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Eating disorder in 'under pressure'



Is it just me or is anyone else fuming at the omission of this plotline?

Ok i can handle *just about*, the mis-casting , but not this i feel so betrayed, i mean in Tracy Becker *btw i detest it*, Tracey is both like the book portrayal, (little sis reads them).

I was looking forward so much to the plotline, not because i'm a weird perv or anything but from age (late 16- 18), i experienced my own eating disorder, first anorexia and later bulimia ,so i was looking forward to the storyline , but noo it was never broadcast, i'd really love to know why?. too riskey, i dunno would have been good for teenage girls to see a "proper storyline", not like the ones in American "teen programes", wher everything is big hair, big make-up and big smilies, ommitting the more serious undertones of being a teenager today.

Anyone else feel the same?.

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i agree

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I must of missed that episode!, anyways i remeber one episode where Ellie was a bit down because of a boy/ or her friends and was trying to eat some chocolate, but couldn't , and i though 'huh is that it' , as a recovering anorexic bulimic, and well it's just generally knoweledge you arn't eating disordered for a day, week , or even a month, it's longer than that, and it doesn't just dissolve because you want it too.

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I totally agree wiv everyone on this message board it wasnt rite of the makers to not do that part, i think its an important issue for teenagers and people/young adults shld be made more aware of the fact that it is a growing problem. i had hoped that Girls in love could hve ben the program to show these issues, but sadly i was wrong and disserpointed.

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i totally agrees with ya karen. I am from america so that makes this kinda weird. But i think you have a point. i think that if people want kids to stop taking drugs, having sex, and being disrespectful, they have to show them the results if they were to do these things. I think that the television business in america is a bunch of bs. They play things that shadow the real issues. Instead of taking about eating disorders, murders, peer pressure, relationships, religion, friendship and so many other things, they talk about these fake reality show that have scripts. Its kinda digusting that most of the american population dont know what goes on in the real world.

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i am a huge fan of the girl series, and was dissapointed when the whole thing was covered in one episode, the person who had the problem with her weight was a stick, and it was sorted out by a trip[ to the art gallery, which, in the book, actually fuels the whole thing!
They had a good opportuinity to get the whole problem accross to the younger generation, like myself, but they just wasted it.

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totally agree! I think the girls are okay actresses, but nothing at all like in the books! Also, anorexia should be covered more. I just did an IMBD search on the subject, and there is hardly anything!

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I'm not sure how they could have included it, without changing the characters. Or they could do it badly- i don't know whether you guys have seen it or not but that episode of lizzie mcguire where miranda skipped lunch one day and was then fainting because she was anorexic? but then everything was happy by the end of the ep.....

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I thought the lizzie episode actually was quite good, it showed how much pressure girls and boys in their teens are under these days and how pressure to be slim can take over your life. I thought the girls in love series focused too much on boys instead of the other problems like bulimia that Ellie has.

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the only "good" example from a tv show (that i can think of) was in "Degrassi: the next generation" when emma gets an eating disorder..coz it lasted for more that one episode lol

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Well, it might have been a bit awkward as Olivia Hallinan is very pretty and very thin. However, I agree, it is a plotline I would have liked to see. It might have made the series better.

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