Yesterday we talked about E!’s Giuliana Rancic addressing the criticism that she’s too thin. Giuliana blamed her tiny frame on medication she’s taking to keep her cancer at bay. (She suffered breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy in 2011.) She also claimed that she eats “a very robust, healthy, balanced diet and dessert almost every night” and that she eats “more than any of my friends.” As I mentioned in that story, Giuliana has expressed a preoccupation with diet and fitness in the past. While many people have great sympathy for her as a cancer survivor, it’s hard to accept her explanation for why she can’t gain weight.
People is parceling out more stories with Giuliana because she’s promoting her new memoir, Going Off Script: How I Survived a Crazy Childhood, Cancer, and Clooney’s 32 On-Screen Rejections. (Is she including the tequila incident in those 32 rejections?) In a new article, she discusses her childhood battle with scoliosis and how it left her feeling inadequate, unattractive and preoccupied with her appearance.
The E! personality, 40, reveals in her new book, Going Off Script that for over a decade she suffered from scoliosis, a curvature of the spine that if untreated can lead to permanent deformity.
“The thing about scoliosis is it’s a different kind of ugly for a young girl,” says Rancic, who was diagnosed at 13. “It’s one thing to hate your hair or to have bad skin, but those are things you can hopefully treat. [Scoliosis] is very hard to camouflage and it’s all you think about all day, every minute of the day.”
Because of the severity of her curve, one of Rancic’s hips was inches higher than the other. “I always wore baggy clothes,” she says. “And I trained myself so I always looked like I was leaning on something.”
The memories are still difficult to recall for the mom of Duke, 2, (with husband Bill. “[As a teen] I tried to enter pageants and audition for movies and model, because I think I was hoping someday someone would tell me I was pretty. I just wasn’t. I was crooked.”
Corrective surgery at 21 straightened Rancic’s spine, but left her with a permanent scar and markedly “bony” shoulder blades, which were the focus of a heated weight debate when she wore a strapless dress at the Golden Globes in January.
“That was very hurtful to me because it was the first huge backlash about my weight,” Rancic explains. “And the thing is I’ve lived with my back and the way it looks since I was a little girl. My shoulder blades protrude as a result of scoliosis. Even if I gained 20 pounds, my bones would still look the way they do.”
But despite all the criticism, Rancic sees a positive outcome from her years of heartache. “I was called ugly my entire life but it made me who I am,” she says. “I always tell girls, whatever struggles you go through as a young woman, those are the things that become your power later. Even though it’s painful to think back on, I wouldn’t change a thing. Because everything I went through as a child got me to where I am today.”
This story from Giuliana is very similar to what she said yesterday: that her low weight is due to a health problem, that she can’t help it, and that people are being unfair to point out that she looks severely underweight. (Of course I’m paraphrasing.) I feel for her for having gone through scoliosis. That sounds awful, and must have been so difficult to endure during adolescence. It sounds like it affected her self image so negatively during a key time in her youth.
I also think Giuliana is incorrect in claiming that even if she gained 20 pounds, her bones would still look that way. If you look at older pictures of her, that’s not the case. She looks much different in older photos. Maybe she’s just referring to her shoulder bones though. I do hope she’s ok and that she can gain weight to get her health back on track. Yesterday she seemed to indicate that this would be a priority for her.
This is Giuliana in 2009. Note that this was before she started undergoing fertility treatments.
Photo credit: WENN.com and Getty Images
Utter BS
This is getting really uncomfortable and sad. Someone intervene.
So incredibly uncomfortable.
This is so classic: deflect, blame it on something else, shame the people who are concerned, roll out the pity party…
+1 I think all this story does is perhaps give us a source/starting point to her self esteem or body issues. From there, she had the horrible luck to get cancer, and along the way, body issues intermingled. I feel very sorry for her. She really has dealt with terrible things.
I wonder if she had an estrogen sensitive tumor, in which she might believe that weight gain can increase chances of a recurrence as fat tissue can be a source of estrogen (if she’s in menopause). That could be another trigger.
Agree. People don’t buy it.
I wonder why she usually wears clothing that shows off the very area that looks the worst…the back, shoulders, and arms? She wears revealing gowns and poses on the red carpet like she really thinks it looks great. And, yes, she is making way too many excuses. When she wore the black jumpsuit (at the Globes?) that really showed the scary shape of her body, you could tell she thought it looked sexy.
And it’s irritating BS, doesn’t she see this? She should fire her publicist, she’s getting very bad advice.
This!… Is not just BS people can see through Is kinda insulting and if she paid money to get this kind of press roll out she needs her money back, I’ll say it again Her Bosses and Family need to make her next contracts contingent upon treat
She has always positioned herself as a victim instead of acknowledging the consequences of her decisions. The fertility doctor asked her to gain ten pounds; she refused. That led to fruitless attempts at IVF. Because of the cancer risk, the IVF doctor would not do any more treatments until she was screened for cancer; bingo, there it was. Tamoxifen – if she is on it – often makes women GAIN weight, so the medication excuse is suspect. Now it’s scoliosis. She has history of eating cotton balls with orange juice! If she’s eating giant meals, she must be throwing them up again. I’m pretty tired of her victimitis – but she is so far gone I actually feel sorry for her.
Where did you hear the cotton balls and orange juice thing? I’ve never heard that before.
Cotton balls and orange juice?! Blech!
This woman needs help.
RE: not gaining weight for pregnancy…
I just read yesterday that she cited Victoria Beckham and Rachel Zoe as examples of extremely skinny people who got pregnant. That’s ALL I needed to hear. She needs help and her health issues have little to no impact on her weight. End of discussion.
I’m almost afraid to comment except to say DITTO, and, as someone who has scoliosis, I know B.S. on this subject when I hear it.
I have scoliosis and you are correct, she is full of it!
As someone on yesterday’s thread said, she’s changed the conversation from her very obvious ED to one where one is an automatic A****** for pointing out her ED. Nothing to see. You are all A******* for noticing her weight. And that will be the narrative until she decides to change the script again.
That is exactly what I get from this. How dare anyone comment on why her skin looks to be stretched over bone. “You don’t know what I’ve been through! Oh, and buy my book.”
Exactly what Kitten sad above. Deflect,, Blame, Shame.
This is all very sad.
Scoliosis runs in my family and none of my cousins who had it have bones sticking out of their backs. But they are all at healthy weights.
Also, as one of those cancer patients who has struggled with weight gain due to her metabolism being altered by taking tamoxifan and femara after treatment, I would love to know what drug she was prescribed that caused weight loss.
My friend had scoliosis. She also had the surgery (which gave her an extra 2 inches in height), but it did not give her sticky-outy bones.
