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Olin hyvin yllättynyt, kun törmäsin Daily Mailissa artikkeliin, jossa eräs lempinäyttelijöistäni, Diane Keaton, kertoo uusinta muistelmakirjaansa mainostaessaan myös kärsineensä bulimiasta nuoruudessaan. Kuinka usein sitä kuvitteleekaan, ettei "sen- ja senlainen" ihminen VOI olla mitään muuta kuin itse täydellisyys. Diane Keaton, herttiset - hänkin on vain ihminen ! En toivo kenellekään minkäänlaista syömishäiriötä, en pahimmalle vihamiehellenikään - mutta kuinka lohdullista tavallaan olikaan lukea tämä artikkeli ja todeta, että nämä ongelmat ovat universaaleja riippumatta ihmisen statuksesta, ammatista ja maallisesta mammonasta. Miten herkkiä me ihmiset olemmekaan, miten haavoittuvaisia.
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I was bulimic for a short while when I was in my teens. I don't remember exactly how long it went on, not for too long I think - but I do remember those less than wonderful moments spent crouching over the toilet in our little restroom, vomiting whatever huge amounts of food I had just eaten. Afterwards my throat hurt and I was ridden with guilt and shame, but that didn't stop me from doing the whole thing again the next day. I've no idea why or how I managed to stop binging and burging after a relatively short time -I don't think it lasted more than maybe couple of months- but I'm sincerely happy it ended when it did. Having said that, I've never learned to approach food with a healthy, nonchalant attitude after all these years - and I honestly, I don't think I ever will.
I was truly surprised when I bumped into this article about Diane Keaton in Daily Mail. She's always been one of my favorite actresses and she just seems so, you know, together. Her (second, third ?) memoir is coming out soon and she's doing interviews to advertize the book, hence this interview - and here she opens up about here struggles with bulimia in her younger days. Isn't it fascinating how we often look at other people and think how perfect they must be, how completely out of reach from, say, eating disorders ? I mean, Diane Keaton ! I absolutely do not wish any eating disorders for anyone, not even my worst enemy - but somehow it was very comforting to find out that even Ms Keaton has had her fair share of this struggle - and has come out in the other side as a survivor. Interesting to me is also her comparison to addiction and about an addictive personality - rings a bell with me too.
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If there's an actress in Hollywood without an eating disorder I would doubt it. They all have something they do to stay that thin- I mean really they live for their bodies and the rest of us just can't live that way. Many of them exercise themselves into oblivion and the rest of them smoke or have liposuction or take pills or starve themselves or all of the above. It's the rare (dead?) person who is naturally thin in this society- at least to the extent those folk are because what you see on screen is not how they really look- they're thinner.
ReplyDeleteIt must be a nightmarish existence for sure, and it is sad that this society puts so much pressure on people, especially women (and all the more actresses and actors), to look certain way and to weigh certain amount. I wish no fellow human being the suffering these disorders bring with them, they are all-consuming even at the level where I am personally (the occasional BED, yet always, always thinking about what I have eaten or what I can still eat any given day - and measuring my self-worth by how I've succeeded).
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