percent of anorexics
rdinator for the Derf' L elo P the d ] seas ? wilhi " ^ 10
iology and a sociolog. J#' y ears at , ter Ihe onset of their
a common problemar# 51 rae " st ™ al with the ma-
S is that thev set a ds # nt y ol sufferers being high school
into a job " ^ ni - 1 college students. Each semester,
he sociology departm4 man y students are forced to face a
1 started about two year# ockin § reallt y about a tnend who
ilaced students in a vanti? s" 11 ? 1 )' dying to be thin,
hips. The sociology iniff Nlcole sa >d pressure from society
esigned to motivate stief rove her t0 starve herself, beginning
late school and prepare ^hh her high school society where
e job market throughpro;*>oks were deemed very important.
1 experience and netratef She said that when people told
’ve found that netwtaler she was skinny, it only made the
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people liked her more because she
was thin.
“My nickname in high school was
‘bulimic chick ? ’ ” she said. “It was a
joke, but nobody realized that I did
have an eating disorder. I had my
problem long before my nickname
came about.
“My friends saw that I was getting
skinny, but they did not realize how
66 My appearance
is very important.
I felt it was the
only thing in life I
could control”
— Nicole
Former anorexic
serious my problems were. One day,
I fainted, but I was lucky. I started
reading books on eating disorders,
and I finally admitted to myself that
I had a problem.”
Nicole said her friends were a ma
jor source of support during her bat
tle with anorexia. While she still feels
pressure not to eat, she tries not to
give in to it. She said watching her
friends battle their own eating disor
ders has helped keep her on track.
“It’s hard. It’s always in the back
of my mind,” Nicole said. “My ap
pearance is important, but I need to
remember that starving myself is not
the way to look good.”
Rhonda Rahn, a nutrition health
educator at Beutel, said there are
many different types of people with
eating disorders. Some sufferers are
perfectionists. Others are “people
pleasers” who feel it is important for
everyone to like them.
In life, a person is bombarded
with millions of images from the me
dia. Magazines show models, televi
sion stations run advertisements and
movies show actors and actresses liv
ing the happy life — smiling, happy,
rich and skinny.
Many believe that the images a
woman receives from a young age
regarding what is attractive and what
is not leave a woman believing she
should resemble the pictures of
emancipated models lounging
around in string bikinis.
Dr. Mary Ann Covey, a coun
selor with the Student Counseling
Service, said that the influence of
media upon society is sometimes
misconstrued.
“Women are raised with con
fusing images. They are raised to
look at pre-pubescent, air-
brushed models,” Covey said.
“We model ourselves after peo
ple whose job it is to look good.
I loved this quote by Madon
na. ... She said on being a role
model, ‘Tm not a role model,
you pay me to do this.’ ”
Covey said the media is
not responsible for someone’s
having an eating disorder. The
media does not tell someone
not to eat or to throw up; how
ever, it does influence women’s
negative images of their bodies.
Rahn said bulimia is the most
common eating disorder. Howev
er, it is difficult to diagnose because
bulimics often do not have the stereo
typical warning sign of the disease, a
skeletal appearance, because some
nutrients can remain in a person’s
See Anorexic on Page 10.
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