Wow. She’s really in denial about her problem, isn’t she? She needs help.
Yeah, my friend too. She was 5’9, 125 pounds, and while she had that Gwynethesque curvature to her back, she surely did not look like she was about to take flight with her giant bones protruding from her back like a pair of wings.
**sighs** – my sister and friend BOTH had the surgery too and their shoulders are fine too. they both have 2 large scars but my sister embraces them. They both stand ramrod straight of course and can’t do yoga and will prob have to have C-sections if they ever decide to give birth but nope, their shoulders don’t stick out and they are emaciated skinny either.
Thankfully, no ongoing medication for me (I’m still avoiding osteporosis meds, just) post-cancer, but I just wanted to say STEROID BLOAT.
I spent the entire time I was on chemo like a ravening beast, my appetite was so stimulated by the steroids. I turned into an apex predator for red meat and put on at least a stone. I kept about 10lbs of it too, which was a good thing as I’d always been too skinny before.
Oh I know, Sixer! The one thing that never failed me during chemo was my appetite. Decadron made me so hungry! And kinda mean, too! Glad you’re done. Wish you well in the future!
This describes my husband exactly. When he was in chemo, he would spend the day of treatment and the day after avoiding food altogether, then the following day was RAVENOUS, specifically for steak, which he hardly ever eats normally. When I look back at pictures from that time i barely recognize him through the steroid bloat.
I got a thing for Turkish Delight also! Woe betide Mr Sixer if he hadn’t purchased sufficient.
@Sixer, steak! Before chemo, I rarely ate it. During and since, I can’t get enough!
Also, weight loss associated with cancer/chemo is cachorexia and it is a very serious and bad condition.
I would have eaten any red meat. Mr Sixer used to make huge cauldrons of beef casserole and I would just be constantly back and forth, getting another bowlful!
My mom also gained weight during chemo – all she wanted was fatty mashed potatoes (lots of cream & butter!) & we were all thrilled she wasn’t losing weight. It’s amazing how much better the drugs are now to handle the side effects of chemo.
I wore a back brace for scoliosis as a teen and I’ve never heard of bones sticking out on both sides. The curve can make people less symetrical but her shoulders are sticking out due to her pose and being underweight.
Agree. I wore a Boston brace for a couple years, and a friend wore the Milwaukee and received eStim for her scoliosis. Asymmetry is to be expected… Jutting cadaverous shoulder blades are starvation, pure and simple. I wish she could get help.
I have scoliosis & wore a Milwaukee back brace for 7 yrs. , from the age of 13-20. My dad wouldn’t let them operate on my spine. My sister has it also. (Her hips were corrected at birth so her curvature not so defined later as she grew). However, both of us still have 1 hip higher than the other. W/ my distinct curve & hump I still did pageants as a younger woman & no one judged. Myers stick out so far because of her unhealthy weight. I used to be 20lbs underweight for many yrs.. My body was so messed up from the metal & plastic brace I wore 23 hrs a day. She can come up w/ another excuse.. I don’t believe at all. No sympathy here..,
My sister has scoliosis, too, but didn’t have surgery. She does have a scapula condition where they’re called “wings,” but she’s at a normal weight so you don’t see every little detail like in Rancic’s body.
Rancic needs to get help NOW. She seems to be at the precipice and she needs to be careful not to go too far. Karen Carpenter died from complications due to anorexia after she had been treated for it; her body was so frail from the years of abuse that it just couldn’t take it anymore, even though she was treating herself right and was in recovery at that point.
That’s a dramatic difference in those pics by comparison. She doesn’t even look like the same person. I think along with Her health issues it also seems like she’s had an eating disorder too.
the face/skull especially. in the later pic in the pink strapless dress, her head looks SO skeletal, and you can see the hair thinning/loss at the front of her part. That’s why she’s now combing her hair forward to do bangs (like in the yellow dress pic). either that or it’s straight-up a wig, which is what I thought the other day.
either way, the difference is marked. and her excuses just make it more sad…I really hope someone can convince her that she’s got a problem.
Her face is what really makes me fear for her. It is like you can see her skull through her face, and it reminds me of Karen Carpenter.
I’ve never noticed her shoulder bones. What I have noticed her sunken face, thinning hair, and the fact that if she turns sideways now she all but disappears.
It’s tough to deal with the medical conditions that she has had, but I still think she ALSO is battling an ED.
Ok now this is just getting ridiculous. Tomorrow it will be “I had pinkeye once so I can’t gain weight.” Every day it’s a new health issue to garner sympathy and distract from the real problem. I’m sorry if this sounds harsh, and I did have true sympathy reading her struggles with cancer yesterday. But this is so transparent and frustrating. For her own sake, she needs to at least admit to herself what the real problem is.
Yes, sadly my first thought was “what health problem will she come mention next as a reason for her extreme thinness?’
And didn’t she say just last week she wouldn’t talk about her weight? She’s talking a lot about it.
I hope she gets the help she needs soon so she can be healthy and present for her family.
Her gardener quit so she can’t gain weight.
Her dog died when she was a kid do she can’t gain weight.
Bill leaves his socks stuffed in between the couch cushions….
Maybe on some level she is admitting to herself she has a eating disorder? Going to all this effort to respond to critics, when she could have just told people to take a flying leap off a short pier.
Hopefully she will get help if not for herself, but to be able to see her son grow up
I was kind of thinking the same thing. The fact that she’s starting to talk about it (even if her reasons are total bs) seems like a bit of a turning point. She’s entering the conversation, instead of ignoring it. Baby steps.
I thought the same thing….until she had that nice plug for her book. Now I think she’s using all the controversy as a way to garner sympathy and sell books. Sorry if I should overly cynical, I just don’t see any other reason for her about-face.
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New week,new interview,new excuse
It’s interesting that she said 20lbs. 20lbs is nothing when you’re that underweight, even when you’re as petite as she is. Her bones would still stick out if she gained 20lbs, because she’s still be significantly underweight.
When I was in the throes of anorexia I said things like that too, and the weight I’d talk about gaining was always low. 10lbs, 15lbs, 20lbs, maybe 25 when I was at my very lowest weight and feeling comfortable. Gaining what I needed to gain to be healthy, over 50lbs, was such a hideous thought I couldn’t even think about it let alone say it out loud.
Years ago, I read a book about Cherie Boone, one of Pat Boone’s daughters. She had a severe eating disorder. It was horrifying what she went through. All his daughters were beautiful girls, not sure what started her problem. They had pictures of her, looking like a war prisoner. She said she would look in the mirror and would cry, she thought she still looked fat. It is indeed a psychological disease. It took her a long time to get well.
