Pippa Middleton has reportedly become a symbol for groups that advocate extreme thinness and even champion eating disorders, such as anorexia.
She captured the world?s attention with her sensational figure during the wedding of her sister Kate Middleton and Prince William. But has it really come to this?
Pippa is by no means overly thin, or likely anorexic. Yet she reportedly is featured on pro-anorexia Web sites as a role model to emulate, according to London?s Daily Star.
Photos of the athletic Pippa are reportedly being used with the following exhortation to readers: ?Starve yourself to look this good.?
Similar Web sites use photos of the svelte Pippa, looking glamorous in her bridesmaid dress, to encourage readers to be ?Thin ? or die trying.?
Pippa, 27, is in excellent shape. On June 18, she ran 20 miles and cycled another 30 miles as part of the Highland Cross duathlon.
Just two weeks earlier, Middleton finished a 5k race with an impressive time of 25 minutes, 30 seconds as part of the GE Blenheim Triathlon in Woodstock, England.
While Pippa and sister Kate, who is five-feet, ten-inches tall and asize-two, may be ?thinspirations,? they?re both fitness fanatics who run, swim, hike, cycle, do Pilates, strength-train and play tennis.
Anorexia strikes nearly 1 out of 200 women. Sufferers are five times more likely to die than the general population, according to the July 2011 issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.
Researchers couldn?t pinpoint a main cause of death, but suicide and the debilitating physical effects of malnutrition were highlighted factors.
Often in anorexics, they become so emaciated their internal organs fail for lack of nutrition.
Eating disorders are reportedly rife at some of the UK?s top all-girls? schools.
Anorexia and bulimia, which involves binging and purging, can strike when girls are under serious pressure to perform, or to conform to beauty and style trends.
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