Life & Style: Mary-Kate Looks Anorexic Again
May 18th, 2007 by Rian | Filed under Mary Kate Olsen, Tabloid Magazines.
I can’t believe that Life & Style is dredging up old photos from 2005 to compare to Mary-Kate’s current skinniness. But they are in this article.
Anyone who has been paying attention to Mary-Kate over the past year or two knows that she has been pretty skinny for quite some time now. She probably fluctuates 5 or so pounds just like the rest of us. But as recent photos have suggested, she isn’t skeletal.
Click here to read the article.
What do you all think - is she “relapsing”?
MK is always going to be on the border of being too thin - its a shame cus she is really beautiful! She’s definately lost some weight since coming out of rehab - but thats normal for people who have been treated for an eating disorder. Let’s just hope she doesn’t get sucked in by the illness again x
i have seen recent pics of her at perezhilton
and she seems to be realapsing,l i guess a lifetime of attemting to recover ensues
it must be tiring to date someone with such issues
i am just happy ashley has seen sense, whatever mary-kate choses to do is her problem
*attempting
very unintersting in my opinion..I can not understand why these two sisters are still famous..the do nothing..just like Nicole, Paris and a few others..
i can see her CHEST BONES
I believe that the anorexic picture is old
I think that photo is either old, or completely photoshopped, she is clearly not as skeletal as before in 2004. Also, in the before photo in 2005, she did not weigh 95lbs, she was reported at about 110 lbs, at the time she just got out of rehab and was very healthy. This is completely bogus, I believe she’s around 95-98 lbs now.
There are tons of current pics of her out there and I would say she is definatly relapsing.
I swear the title of the article gets me….Anorexic AGAIN….ummmm once you have it-YOU will probably always have to deal with Anorexic! Stupid to ask if she is or isnt again by looking at pic of her!
Sondra beat me to it.
And one does not “get” anorexia.
You develop anorexia, you have anorexia, you are anorexic.
Once an addict, always an addict…same applies in her case.
I think I know what alot of girls’ problem is: they crave the slim facial profile and losing weight gives you that cute cheekbony face but at a cost….. the rest of your body becomes way too emaciated.
I do think with Mary Kate it is anoxeria (as opposed to extreme dieting like Kirsten Dunst). She just needs support.
I just don’t understand why people cannot accept what they have. If Mary Kate put on a couple pounds more you would not notice it on her face but her body would just fill out that bit more and she’d look less srcawny.
I have accepted that no matter how low I get my face is still plump-ish!!!
Umm am I missing something here? She never recovered from her anorexia!
She is MAYBE 5 pounds more than she was at her thinnest.
It bothers me when people say Nicole Richie and MK are ‘recovered’…they clearly are not healthy yet.
I should have been a bit more on the issue with the earlier comment- yes, it looks as though something has triggered that weight loss. I hope the poor litlle sweetie can work her way through it.
She’s always been tiny and adorable. Any of the little fluctuations that most people have are immediately obvious. She looks okay, IMO. A little on the thin side, but that’ll change, I’m sure.
she is defintily relapsing without a doubt..
As everyone else said.
She has had anorexia this whole time, I just think right now shes falling a little bit more then usual.
Anyway She has always been an unhealthy weight but in those pics she doesnt look far from her 2004 body.
I cant believe some people say she was 98 pounds before.. She is tiny.
People dont get how much weight the camera puts on and plus shes only 5 feet tall with small bone structure.
I really think the worlds opinion on what is too small, too big or emaciated has been warped.
Mary-kate will most likely always be thin and of course flucuate her weight. You don’t ever “get rid” of an eating disorder..she will live with that the rest of her life. Her recovery is finding a way to deal with her ED in healthy ways and sometimes she may not want to deal with it in a healthy way, so she will most likely relapse. It will happen the rest of her life. That heading just really irks me “Anorexic Again?” it’s like saying she caught some disease again or something!
She’s not anorexic AGAIN…she has ALWAYS been anorexic…or at least it just hasn’t gone away! Just because she’s gained a few pounds, doesn’t mean she was ‘cured…’
relapsing?