I read that too. She told a story about emptying a doggie bag into the dog bowl after dinner with her boyfriend/fiancé. After he left, she got down on the floor and ate it – he watched her do it through a window. That’s when she got help.
She is so full of shit. Scoliosis doesn’t make you look emaciated and anorexic.
I have scoliosis. Runs in my family. I was told you couldn’t have the surgery after around the age of 14, when the spine is still malleable, not later when it becomes more brittle. Maybe that has changed now, I dunno. I’m a small-boned, skinny body type, too, though thank god I’ve gained to a more normal weight over the years. I don’t have, never had stick-out bones like that. I feel alarmed when I look at her.
A girl I know had the rods placed in her back at about 18 years old if I remember correctly.
I had scoliosis surgery at 13 because that was when I stopped growing. The doctors were monitoring my growth. My curve was too severe to go uncorrected. I am a normal weight and have no bones sticking out.
I had the surgery at 15 bc you stop growing afterwards and they wanted to wait until I grew a little (I’m 5’4 ish now). My hips are crooked still but none of my bones stick out. I call shenanigans on that!
I had my surgery in 2004 at the age of 17. It runs in my family too. My paternal aunt also had surgery for scoliosis back in the 60’s , I think she was around the same age as I was, but not sure on that.
Thanks, all of you for sharing about your surgery. I really envy you for having had it, because in the middle years scoliosis does seem to suddenly become more of a problem – achy back all the time, other parts of your body thrown out of balance because of it, etc. I’m thankful that it’s not glaringly apparent on me yet, but I do think it’s noticeable if you’re standing behind me and I’m wearing something body-con like a leotard. (My husband says it’s not readily visible at all, but I guess it’s his job to say that, lol.) Mostly though, it’s the pain that rocks my life. Sometimes I put on a back-brace or a waist-cincher beneath my clothes so that I can get thru my day without the pain kicking my a$$. Standing online for too long or chopping veggies at the sink for a long time can total me on a bad day.
She’s delusional. It’s part of the denialism that goes along with having an eating disorder. People should stop asking her these questions like they’ll cause her to see the err in her ways or realize that she’s just joking herself and then she’ll just snap out of it. That’s just not the reality of what’s really going on here.
Agree. The same way an addict makes excuses and deflects attention.
If you go back a little further than 2009, she looked even better. Scoliosis may explain the way her shoulder blades sit (though I suspect that has more to do with her pose in front of cameras), but it does not explain how the rest of her looks so gaunt now, nor how her facial features look so sunken like Karen Carpenter’s were. It’s scary to look at.
She used to look really good, and much different. I saw a clip of when she first met Bill and she was almost unrecognizable to me. She would do herself a huge service by admitting there’s a problem and dealing with it. It might even help some others who are dealing with an ED themselves, and prompt them to get help as well.
Yes! Someone said to google her by her maiden name and my oh my. She was very thin back even back then so it’s startling to see how much weight she’s lost since.
Why isn’t her family trying to help? Does Bill think she looks ok?
I just feel we should have discussions on weight and/or eating disorders that don’t hinge on speculations about individuals, famous or not.
Poor lady. I hope she gets better/stays healthy, whichever is the appropriate wish.
I agree, Sixer. I’ll add – may she never read the comments about her. Some of them are brutal.
I think the reason why people feel ok talking about her is because people DISLIKE her and her vapid persona, so everyone feels Turnabout it’s fair play
Very amusing how a certain comment refers to GR as being VAPID. Especially considering the intellectual gems that tend to come from its source. The only conclusion that can be drawn here is that it usually takes one to know one.
Not hearing sarabethjane, but also QQ, she makes a living off of commenting on other’s appearances. So while I agree with Sixer in theory, I think GR is just trolling at this point.
I actually always make a point of reading QQ’s comments because they are usually original and insightful, as well as darn fun most of the time.
I just personally would not comment on a particular person who may or may not have a potentially fatal disease.
Having said that, when the comments veer away from the specific topic and a specific person and people share their own personal experiences, I find that valuable.
Fair enough, and I know I won’t change your mind, Sixer. For the record, I usually agree with you. Hell, I usually refrain from negatively commenting on women’s bodies, period.
I also have to add that personally, I have no real opinion about Rancic aside from an abundance of empathy and sadness for her.
But to explain why so many people comment: Rancic opened herself up to scrutiny by sharing her life on a reality TV show. She detailed her workouts, her excessive dieting, and shared her fears about gaining weight.
I can tell you from personal experience that secrecy is an ED-sufferer’s best friend. She made a CRUCIAL error by sharing too much.
Once that door is opened, it’s a mad scramble to try to cover everything up. You have to get organized and formulate a plan to prevent anyone from intervening. You begin with shaming everyone who’s concerned into silence, whether it’s telling them that they’re crazy, making excuses for your thinness, or simply shutting them out entirely, you need to protect your disease first and foremost. You deflect, you hide, you alienate, you do what it f*cking takes.
If people are talking about your body, that’s great. “You’re too thin”? EXCELLENT. But “You’re too thin and I’m worried about you.” Oh HELL no.
That’s a red flag that someone’s going to try to take your ED away. Time to roll out the excuses and if that doesn’t work, start a fight. Just make them GO AWAY before they try to take your ED from you.
I hope you understand that it’s really hard for some of us to stay silent on this because we see ourselves so much in her behavior. For every person who is cruelly commenting about her, there are people like myself who are simply sad as hell for her. I know you might think that I’m projecting, and ordinarily I would give her the benefit of the doubt, but taken her current condition, her eating and exercise habits, and her behavioral patterns, well, it’s just too much to ignore.
Yeah, I can be a sanctimonious cow, can’t I?
I get it, you know? The motivation/impetus to say something. And it’s not as though I don’t feel it myself.
All this stuff you are saying here, generally about EDs, is absolutely illuminating to me and also, I believe, incredibly valuable contributions to vital discussions.
I just wish it was all about first person commentary, rather than speculation/picking over someone else. I mean that whether the speculation is negative, sympathetic or even veiled concern trolling. But then, I suppose you need the someone else to get the conversation going, don’t you?
PS: Kitten – can you help me? There are media guidelines for reporting suicides, which of course, the media hardly ever adheres to (see http://www.samaritans.org/media-centre/media-guidelines-reporting-suicide). Is there anything similar out there for EDs, do you know?
To my knowledge, there’s not a strict set of guidelines but I’ve seen this outline of issues to watch out for when reporting about EDs/ED-sufferers:
http://www.reportingonhealth.org/resources/lessons/writing-about-eating-disorders
Thanks for the link on suicide reporting, Sixer.
Thanks, Kitten. I will read it.
