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anorexia

[an-uh-rek-see-uh] / ˌæn əˈrɛk si ə /
NOUN
anorexia nervosa
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Naomi, who is in her 30s, wanted to live at home during treatment for her anorexia so she could continue to look after her child.

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He stopped using models with low body mass indexes when one - Ana Carolina Reston - died of anorexia.

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He was also the first designer to ban underweight models from the runway, after the death of model Ana Carolina Reston in 2006 from anorexia nervosa.

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In her 2000 book Body Wars, psychologist Margo Maine wrote that, external if Barbie were scaled up to adult height, she would have a figure within the guidelines for diagnosing anorexia.

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Millie managed to take up a place at university but dropped out at the start of her second year after developing anorexia.

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