Nothing new, she has always been this way. There is just no cure for her. You don’t cure from anorexia if you gain weight. I know I haven’t! Haunts me and affects me everyday, it’s been 2 years as well.
shes wonderful.. thank you so much for posting this on her, i was really hoping you’d do a mk update soon.
i like how she is right now, but I like her at any weight. I am partial to skeletal tho.
That MK is once again “too thin” is old news. And like everyone else, I take issue with the headline “Anorexic Again.” Give the editor who came up with that one a prize for the best catchy, aliterative phrase of the year. *eyeroll* It just perpetuates the notion that once someone with anorexia has put on a few pounds, they are “recovered.” Hardly.
shes def not 85 lbs shes more like 95lbs now im 5′2 and been 85lbs and i looked far skinner i looked reallly sik whereas she just looks kinda petite plus shes not 5′2 shes only bout 5ft she said herself on oprah winfrey
IT IS NOT ALWAYS ABOUT vanity. Damn it!
To those of you who don’t understand this…do some research…I think you’ll find that our motivations are many. I’d be willing to bet that vanity is not at the top of MOST of our lists as reasons to lose weight.
Is this on sale on newsstands yet? Can anybody answer that? Please?
The date on the cover says May 31, 2007 (from what I can see), and as it’s only the 18th, I’m not sure if it’s out yet.
too bad starving won’t make her pretty.
ive been ‘recovered’ for four years but i’m not. i still think about it. i still worry about it. i still plan around it. but i cope with it. ive came to the conclusion that it will haunt me forever and all i can do is minimize it.
i can’t believe people think she weighs 95 lbs! have you seen her legs? i’m taller than her and at 95 lbs i was WAY bigger than her, her legs are like twigs. she’s probably 90-92 lbs at the VERY most.
I think she looks the same size in both pictures, you just can’t see the ever-so-attractive chest bones in the “before” picture because the dress covers them. Nice try Life & Style.
SickCycleCarousel, this issue was on newsstands this past Monday or Tuesday (May 14th) - that’s when I bought it. They always date the magazines in advance for some reason.
Hey Mee- there is no way she was 110 when she got out of rehab. I’m 5′2″ with a very small frame so I have some sense of it, and she couldn’t have been more than 102, max, when she got out. if even that much.
I think she has relapsed for sure. When your sternum is sticking out, its a sure indication she is starving herself again.
it’s not a matter of again for crying out loud.. once anorexic, always anorexic. She’s basically just slipped back and fell off the food wagon… it’s much like an alcoholic.. once an alkie, always an alkie.
it annoys me how they say “anorexic again” like she can pick and choose when she wants to be anorexic. this magazine is completely clueless about this disease. theres no point in having articles like this because this disease isn’t going to go away for mary-kate for a while.
she looks great, im jealous!
i love mk
randomn question–are mk and ashley still attending nyu as full time students? I know its summer now, so no classes, but i’m asking in general–or has MK dropped out more or less?
She’s fine….she barely put on any weight when she ‘recovered’ and nothings changed. If you want to see an olsen at a healthy weight look at ashley
they’re just doing it to sell more mags
this article is ridiculous!
journalism at (almost) its worse! everyone knows mk’s skinny and they all do articles on her ‘anorexia?’ every week, i’d much rather’ve seen a story about her dress! i think she looks gorgeous!
when she got out of rehab, she reportedly weighed 95 lbs. I remember this because there was some “debate” as to whether she was there long enough, whether 10 lbs was enough, etc. If she is 5′2″, 95 lbs would give her a BMI of approximately 17.4, just below the diagnostic “threshold” for anorexia (17.5). Given that she has a very small frame, it’s completely plausible that she *was* 95 lbs at the time of discharge, and perhaps 5 - 10 lbs more than that in 2005 when she was applauded for looking so “healthy” (5 - 10 lbs may not sound like much, but it can go a long way on someone of small stature and bone structure). Given all that, I would not put her current weight above 90 lbs - and possibly far less than that.
I do not believe either of them are attending any school right now. MK dropped out first and Ash kept going for a while, but I think Ash stopped too and now they just mainly work on their Dual Star company and attend fashion shows.
also, people, its been well established now that she cannot be anorexic again, she just always was, will be, all that jazz. so lets stop declaring it in every post. please?
she looks fine to me, shes so pretty.