Kitten that’s what stands out to me too. She detailed her extreme diet and when it got attention she started making up excuses. First it was look I eat all the time! Then it’s her cancer medication and now it’s scoliosis. If it really was her cancer medication I believe she would have said it a long time ago. She’s been really open about her cancer journey. Instead she started talking more about food, posting photos on vacation in front of big plates of pasta.
I do hate that people are being so rude and calling her disgusting. But I have learned a lot about anorexica from these threads. I am currently concerned about someone close to me. She’s always been naturally thin, but after her third baby she was at a normal weight and would complain about how fat she was. Now she’s really, really skinny and has switched gears talking about how she eats all the time and can’t gain weight. She posts Facebook statuses about her love of food and it just seems like a cover up.
Plus, she’s parading all over the red carpet and on TV…showing us her body.
A big thanks to Sixer for all of her writing on these threads. It’s been incredibly enlightening. I’m familiar with other forms of mental illness, but I’ve really been educated about EDs here on CB. Who’d have thought? It’s a really valuable conversation that could potentially help us or someone we love one day. Idk.
I love Sixer’s comments, but I meant Kitten on this particular subject! My bad. 😳
If she has a ED she is also probley body dysmorphic, she would love doing red carpets as validation of being pretty and thin is like alcohol to a alcoholic. I really just feel her pain and want her to get help, she not thinking clearly and for ED is in full control. she really needs help
It’s sad because she’s saying that her struggles with self-image gave her wisdom that she wouldn’t otherwise have had and made her who she is today. But everyone else can see that she still struggles to see herself in a realistic light. I think she’s in real trouble, and I feel for her. She needs help. These other are just excuses.
Agreed. This excerpt gives a real insight into the depth of her painful self image. Crazy childhood is one clue (although I don’t know what particular brand of crazy so it might not be the main issue.) The line, “I was hoping someday someone would tell me I was pretty. I just wasn’t. I was crooked,” is kind of chilling. Certainly she was pretty in ways that had nothing to do with scoliosis but either no one was confirming that for her or she was already incapable of believing them. Either way, we are looking at someone with a profound illness. It’s really, really, really sad.
Yes, it is interesting that she has the insight about how her past experience shaped her but can’t seem to reconcile the fact that she’s clearly still dealing with a serious self-image problem. I can’t help but think she needs intensive therapy to grasp and deal with this…not a publicist or PR person to keep spinning stories and excuses.
completely agree. This excerpt does reveal more than just another excuse for her starved appearance. She needs professional help – and quickly.
I have known several people with scoliosis and none of them have bone ‘wings’ on their backs.
The photos of her from just 5 years ago reveal that she looked so much better with some weight on her. Right now, she looks as if she is a concentration camp survivor.
She looks like Karen Carpenter.
My thoughts exactly! Does she forget that we can look at pictures of her in 2005?
This is classic eating disorder, Alot of eating disorder suffers can be so unaware that they even have a eating disorder as can their friends and family.She has just given the perfect story that would back someone for having a eating disorder too. People with eating disorder are pro at deflecting their weight loss on other things. I really hope she gets the treatment she needs before her body gives up! E! need to stop for from going on air she needs treatment like months of proper ED treatment (no celeb rehab with pools and spas I’m talking psych ward ED treatment,) she is also very trigging to alot of people suffering from EDs
Agree with you that she just explained the reason for her ED. It’s terribly sad. And look out for all the explaining now that she’s gonna be out doing all kinds of press for this book. I wish she’d just take a break, but she seems more frantic and busy than ever.
I don’t see this ending well at all. I hope it does, but I really doubt it. She has a long history of body issues and hopefully she’ll recognize that she needs help before it’s too late.
Me thinks she doth protest too much!!! I googled a picture of Karen Carpenter, yesterday, and GR has the exact same emaciated look. I also googled that diet and fitness regime, GR had on her blog a while ago. It seems to me, that she is mostly dringking protien drinks and energy drinks to give her the strength to work out more. Doesn’t the camera ADD ten pounds! I hope her husband, and family, try to get her some help. It would be terrible, if she wasn’t around to watch her son grow up…
Ok. Sooo…. if her thinness is really a result of a health issue, wouldn’t she have been up front about that from the beginning? She was very open about her fertility and cancer treatments, it only follows that if her ongoing treatment was affecting her weight, she would’ve said something about that well before now.
I have been struggling with an autoimmune disease that affects my thyroid… and, trust, I am telling people all the time about how it’s affected my weight (25 pound weight gain in just 2 years). While I hope this is the result of her treatments, I have to admit, I’m extremely skeptical of her claims.
She should just stop talking.. the best thing she could have done was not address the issue or what was said on social media. Now she has to keep adding to her story.. forgetting what she has already said. If she is aware of a problem or feels she has a problem then deal with it.. but when you begin a conversation address tabloids or social media then you are going to have a hard time walking away from it. Now she is going to be asked about it all the time. I curious to see if she discusses it on her ENews show.. doubt it. When she is featured in the press it seems that day she is not at work or away on a trip.
She has some serious issues. She’s desperately trying to hang on to her youth in an industry that demands perfection. I wonder when she has her yearly checkups what her doctor says, it can’t be that she looks great? Something had to trigger this latest weight loss and I’m sure it’s job related. Getting older is harder on some people than others, her days of Queen Bee at E is almost over and I know this is playing a part on her decision making. I wish her well.
Yesterday, I read her “diet plan” from 2009, and it gave me a big case of the sads. It consisted mostly of cayenne pepper, lemon, grapefruit, chicken meat, and A LOT of scolding others for THINKING about taking in OIL, COFFEE, and BUTTER (the devils). In 2009, she was obviously paying a team of people flush fat out of her body, and keep her weight down, in preparation for her wedding. Now that she is on medication that makes it difficult for her to gain weight, perhaps she should hire a team of nutritionists that can help add much needed pounds to her emaciated frame. She is one of the privileged few people who can hire a team of professionals to help her customize a diet to fit her nutritional needs. If she really wanted to put on some weight, I think she could with some help. We see it all the time with actors and actresses preparing for roles in films.
It sounds like she DIDN’T survive her crazy childhood. More pieces to the puzzle for why she is now suffering from an ED. “I was called ugly my whole life” “I just wanted someone to say I was pretty”.
These are all the bs lines she tells Bill. He must be buying them. Someone mentioned she never holds her son. She probably isn’t strong enough.
Did she write a blog a few years ago about how healthy and full her diet was, but when it was added it it was like 900 cals a day?
I know those who have undergone chemo and they eat (per doctors orders) the most healthy diet (unprocessed, organic, etc) but they told me they need to eat lots of food and good fats to keep the strength to fight the cancer. Hopefully she’s following this method and not the old 900/day.
