Kate Moss and her “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” motto brought anorexia to the media’s attention last week. Moss was lambasted for being insensitive about girls and their eating disorders.
This story reminded me of the horror of my best friend in standard six fading away in our boarding house. She ate 3 peas a day when she was at her anorexic worst. Midyear she left boarding school when had to be hospitalised. Later she went home to be with her parents and attend a local school.
She wasn’t the only girl in our all-girls boarding house who was struggling with an eating disorder. Many of those young unhappy girls in a strange place were struggling to control their environment. And controlling what they ate was a way of making sense of their lives at that time. A devastating way.

So I was delighted to see today that Israeli fashion photographer Adi Barkan is releasing a campaign to promote anorexia awareness which demands that model agencies don’t hire models who are suffering from malnutrition.

In this picture, Barkan photographs model Noga Dekel as Aya Barazani, who suffers from anorexia, sits in her wheelchair during a photo shoot for the campaign in Barkan’s studio near Tel Aviv.

Noga Dekel poses for anorexia awareness campaign

(picture AP)

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