"Fasting girls" was a term used in the Victorian era for young girls who claimed to survive without consuming any food. They were regarded as miraculous, a curiosity, companies rushed to exhibit them. Many cases of these fasting girls appeared in the 19th century, several became famous.
It makes me wonder how the attitude toward anorexia/eating disorders changed so drastically, from "miracle" to "disease".
Maybe we should have lived during the Victorian era.
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Ah, how times have changed.
ReplyDeleteI wish people would see me as miraculous, instead of messed up. :\
Why is food so important now?
It was not back then!
I wish people would leave us Anas alone and let us do what we wish, instead of trying to shove food down our throats!
Ugh!
Ah, did not mean to go on a rant, there. -_-
Fasting girls are so elegant.
I want to be like them. :D
Hang in there and stay strong, love! <3
I would have liked to have lived back then anyways. Lucky ducks.
ReplyDeleteThings were better back then! That goes for everything going on and not just that. I would have loved to live in that time. Do bad we live in this shitty time. but who knows, trends come and go, maybe it will be a miracle again one of these days since a lot of people are overweight and the percentiles are only incresing
ReplyDeleteOne thing is for sure. The world is much for food oriented now. I guess anyone that doesn't eat like a fatass has a disease.
ReplyDeleteYes, Victorian girls starved because they thought it was a way of proving their virtue. The appetite for food was linked to the sexual appetite and if a girl was weighty or enjoyed eating, she was instantly branded a whore. Fun times, eh?!
ReplyDeleteThank fuck for the 60's and the sexual revolution! Twiggy made us socially acceptable! Groovy Baby, yeah! Pity we're now seen as 'diseased'! <3. XXX.
I wish i would have lived back then. Women were eating so much less than now and it was considered good when they were thin.
ReplyDeleteNowadays people tell you you're too thin even if you're not and try to make you eat crappy food - they never tell you to eat something healthy, they always want you to eat hamburgers or sandwiches. I just hate it.
Basically i've know i was born into a wrong time period since i heard old english speech and their dresses.
ReplyDeletewhy oh why was i born 200 years late.
Elle
more often then not i feel as though i was born in the wrong decade, wrong century, or even the wrong era
ReplyDeletethis is just one more reason
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ReplyDeleteand can you imagine how amazing they would have looked in those Victorian dresses?
ReplyDeletei wanr to read the book fasting girls. im too lazy though /:
ReplyDeletewow, thats actually super interesting. i think pretty much any female envies a girl who has enough control over themselves that they can fast. Even though they dont say so.
ReplyDeleteThat's soo interesting...wow
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