I never feel guilty when I dribble good fats on my veggies.
Poor Guliana.
At this point maybe we should just leave her alone and let her family address it. The talk is making her defensive and not doing any good. When I was heavily into my ED, it was deny, deny, deny.
I agree.
I don’t know what’s going on with her, but discussing it on the Internet and ripping her apart (yes, some people are doing that) will not help her, and if she does have an ED, that might even make it worse. I wish her all the best and hope that whatever it takes for her to be as healthy as she can be, she and her family will do that.
Just take a look at the difference between this thread and the Rebel Wilson thread from yesterday, completely different. You would think that, if people believe that she has an ED, they would be a bit more sensitive about the situation.
I also agree. I’ve never had an eating disorder, so I do know what it’s like, but it must be really hard with everyone looking and commenting. Good or bad things said, she probably would notice the bad things first. I wish her and anyone else with this illness good luck with getting better and being happy
I doubt she reads Celebitchy…..
I have scoliosis. My curvature was so bad I had to have surgery at 12 to permanently inset metal rods in my spine. I have a huge scar starting a few inches from the base of my neck, down to my tailbone. I have also been petite my whole life, and a skinny kid.
What Giuilana is saying is complete BS! I don’t have bones sticking out. And I am able to gain weight, as I filled out some since college.
Giuilana’s problem is an ED! She does not eat enough and suffers from body dysmorphia. She needs help and is in denial. I feel for her family. Her husband needs to have a “come to Jesus” talk with her about going to residential treatment. That’s what they need to focus on, not having another kid to expose to her unhealthy eating habits and possibility losing their mother to ED in a few years..
I had the surgery at 22, am a good weight an have shoulder blades like that. Having it at 12 is when you’re still growing an forming. Wish I had it at 12
Hi Giuilana
My sister had hers at 18, is skinny and her shoulders stick out a bit
I have scoliosis too, and I did not have the surgery, so still have a 30 or so degree curve with a twist in my spine, and what she is saying is total BS. It is also insulting to all young girls out there who have scoliosis. I had to wear a back brace as a girl and I still did not walk around in baggy clothes – what is she even talking about? I wear form fitting clothes, no one notices one hip being a little higher, you just have to know what works for your body, which is pretty much like most people. And she said she had the surgery, so what is she talking about anyways? It’s ridiculous all of the things she has blamed on what is obviously an eating disorder. That was a completely ignorant statement.
Her old photos do not show her looking painfully bony and people never mentioned her bony look for many years while she was on E, just that she was a tall, thin girl. Sorry, G, you are deflecting. She was slender but healthy looking. I think the first time I noticed she was too thin was when her wedding to Bill was aired. I remember thinking she dropped down too thin for the wedding. I think she forgets what she looked like for years. But I wish her well.
All I’m reading is people saying she’s full of BS and so many mean comments. If she has an eating disorder, is this the way to teat her? People with the problem have a hard time admitting it and make excuses. This is for her and her family to deal with, not people who don’t know her to rip her apart
True, but she’s the one putting it out there. If she didn’t want to address it, she shouldn’t have. I feel sorry for her, but pretending that everyone believes these excuses is not helping her, it’s enabling her. She needs professional help.
She has to say something to try to stop the cruel comments. I could never imagine people saying I look disgusting. I would probably run and cry. She needs help and we should all stop being mean and nosy about such a mentally and physically difficult disease.
Well, that is certainly a valid opinion. It’s none of my business, for sure. But I hope her family doesn’t humor her – to death. I’m hoping the public outcry will wake somebody up – her, or her husband or her employers – somebody, before this kills her.
Absolutely. People can be so cold and mean. When people say she looks awful, she’s a liar and is only telling BS, I shake my head.
Are all the commenters in perfect shape, weight, health, and gorgeous? My friend a few years ago killed herself after years of being picked on about looks. I hope GR gets help and is happy
Liar. I can smell an ED on her, god knows I used those same lies, same excuses, SAME DEFENSIVENESS for years before I eat mine, and every time I have a mild relapse and start restricting again, it’s the same bloody excuses, same meandering. Denial, lies, more lies. Health conditions, “trying to eat healthy”, “it’s just how I look”…. same old spiel.
At this point I can’t even roll my eyes at her. This woman’s gone off the deep end and now I only wish she could climb back out of that abyss. The thing is, with EDs though… you want to be left alone, but the moment people stop commenting on your weight loss, good OR bad, you start craving the attention again. I hated it when people commented on my body, but the moment they grew silent, I felt like my source of validation just died. Found new ways to bring my weight up covertly, insidiously.
I see you, Giuliana. You have a child and you’re not a teenager anymore, whose body can bounce back somewhat from the grievous damage she inflicts on it. If you want to wallow in it, fine. Your body, your decision. But you have people depending on you.
“you want to be left alone, but the moment people stop commenting on your weight loss, good OR bad, you start craving the attention again. I hated it when people commented on my body, but the moment they grew silent, I felt like my source of validation just died. Found new ways to bring my weight up covertly, insidiously.”
*nods head furiously*
It makes no sense, of course, but that’s why it’s a disease.
But before people get the misconception that it’s all about attention/vanity, I have to say that in between the self-congratulatory moments involved in achieving all the things that signify extreme skinniness (and there is a LIST including lanugo hair, vitamin deficiencies, losing your period, and other sick shit), there’s a ton of self-loathing involved as well. There are some really low lows, where you simply hate yourself, you’re disgusted with your body, and wish you could disappear forever.
I don’t think that a person needing validation comes from a place of vanity, but rather a hole in us somewhere. Everyone has that missing piece somewhere in their heart, I think, at some point in their life. It comes out in different ways. I hate to think of you suffering, Kitten. I’m so glad you’re better.
Wow! She looks healthy in 2009 but by 2015 she is skeletal. It’s very jarring when you see both those pics!
With that being said, in 2011 my father in law was diagnosed with cancer. The chemo really made him sick and he lost a lot of weight! After his treatments were over he gained the weight back plus some and actually had to start trying to drop a few lbs. So I’m not buying the cancer treatments are causing her extremely low weight!!!
I’m not buying the scoliosis thing either. I just did a little googling and it’s not adding up. I really hope she gets help!
If she’s had all these health issues I don’t think working at E helped at all she should have quit to focus on her health. or she could have worked for E but not in front of a camera.
Please stop! I am a chiro and what she’s saying is utter bull. The reason her bones look the way they do is because she has no muscle mass or fat. Scoliosis has absolutely nothing to do with it. Does she really think people are buying this? Of course, she does. Because she is in D-E-N-I-A-L about her real problem: ED.