I think she relapsed a while ago. She’s a sorry case and none of her friends probably give a damn about her health. Some life to have.
she has never recovered, thus this is not a relapse. she was at most 5 pounds heavier. and i think she has been emaciated for like months now.
she has more than 95% of the world population will ever have millions of kids kids die from malaria , malnutrition, poverty etc around the world
there is a war in iraq with soldiers and hundreds of civilians dying
kids i went to secondary school with who cant afford to go university and poor little rich girl mk cant get herself to eat??
urh who cares?
once you are anorexic you deal with it for the rest of your life. it never just goes away. and being that shes famous i’m sure she’ll never pack on the pounds. she’ll probably go up and down a few lbs for the rest of her life and will always have to deal with it. i feel horrible that she is put in magazines like that. poor girl.
If you were never “cured” how can you relapse????I mean really after rehab did she really gain ANY significant weight, maybe 10 pounds and she was supposed to gain WAY MORE then that
YOU CAN’T RELAPSE IF YOU HAVEN’T RECOVERED! Recovery from an eating disorder takes years (average 5-10), so it’s no surprise that MK still struggles! I hate how the media portray rehab/recovery- as if 30 days in a sheltered little rehab paradise is going to wipe away years of issues for celebs. It’s not that simple. They still have lots of recovering to do AFTER they leave treatment.
“she has more than 95% of the world population will ever have” -95%? More like 99.8%
I agree that MK and her super-skinny celeb ilk are spoiled beyond most people’s wildest dreams -BUT- I don’t think that fact should be used to diminish her suffering. Eating disorders do cut across the socio-economic stratus, which is why mental health parity is such a huge issue. The problem isn’t that MK is anorexic and won’t get the help that she *clearly* can afford; the problem is that the media and society at large pay too much attention to the lives of celebrities…yes, perhaps I am a hypocrite for saying this on “The Skinny Website”, but FWIW I keep myself well informed as to what’s really going on in the world (ie, the NYT, Washington Post, New Yorker, NPR…)
-End tangent-
I think its clear that we all agree these tabloids are such crap!
The writers must have dropped out of highschool
she never recovered if you ask me, she looks like she lost around 5 or so pounds
“anorexic again”?
come on people, get real!
s a former anorexic girl, i’m wondering how on earth this art icle is helping her. she is probably all the more paranoid now. i’m sureshe was tryign to forget about the past and now here the media is digging up those old pictures of her emaciated self.
There is always the chance that she never had true Anorexia to begin with… some reports say that Mary Kate had gone into rehab for drug use, not an eating disorder.
I agree with Rian, MK’s problem is mostly due to drug use.
I really wanted to buy this magazine but it went off the stands before I got a chance. I was wondering if there was anyone who bought a copy that would be willing to sell it to me.
And BTW-it was anorexia, not drug use. It’s known that she has a nutrition and a counselor, people to help her eat more healthily. She recently fired her nutritionist, which is leading people to speculate that she’s “anorexic again.”
first of all, i think that there is a good chance that her weight loss is due to drugs, not all anorexia. That being said, sometimes drug use goes hand in hand with anorexia because of how drugs supress your hunger. i think in either case, drugs or an ed, she never got better, so this comes as no suprise. maybe if people just left her alone she could deal with whatever her problems really are.
Is EVERYBODY here that gullible? First of all, it’s a life & style TABLOID (aka BS). Secondly, there is no way MK weighs 85 lbs in that picture. I’d say at LEAST 95, probably a little more. The second pic has clearly been photoshoped. Look at her arms in both pictures, they look exactly the same. Only the area that the caption points out looks skinny, thanks to the wonders of photo-editing. I’m not saying she’s not too thin, she is. But I don’t think she’s lost that much (if any) weight since she came out of rehab. Take this stuff with a grain of salt, folks.
life and style should be everyone’s source of reality. like you know? like. fer ser.
why does anyone care about this it won’t affect your life unless you’re her family now will it?
Anorexia is a really serious illness.İt takes so many times to get over I guess.So it is natural for mary kate to lose much weight sometimes.I hope she can defeat this terrible illness…
I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well.