Anorexia Articles

Enveloped in black and shooting a tough-girl glare, Christina Ricci is the very picture of confidence on the cover of October's BlackBook magazine . But as the accompanying interview proves, appearances can be deceiving. Ricci , who was photographed by Yu Tsai

WITH children as young as six now developing anorexia, how do we stop young girls – and a growing number of boys – obsessing about their weight? Rachel Carlyle investigates. At the age of nine, all that worried me was whether ice-skating Sindy would be sol

A public school pupil who died after anorexia “ravaged” her body was failed by the health system, her family said today. Anna Wood, 16, embarked on a harmless post-Christmas diet to shed a few pounds but was soon caught in the grip of the eating disorder.

When Anna Wood said she was joining her mother on a post-Christmas diet, they expected to lose a few pounds then carry on life as normal. But within months the grade-A student at an independent school was caught in the grip of a terrible eating disorder. Her b

When Harriet Brown’s 14-year-old stopped eating, she and her family went on the attack. Brown, hungry for answers, researched and implemented a nontraditional approach to fighting anorexia called family-based therapy, a journey that Brown chronicles in her n