As a *current* sufferer of scoliosis, i call BS. Twisted spines don’t sink one’s eyes or cheeks in. Or make the side neck muscles look that prominent. Although I do empathize with the sticking out shoulder bones a *little bit* because I’ve got the same problem. I’ve also got one hip that sticks out really far and when viewed from that angle I look super bony. My scoliosis is double curvature with rotation. And that famous (and sexist) boobs-and-butt pose that females tend to get shoved in? I can twist that far, but just on one side, in one direction.
The “just wanted to be called pretty” thing makes me sad. i get that. I’m crooked too. So many ED sufferers are really just trying to make themselves lovable. They just want to be loved, and at the same time feel unworthy of love so they try to make themselves worthy. Like if they can become perfect, they’ll be lovable.
“Feeling unworthy, trying to make themselves worthy”, is deep!
Is this really a thing? I personally know two people with scoliosis (one of whom is a pilates instructor). One of them is thin (thought couldn’t be accused of being underweight) and the other is straight up curvaceous. If I know my basic anatomy, you don’t gain weight in your bones – you gain it in fat and muscle. Which lays over the bones. So if she were to gain weight, yes, she would look less “bony” because she’d have more tissue on top of the bones. Isn’t that correct? I just can’t really see how this explanation could work.
I think E! is being irresponsible by keeping her on the air. She clearly is going through some stuff – she also disclosed that her surrogate miscarried their final embryo. Why don’t they put her on mandated vacation for a few weeks? Let her take some time off to evaluate her life, spend time with her husband and son, etc. But then again, I think maybe the network is very competitive and maybe she doesn’t want a stand-in to possibly capture her spot? I’m not sure.
She’s not saying the scoliosis makes her bones in her back protrude, it’s because of the surgery to straiten her back.
Your friends are lucky to be able to do pilates because at 29 my scoliosis and osteoporosis is severe and I can’t.
No Fashion Police until September, so she won’t have to do that. E shouldn’t keep her off the air and make her feel like crap, she needs treatment
But that wasn’t my point. My point was that she’s saying that gaining weight would not stop her from looking “bony.” However, while that might be true for her shoulders or back, the pictures show a person whose face is looking sunken and almost skull-like. That’s not caused by a bone disease – that’s lack of fat under the skin. She’s trying to create excuses.
I have bad scoliosis and I am annoyed how she uses that as an excuse for a totally unrelated thing. I am sorry if her bodyimage was affected by that – mine isnt and I will never have it fixed. Living with the look of ribs and hipbones all over the place is the least of my worry, I am more concerned of staying healthy 🙂
At this point I will just say that it is good to hear so many stories of hope and strength – thanks all.
Unless her husband is an enabler/codependent or they never actually eat meals together, he should be able to see the reality here. The days of Karen Carpenter are over – I hope. Nobody should sit silently by and watch their loved one waste away to nothing.
I also wonder if she is exercising like mad as well. A teenager I know has been to two different inpatient rehab programs for ED. There were nearly as many young boys there as young girls. At least one of the facilities had monitoring and alarm devices so they could detect certain movement of patients during sleeping hours. Apparently some want to burn off calories through constant movement or exercise, even if in the middle of the night. Very sad.
Yes, my son is in the midst of an exercise obsession like that. Before we got it under control, I would sneak upstairs and listen outside his door to make sure he wasn’t doing pushups when he said he was going to be doing homework or something. For him, it stems from anxiety and exercise (and watching what he eats — he eats plenty of calories but won’t ever treat himself to sweets or junk) is a way for him to feel in control. Scary stuff if not monitored and treated.
Anxiety was the catalyst for my ED and the need for control fueled it.
You’re doing the right thing, Esmom, just stay on him.
That is sadly very true. I spent four months in inpatient treatment about 12 years ago and that was a huge problem. Not just at night. Some of the girls(and women, ranging from ages 17 to 55-60) would fidget or tap their toes, bounce their legs. All in an attempt to burn calories. Of course the nurses would try to stop it. At night they would try to get out of bed to exercise. Or they would fidget in bed. The ones who were really bad had to sleep in constantly monitored rooms. That wasn’t my particular issue so I didn’t. But I never had access to a bathroom without someone standing right outside the stall listening..so we all had our own weird stuff
It’s called ‘winged scapula’ – can be caused by a variety of things (2/3 of my kids have it due to a hereditary connective tissue disorder). In GR’s case, I’m sure it is related to the scoliosis, but she is deluding herself if she thinks it wouldn’t be less noticeable if she gained 20 lbs.
When I clicked on the post, I wasn’t ready to what I was about to see. I’m shocked with her frist picture. It’s unnerving to see, like she’s about to break. Hope she gets help, and quickly.
I think the years of starvation have damaged her brain (that’s a real thing–anorexia is a terrible disease). She isn’t fooling anyone with these excuses.
All you have to do is look at her shoulders in the 2009 pic and then the others. You can almost see the ball and socket. She needs help.
I remember seeing her on The View around the time she was trying to get pregnant. The doctors had told her that she needed to gain 5 lbs and she refused to do it. I remember Whoopie giving her grief about it, because it was only 5 lbs and she wouldn’t do it in order to get pregnant. We shouldn’t believe our lying eyes I guess??
Regarding the comment about fertility meds – they don’t make you lost weight. Trust me. They also often screw up your metabolism to the point where it is very difficult NOT to gain weight. I was skeptical on cancer meds making her lose weight yesterday as most of them seem to plump you up. But when it comes to fertility meds – I’m positive. No way did this have anything to do with her losing a bunch of weight. Remember – this is the woman who refused to put on even 10 lbs when she was trying to get pregnant. I am wondering, however, if she had her ED under control prior to this, and the notion of gaining weight just sent her spiraling back own.
I watched my sister slowly waste away and die from eating disorders. I know what someone looks like when they have one. She is going to die, and soon, if she does not get treatment. She’s probably at the point where she is already doing significant damage to her internal organs as the body seeks nutrition by feeding on itself. Sadly, if they get that bad, by the time they become serious about getting help it’s too late and they cannot physically recover from the damage. I, like anyone who has lived through this with a loved one, have little patience for the excuses and foolish denials you hear from people suffering from this disease, but I do understand that it is both a physical and mental disorder. I hope she gets help, for her family’s sake if nothing else, because it’s horrible to have to watch this happen to someone you love.
I too watched while my sister committed slow suicide with eating disorders. I remember the denials, the excuses, and how she pushed me, my parents, her husband and friends away when they voiced their concerns. It was the most heart-breaking thing I’ve ever had to deal with and the aftermath was devastating for us all. She needs to go into therapy ASAP to ensure she’s around to see her kids grow up.
