It's the eternal question: What came first, Kate Bosworth's forever shrinking figure or the stress in her relationship with Orlando Bloom? Radar can't figure it out either
Have you heard? Kate Bosworth is, like, super skinny. According to Star, the Superman Returns starlet's Praying Mantis look for fall was a totally major reason for her breakup with expressionless dreamboat Orlando Bloom.
"He'd literally coax her to eat off his plate!" a friend shrieks to the magazine. "But there was only so much he could do." And yet, in a snake-eats-its-own-tail twist, Star also blames the strain of being in a failing relationship for "stressing Kate out to the point that she had no appetite."
I'm sure that makes Orlando feel great. Hey, maybe this new man, James Rousseau, will help her graduate from eating smoke to perhaps some liquids.
Editor
Oh yes.. she's depressed, self-inflicted, control freak depressed. She can't handle her life, she needs to get another job.
THE MOST LETHAL MENTAL ILLNESS: ANOREXIA
Starving to death is not beautiful or poetic; it is an ugly death and a painful one. Starved bodies ache all the time. The skin bruises, the muscles cramp and deteriorate, the brain slows and slurs, the bowels stop working on own (there is nothing glamorous about that), The breath smells foul, the bones splinter and hurt and break, the body is constantly weak but ceases to be able to sleep restfully (why? because your body thinks it needs to stay awake to hunt for food, the body assumes it is in a famine)… the mouth dries, the eyes fog, the heart flutters and beats hard and painfully, and there can be many scary moments prior to actual death where the body feels so sick and like its dying (because it is).
Starving oneself will compromise the body in many ways. Metabolism is changed in such a way that it becomes more likely that fat is retained. People who eat more food than anorexics can maintain a naturally slim body. Once the metabolism is damaged beyond repair, weight can be gained on only a few hundred calories a day. Anorexia will stop growth in height, and can result in shrinking height due to osteoporosis. The brain can shrink (the brains of anorexics have less grey matter). Cessation of menstruation or erratic menstrual cycles can also result (which may continue after recover and hurt the ability to have children, as will osteoporosis). Hormone imbalance, which can cause growth of facial hair and heart strain, can also result from anorexia. Purging can cause blood vessels in the eye to rupture, resulting in blindness. Other physical complications include fatigue, skin problems, fine hair growth on the body, kidney and liver damage, and cardiac arrest (usually due to low potassium).
Anorexia has the highest death rate of any psychiatric disorder. Between 5 and 15% of patients die during treatment, and the number that die altogether is probably 20%. Anorexia affects 5 to 10% of all American women, and at least 20% of college women binge and purge on a regular basis. The disease usually starts between ages 14 and 17. (Source: Bulimia/Anorexia, The Binge/Purge Cycle and Self-Starvation, by Marlene Boskind-White, Ph.D. and William C. White, Jr., Ph.D., 2000)
Bulimia is also life threatening. The sudden change in electrolyte balance when purging can stop the heart from beating. Most bulimics who die do so in the act of purging.