Anorexia in a world without food

Anyone who familiar with my last posts will probably look at this and think why is the girl who writes the puff pieces that have me laughing into my earl grey tackling this?

It’s a subject that’s rather close to home actually for me I believe the best way to start this post is to tell you all in RL I am a recovering eating disorder patient I wont go into the full details. Hearing my Sap story isn’t what this is about.

Second style recently published a blog on the shape of avis in SL, the majority of metaverse residents are 6 ft about a size –2 and blonde. Healthy.

http://blog.secondstyle.com/2007/09/no-anorexia-second-life.html

I cant go on other people accounts and I doubt second life had a lot to do with the beginning of my illness but I do think that seeing my avi (we all now she used to need fairly good meal) is highly likely to have no helped. Seeing an entire race of people who its and oddity to be short, or unfounded to be anything over a UK size 10.

I don’t know were we can go from here I do know that all our avis need to start having a more healthy image, id love to think in a few months time we’d have a more open minded grid with someone like swirly cyclone leading a “ Prim Food for all” campaign.

You might call me a hypocrite my avi is still very thin, but you would be amazed at how many people are affected by something like an eating disorder in there lives. I’m thin I’ve always been thin. Even now the validation from typing that gives me a buzz. How ever that hasn’t stopped me from putting myself and my loved ones through hell.

The RL fashion industry is far too big to tackle the issue in second life we have created the fashion industry its not to late to change peoples outlooks. We need and industry that’s about clothes and how when you put on a certain outfit you become who you want to be, not about looking ill, And I honestly don’t know who’s brave enough to make the first move towards it.

Marni

xx