So sorry for your loss, I know how helpless it makes you feel.
I’m sorry for yours also, Jaded. I know you know how frustrating these stories are for us, because they always bring the memories back. All I have to do is see a picture like that and I can still see my sister. Unfortunately, I think some people have difficulty imagining this as a real disease until it strikes someone in their family. I think that’s why we still have a culture of denial in this country about the problem. There’s just so much misunderstanding about the disorder, whether anorexia, bulimia, or both. I think many people just think they should turn it around and start eating — I know I used to think that long ago, until I watched my panic-stricken sister struggling to eat to gain weight and her body rejecting the food. It’s horrible, horrible, horrible.
Let me first say I’m sorry for your loss. I can feel the love and experience you had for your sister in your words. I really do think the “mean” comments are in the minority here. People die from eating disorders and I think that’s what people are reacting to. Her other health issues may compound the problem but she’s not going to just “get better”. Someone needs to intervene. Every time I look at her my stomach drops because it’s clear that she’s in serious trouble. To gloss over something this serious is just perpetuating the problem.
Yeah I don’t think the commenters are being unkind. I think sadly that many of us know intimately the horrible cycle of an ED. I know how the lies are told and excuses are made. I’ve told them all before. Your ED is your best friend, your lover, your family, your everything. And the lies have to be told or you might lose what you’ve convinced yourself you can never live without. I understand all too well. And it makes me sad. I hope she gets help before it’s too late.
So much hugs and love to you guys. ♥
I am honestly amazed that she’s alive and working. How does she work when she feels that way? I was in school at the height of my eating disorder, and that was bad enough. I pushed through, but I wasn’t there for hours a day, and I had more freedom over my schedule than she does. It’s just so hard to function at that point.
I was always amazed at how my sister would go through her daily routine day after day even when it was difficult for her to walk distances and she was so frail a strong wind could have knocked her over. The worst part was how long it took — from the time when she was diagnosed with a serious eating disorder until she died spanned nearly 15 years, during which time she was hospitalized multiple times, entered virtually every disorder treatment center there was, gained some weight, and succumbed to the disease again. I credit the length of time she lived with it to the numerous interventions and short-lived improvements from treatment, but I doubt it would have been nearly that long had she not received any help. If this woman doesn’t accept that she has a problem and seek that help, she is not going to live long.
She has winged scapula. One of the causes of winged scapula is being underweight.
Did she say those things without thinking people with Schelosis would read it? i’ve had it my whole life & its opposite of what she said. It ‘shows’ more when you are thin. you look better when the bones are less noticeable with some extra weight. When I get too thin, thats when people notice & I get the ‘boney’ cooments. My doc also said weight training, some extra musle weight on the bones, strengthens the spine & can make the bones stronger. so prefer to be about 10lbs heavier so my boney shoulders & hip, shoulders aren’t ‘poking’ out. she is spouting pure BS. Oh & very rare for adutls to get surgery to repair schelosis.
Before I got treatment for ED I couldn’t gain weight because of a full class schedule and I was naturally thin and sports just shaved the pounds off and if it got really out of control I had a nasty flu or my favorite, acid reflux.
I’m not judging her, but she’s exhibiting classic ED behavior. I feel for her, because denial with this disease is the real killer.
Rubbish; a great big commercial sized bin of rubbish. Scoliosis or corrective surgery doesn’t cause bony shoulder blades, lack of body fat and muscle tone does. She is in full fledged denial about having an eating disorder, and is giving excuses presented as reasons. She needs professional help to learn how to change the way she sees and thinks of herself. She has a beautiful little boy who deserves to have his mom around for a long time.
I have a bad feeling about this.
So do I.
I feel like the next update we get on her will be a death announcement.
Looking at her pictures I thought she was a tiny thing (like 5’4″ to 5’6″). I was shocked to see her height listed as 5’9″!!! 😳 to be that tall and so thin is very unhealthy. I really wish she would come out of her denial and seek help.
I’ve seen pictures of her thin but not emanciated like now and she used to be pretty.
Shit, yeah? I thought she was short, too.
She has a severe ED. Anyone who has followed her closely knows this. The things she says and does are not healthy. This is the time to seek treatment. Not pity.
This tour of pity is getting annoying. She’s trying to gain sympathy because her time at E! is coming to a close. For one, she’s entering her 40’s. Hosts are always 20’s-30’s. Once they reach that age, it’s goodbye, with the exception of Joan Rivers, who was legendary at E! Two, her Fashion Police mess has made her incredibly unpopular and two people quit because of her. She’s also trying to show that she’s not a mean girl and she too has struggled with appearance. Three, E! is becoming worried. She’s been on less red carpets this past season and she has been covered up more. She lost a magazine cover. This denial is more for her career than for anything else.
Oh dear. She really is delusional. Scoliosis doesn’t make your cheeks hollow, love.
Bill, come get your wife, she needs help.
Seriously, am I supposed to feel sympathy and empathy over her weight and image issues when she makes a living pointing out other people’s same issues?
Give me a break!
I’m just wondering if she was able to get pregnant, how would that have went? If she has a hard time gaining weight how would she and her docs have handled that during her pregnancy? Also, how would she have been able to carry a baby with those rods in her back? That seems so painful. Anyone have any insight?
I’ve heard of women with scoliosis being pregnant and giving birth without any problems, but the low weight could possibly have been an issue, especially with the two problems combined.
Three of my cousins and my closest friend have had scoliosis surgery. All have had multiple children. The back rods don’t factor into it at all
Really I’m surprised the back rods aren’t an issue. I know a lot of pregnant women complain about back pain so I assumed a lot of pressure was put on the back when carrying. Thanks for the info.
Ugh. I had surgery for scoliosis as a teenager, yet I don’t look like a praying mantis. I think she’s making up excuses for her obvious eating disorder.
I remember on one of the episodes of her reality show with her husband, that he told her should stand to gain some weight and she quickly told him that if she gained five pounds it would show up twice that on screen. She said she couldn’t gain weight because of her on air job.
My 73 year old mother has been an anorexic for as long as I can remember. My dad tells me she weighed around 135 lbs when they married 54 years ago (she’s 5’7″). Now we have to really watch her carefully to ensure she eats, as she is aroung 105 lbs now (which is good, for her). But, she still complains that she is too heavy, needs to lose a few pounds, etc. She had a stroke a couple of years ago and had to restrict her diet even more than she does already and she wouldn’t admit it, but she was very pleased about that-now she had a real reason to limit her eating. This is a woman who considers a half a can of soup to be a full meal.
