josie you are so right with mama thinking her life is the perfect way to be. All i ca say to her there is is her kids are gunna wound up seriously fucked. I know that for a fact. My mum tried to conform to the “perfect” life inflicting it on me and my brother…and well….Im bulimic now bordeing anorexia, my brother over eats and pretends all is ok and my mu couldnt take it no longer she tried to kill herself. Perfect hey!

I think it’s unfair for her to call bones ugly, because some people are naturally bony, and it’s just her personal opinion anyway.
It’s a bit like her posting the picture of the girl balancing coins on her collarbones – i can do that at a healthy weight, and i still have some protruding bones at my healthy weight too.

She then went on to say rolls weren’t attractive either … but that doesn’t leave much scope!! I have both rolls and bones – both ends of the spectrum put together.

She’s not thinking out her arguments well at all.

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mamavision
October 12th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Hi Alexaaa: I am not one to sugarcoat so – yes bones are ugly. If you had a picture like this with bones sticking out I would say you looked, well, ugly.

Truth hurts, and its about time someone said it.
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I sent her my pics to see if im thin enough to be labeled as ugly… i dont belive in tough love…her coment much far from helping me, really hurted me… maybe i twisted her comment but its the way i feel.

Josie and Vanessa, may i add you to my msn??

you’re welcome, lol. i think the woman behind mamavision means well, honestly. but she doesn’t really understand eds or proana and she makes excuses for her ignorance instead of learning and changing. and i do think she enjoys the validation she gets and makes excuses when she goes over the line- which is very often.

josie-

as usual, i agree with you completely. people don’t understand how twisted people’s thinking gets with an ed, and in different ways for different people. oh- and i’m so glad mamaV finally responded to your comments. its times like this i get really angry with her and everyone who believes or follows her, not even because of what she said originally as much as the way she refuses to change her mind or admit she was wrong in any way.

The last paragraph is especially right. People can’t grasp the concept that people with mental illnesses think irrationally when it comes to ‘normal’ and unscary illnesses like EDs or depression. With schizophrenia people are scared and expect irrational beliefs, but people see anorexia as too normal, especially because we can all identify with feeling fat and being on a diet!

I’d disagree with queen_apathy that mamaV has her own issues. I think her problem is that of the average American – thinking she has issues when she doesn’t, and therefore thinking she understands. I also think she falsely believes her life is perfect, and is a standard for others to conform to, which isn’t right either.