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Natalia Dyer has anorexia


this is something that needs to be addressed. ban her from the show until she gets her life sorted out.

https://i.imgur.com/OWPsUag.jpg

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I was super thin when I was a teenager too, yet I would eat whole pizzas in one sitting. Kids have high metabolisms.

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It's unfortunate so many female actors are judged first on their bodies and only second on their talent.

I knew a girl back in college who was very thin, and even looked a bit like Natalia Dyer, but she wasn't anorexic. She just had a minor condition whose name I can't recall that boils down to a very high basal metabolic rate. She would eat like crazy, and go back for seconds at the sundae bar - lots and lots of chocolate syrup and candy on that ice cream - but remained skinny as a rail. She was the perfect example imo of the grass is always greener. Almost everyone else would kill to have her problem. Dammit, I'm eating twelve thousand calories a day and I don't gain weight!

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I agree.

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I think it's obvious she has/had an eating disorder. Season 1 was painful to watch her onscreen because she looked so unhealthy. Sunken in face and eyes, her skin looked dry, hair looked dry. She had that sunken in look around her mouth, a sign of eating disorder. She has a bobble head and her bones protrude from her arms and chest. In her older films, she has a lot more weight.

I've worked with people who have anorexia and I say she struggles with an eating disorder as she displays many of the symptoms.

She seems to be going down a bad path, especially since she's with the Heaton guy who got busted for cocaine.

She is a good actress though, so hopefully she gets the held she needs.

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You’re an idiot, she’s not a criminal, she just possibly has a mental illness...maybe she needs support, but defiantly doesn’t need to be banned from acting in a show because she is very skinny and maybe anorexic...that is the dumbest thing...I hope anyone with an eating disorder doesn’t have to ever deal with someone like you.

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her life is in danger. wouldn't u ban somebody if they were using heroin? same thing.

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So you’re saying an uncontrollable mental illness is the same as drug abuse/ addiction? This is an old comment so I hope you’ve changed your opinion on this. You sort your life out.

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I mean at a certain point drug addiction is also uncontrollable and some would also consider it a mental illness or at least a symptom of one. I hope you’ve changed your opinion on drug addiction as it can also be genetic just as mental illness can, and just as you hope they change their mind on mental illness I hope you can change your view on the abuse of drugs. I think yes if someone has a serious or deadly mental illness that is at a certain point slowly killing them then they should be at a certain point forced to get help. Of course banning them could also prove to send them deeper into whatever mental illness they have and the same could be said for drug addiction. Which is why for drug addiction there is sometimes forced and court ordered rehabs because that person is affecting society. People with mental illness a lot of times keep to themselves so there would be no reason for a court ordered therapist lol. And I’m not talking on Natalia whatsoever because we have no idea if she’s anorexic or not. She could literally just have a high metabolism, or be sick, or just literally be that skinny it’s none of our business

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this is vile , anorexia is a hard thing to deal with! It is so sad that’s he is getting judged on her body and being told to STOP HER CAREER because of it. Never tell anyone to “get their life together” because they are skinny and you have jumped to the conclusion she had an eating dissent. They are hard things to deal with and it’s not something you can stop because it’s a mental illness not eating drains your energy and stopped you body from functioning I think it’s disgusting how someone is telling her to get her life together!!! We have no idea what she is going through and it could be nothing so let her tell everyone in her own time not anyone else’s.

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