Just like GR she makes excuses often flat out denies she has a problem. Well, I am here to tell you she does have a problem. I remember in the 70s when I was a kid her going in and out of hospitals because she starved herself so much. Now her health is beginning to decline and I know a big part of it is because of the way she’s abused her body over the decades. It’s a terrible way for a kid to grow up, so I really feel sorry for her son. If she doesn’t get some help soon it’s going to affect that kid, just as it has affect both me and my brother. We still have our mother, for which we are grateful, but it’s hard to spend a lifetime watching someone you love starve themselves.
This is so sad. She clearly has an ED. She’s always been fairly thin but the drastic changes are not only noticeable in her protruding bones. Just look at her face. It is not only her sunken cheeks, it’s her skin, her thining hair. She needs help ASAP. I callled it back when she wore that pink dress on awards season. Everything about her looks scary and the more excuses she makes, the more it shows how big the problem is.
I DO feel sorry for her. I get that she cannot bring herself to eat enough because of an actual illness. But I am totally disgusted by the users and enablers in her life, including but not limited to her employer, her husband, her co-workers, family members, etc., who see her every day and pretend everything is fine – even making excuses for her. I know that she’s very wealthy, but do they love her money and the money it brings to them THAT MUCH that they would ignore a serious health problem, and actively enable/encourage excuses instead of demanding she get help?
I fear she may be to far into her eating illness to ever find the light. Very sad, especially when her child is so young.
Well, I have scoliosis, and I definetly does not look like this. There is also treatments other than surgery even if you are an adult. It is calles Schroht methode. It is a special workout . It is just comfortable to blame something else for your ED. Sure it is possible she has Scoliosis ( has as in Presence, you don’t grow out of it) but it is just anoying to listening to her for someone who really has scoliosis.
What??? Shoulder bones do not jut out because of scoliosis. Does she not realize other people know about scoliosis, too???
I feel badly for her, because she’s in the grips of some SERIOUS denial about a body image issue and/or eating disorder.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong but if it was the scoliosis wouldn’t one scapula jut out more than the other? I wonder if her problem is that her muscles are wasting away and unable to keep her shoulder blades in position in addition to no fat to over the bones.
Instead, now I will enjoy the “cheat” food by having a little bit of it and giving the rest away. For instance, if i just MUST have pasta, I will let my husband order it and have some bites of his. Or I will order a healthy dish and ask for a half order of the pasta (no cream, ever!) on the side. I will eat half of the side of pasta and pass the rest around the table so my friends can try it to. That way you are impressing the table with your generosity and cutting lots of calories:) I know this is easier said than done but it all depends on how badly you want to change your eating habits and the way you look.” -GdiP/R
“Another of her strategies involved offering samples of her food to others around the table. She would rave on about her delicious meal and then insist that everyone try it for themselves. “Here, you have some,” she would say as she enthusiastically scooped heaps on to others’ plates. “Would you like to taste this?” By the time dinner was over, Karen’s plate was clean but she had dispersed her entire meal to everyone else. “-from a book about Karen Carpenter
Wow, that is chilling, the comparison.
Wow. Scary how similar the responses are
definatly a deflection. And wouldn’t it have been wonderful had she thought of this when on fashion police and other people struggles rather then perpetuate a myth or obsess on others inperfections
Whoever conducted this interview is a disgrace to their profession. I haven’t seen any comments that have not doubted or questioned the veracity of her statements yet the interviewer has accepted and published the tall tales without hesitation taking her words at face value.
Over and over again in the comments here people see holes, inconsistencies and counterintuitive statements and explanations but people mag accepts it as fact. Shame on this rag mag for insulting its readers!!!
People magazine is known for being a PR wagon for celebs to shill their latest PR spin.
Uhh, maybe part of her back and one rib from the curvature would protrude noticeably. As someone said up thread, anyone who has or has had an eating disorder can smell one from a mile away… This reeks of it. I feel awfully for her, because she has to feel like hell.
Google older pictures of her and her bones don’t show. She’s getting desperate. I have a rod in my back, it makes no difference. If you don’t want to get the help you so desperately need for yourself, please get it for your son. He needs his Mom around. You are starting to look like Karen Carpenter, and it’s scary.
She needs an intervention. She cannot control this. It is well known that once you get below a certain weight, brain dysfunction sets in and you don’t think normally. Not surprising since a starvation diet is not good for your thought processes. Unfortunately sometimes you have to force the issue and involuntarily commit someone and/or they have to be tube fed.
I think this is painful to people around anorexics because they subconsciously realize that it’s a desperate attempt for a women to control her body, in however misguided a way, when society keeps telling her that everything is wrong with how it looks.
I’ve had scoliosis since I was a teen and I know each case is different but I’m calling BS here. She’s obviously very sick and very much in denial and I’m honestly getting tired of hearing it. It’s almost as if she enjoys the attention, she needs to get help for the sake of her son, who she claimed to want so badly but couldn’t gain 10 lbs to possibly help her get pregnant, then once the surrogate had him she went straight back to work, and now she’s basically killing herself. I do feel sorry for her but her son deserves a healthy mother, and I have a bad feeling, she looks so incredibly ill lately.
I watched E! last evening and just had to shake my head. She was being defiant about her weight, the publicity around it, and giving her version of “the truth”. Plus the two guys who co-anchored the show were also defending her, acting as if she has been victimized. It was a really disturbing show, IMO, particularly after learning in here on Celebitchy from others who have experienced EDs and recovered from them.
She wore a black, long sleeved dress with a high collar and so she didn’t look as rough as some of the other photos we’ve seen of her lately. I guess she’s going to be on Good Morning America, or the Today show next Monday (one of those, can’t recall) to launch this book of hers. Expect this to be a topic for her to discuss then, too.
Deflect, Blame, Shame. That’s what I saw on TV. Her coworkers are her enablers. The entire scene was tragic, I thought.
I just googled an image of Karen Carpenter smiling and it looks like her skin is so stretched from there not being any fat in her cheeks. When Guilana smiles it’s the exact same thing! It’s really evident when you compare pics of the two ladies that Guilana is on the same path as Karen. So sad too!
Bull-effing-es… that being said. Why do we care? Lots of people die from all kinds of diseases and we don’t blink an eye. Why do we single out ED diseases to pick apart? did anyone try to badger Robin Williams into changing? No… because we all know it’s kind of fruitless. I don’t see how EDs are any different.
Not saying people close to someone shouldn’t help, but us shouting at her from a distance probably does ZERO to help… and probably makes things worse tbh.
It’s beyond sad at this point – my mother is an anorexic and once you live with a person with an ED you can spot the lies a mile away.
Think of your child Miss Rancic and please get some help.