Anorexic woman used in ad...what do you think? (WARNING:GRAPHIC!)

http://www.stuff.co.nz:80/4214181a11215.html

What are your thoughts on the ad? Do you think it will raise awareness of what an awful disease anorexia is?  Do you think some girls/women will think the model actually looks good & will want to be that thin?  I look at her & just think about how sad her life must be....

(NOTE: I'm in no way promoting anorexia! I found the ad disturbing & wanted to know what others opinions on it are.)

SHOCKING but sometimes thats what people need????

Christ on a cracker she weighs 68 lbs. I personally think art is a freedom of speech and that's his choice. I'm a more positive person and would go a different direction but I respect his choice to use her in his ad.

Damn!! She hot!! LOL

 Seriously though, truth aint pretty! Otherwise there would be alot more honest people in the world. Its so hard to see it! Just like when Access Hollywood showed the worlds biggest woman just recently going through Bypass surgery and she died shortly after. Its so sad! It makes you aware of both extremes.

I dont like it... its way to extreme for anyone to actually relate. All the people who might have anorexia would just point to that and say "i dont look like that, so i must not be anorexic, i am just a little on the skinny side!".

Anorexia is a real issue that can be causing major issues FAR before that stage (her stage is more along the lines of dead in the morning).

My first reaction is that it should be this in their face but I bow down to professionals and if they feel that anorexics would not be turned off from it and actually aspire to it, I'll take their opinion over mine.

We dont see the same things anorexics see when looking at such an image so its understandable that this would not be a negative ad as intended. 

I do think its their choice but I think its irresponsible if they didnt consult with anyone in the medical field before doing this.

Pungygirl I've read a few posts of yours now, and what i've read scares me. To put it bluntly, you are sick.
This site does offer help and advice from lots of people who have solid personal experience in different areas, but you need a professional.
Go get some help. 

On another note, has anyone ever seen the Band of Brothers mini series?
Its about the troops in germany, and one of the episodes shows when they discover the concentration camps... the woman in the pic reminds me of all of the people they had playing the roles of the jewish prisoners.  I wonder if they used actual anorexic people for the scenes...
Both images make me sad.

Actually, I agree with LorikLorik on this one. The people this ad is really aimed at.. will look at it and say "That's not me. I don't look like that."

So.. I'm not sure of the efficacy of this particular ad.

It is a bit on the disturbing side.

Sick is the word that came to my mind too after reading pungygirl's comment. That or you have a weird sense of humor. What is emaciated then for you? You need to get help. You are too young for that. Not that there's a right age...

That put aside, I saw that picture 2 days ago. It is disturbing and not pretty. And Lorik has a good point. You can be anorexic and not look like that (yet) and it could give the wrong idea to some.

one word...sick. how anyone could find that funny or pretty is beyond me.

Anyone worried about pungygirl's posts haven't read her horrifying profile. It's troublesome

Oh, I read the profile too.  Its just wonderful to know that collarbones and ribs constitute as interests.   I feel like I'm being mean, but maybe mean is what this girl needs to wake the f up....

When an anorexic person has a distorted view of how they look does that also apply to how they see others??   Would an anorexic person see this woman & think she looks good? Or would she see her as underweight?  In other words, does someones distorted self image only apply to themselves and they see others more realistically?  

I love it and I'm glad it's out there as a harsh contrast. It's been public before yes, but not like this.

Anoretics may see another woman who is technically classified by society as overweight, or very voluptuous, and still believe they are lesser than them and will only be equivalent with a smaller girth and waist size.

that's just nuts and ewww!!!!!!!!

I didn't look

Actually, in my experience (never had it myself mind you, but I know people who have) anorexia is a self image issue.  So somebody anorexic may see the picture and think "oh my god, that woman is so skinny!"  But then they also think "I don't look like that though, I'm too big"  All of the anorexic people I've known think worse of themselves if they're not thin, but don't think worse of other people.  Like I said, that's just most of the ones I know, not everyone is like that.

i have anorexia (yet am in recovery) and personally i think the ad has a good message...and since i saw people are interested in how anorectics would perceive that ad...i wanted to add my input. Personally, i think the woman looks sick, grotesque, and emaciated and i see absolutely nothing attractive about her- and i say this knowing i felt that way both at my sickest and now when i am in the process of recovery (but still get triggered easily). I do not find the ad triggering...and i hold no jealousy towards the model, and hope I will never look like (or get anywhere near) looking like that.

Like someone else mentioned...anorexia really is more about self-image. Though I do tend to mentally be judgemental of people...people who sometimes weigh upto 10 lbs more than me i may perceive as thinner than i am...but thats what this disease does. screws up how you see yourself.

All of the anorexic people I've known think worse of themselves if they're not thin, but don't think worse of other people. 

Exactly my experience with it too. And I agree as well in that I'm not sure anyone with anorexia will see it the same way I do.  Their perceptions are not always the same as others.  The ad itself is visually disturbing to me, but might not have the same effect on someone else.

A friend in college was 5'7" and always said she was so fat at 100 pounds.  I was an inch taller and 25 pounds heavier and she said I looked great.  She never admitted to being anorexic, but I always knew.  She went down to 80 pounds and thank God she finally got help.  But back then, if you had showed her this ad, I don't think she would have seen it as representative of herself.

I suffer from anorexia and I know I don't find that AT ALL attractive. I would not want to look like that at all. Hopefully, I will be get helped and be recovered before then.

I agree with loriklorik's comment. A lot of girls are probably just going to think "Well, I'm not THAT skinny yet. I don't need to get help for this disorder right now. I still have time before I ever look like that."
I know thats what I think. And I'm struggling to get help so I don't ever end up that way.

Anorexia is a disorder of the mind. I look at people 20 lbs heavier and think "god, she's so skinny." But when I look at myself, it's a totally different story.

well, when i look at it i think it's gross.

 

being a recovered anorexic (been a healthy weight & eating normally for almost year now) when i WAS anorexic i wouldn't have really wanted to look like that, because clearly the ad is trying to make her look ugly with the face, etc. but it wouldn't have helped me either. there are plenty of other photos of models who are that skinny that i looked at anyways lol. 

 

but yeah when i was that sick, no ad no matter how good it was could make me change my mind about starving myself.

 

but it does help now, because it makes me not want to go back to looking gross like that.