Angelina Jolie Speaks Out Against Eating Disorder Rumors
September 11th, 2007 by Rian | Filed under Celebrity Eating Disorders, Angelina Jolie.
^^^Angelina Jolie shopping on September 9th
Angelina Jolie has finally gotten sick of eating disorder rumors and has spoken out about it. According to this site, Angelina claims that her recent weight loss is due to stress and running around, not an eating disorder.
She said recently, “Yes of course I have lost weight. Some days are exhausting, only I’m not able to collapse. I believe in pushing myself to the limits.”
Sounds possible, but she has gotten very, very thin - almost emaciated.
What do you all think - is she telling the truth?
In the parlance of text-messaging that the kidz these days are into: IDK & IDC.
i think shes lying.
how many people are going to say, “yes, you’re right, im anorexic or bulimic etc”?!
Oh, and she looks like hell here. She’d better steer clear of the horses around Central Park, on her way to taking her kid to school. They might mistake it for their breakfast. Ugggh.
liar liar
It only takes a minute to hit up a drive-thru… she’s in need of a few big macs.
And she wants to adopt MORE children, At the rate she is going she will run herself into a nervous breakdown…….
For your kids Angie, EAT SOMETHING - Even if it is Fruits and Vegetables.
Yes, she is telling the truth. Women get manic, and lose weight. Sooner or later she will gain back ten pounds, and that will cause a lot of talk. Remember when Mischa Barton said she was going to give up smoking to gain some weight, and resented all the talk about starving herself?
she is working herself too hard with the kids and all the humanitarian work. take a break lady ! care for your health and don’t adopt just yet.
Don’t care. Maybe she will stress herself to death and we won’t have to hear about her publicity, I mean humanitarian acts.
i only hope those last pics of her in that dress were photoshopped.
she’s so gorgeous, but not as a skeleton…
How do we really know she’s not telling the truth. When I get run down and life gest chaotic I always lose a good 5-10 pounds. Some people’s bodies react to stress differently.
you just don’t lose weight by giving interviews or sitting at your desk or your private jet for hours while reading. even if its heavy stuff like humanitarian worksheets! she’s fat, a BIG FAT liar!
She is full of garbage, honestly she is the biggest lying celeb. around, she always has a ridiculous smirk on her face she has enough kids they are not a collection to keep adding more like that how absurd. YES, She does have an eating disorder, why else would she have an anorexic quote tattooed on her self? Yawn mystery solved.
Pushing self to limits? Okay. I’m pretty sure with the army of nannies she might have time to grab a sandwich between diaperings. N’est pas?
Damn right, Edan. She can even afford to have someone CHEW the damned thing for her.
Not all skinny people have an eating disorder. Stress, loosing someone you love, having kids etc. are things that can make you forget to eat, eat to little and so on. She might be telling the truth. When my dad died my mother lost alot of weight, she looked sick and unhealthy and got down to 80 lbs. It took years for her to gain again. Angelina has always been skinny, and I guess she’s just one of those who loose weight fast.
I’m not saying she might not have an ED, but it’s possible to be thin without being sick.
Maybe she’s in denial. I’m not saying she’s lying, but “pushing herself to the limits” can lead to an eating disorder…she doesn’t seem to realize that.
Split ends, could be a sign but she was always thin!
pill-popping super mom?
she has a problem….no one but her can know for sure ,but it doesn’t look good…
liar.
This pic tells the real story- she’s slowly killing herself and her overrated looks.
Just take a look at that hair–its nothin’ but straw!!
just because you’re not INTENTIONALLY STARVING yourself doesn’t mean your eating habits are healthy, reasonable or sane. If she really believed all the BS she puts out there she would take a year or two off from acting and focus only on her family, her health and her charity work…but no, she keeps signing up for movies and buying dresses to go to premiers and awards…ect
b*tch is lying. and she has some mental disorder she’s trying to cover up by aquiring a bunch of children. it’s obviously her “new” addiction.
she’s not even sleeping with brad anymore. poor guy (gorgeous)
she’s got anorexia and probably purges too. noone gets that thin without “working” for it. she looks gross. really.
Oh for God’s sake.
“I’m so wonderful and saintly and important that I just forgot to eat. If you were all as wonderful as I, you could be skinny, too. Oh, and by the way, if it keeps the cameras on me for an extra nanosecond, I’ll waste away to nothing but skin and hair. And if THAT stops working, I’ll steal someone elses’ husband, drink his blood and dress my children as chickens”.
Nut job.
LIAR. Life & Style reported she’s HOOKED ON DIET PILLS. i would believe that over what she’s saying any day. IMO she totally knows what she’s doing and it’s just one more form of self- destruction, which she seems to enjoy.
straw hair? i don’t see it.
I’ve heard the “running after the kids all the time” excuse for extreme weight loss before (Victoria Beckham has definitely used that one), and I’m not buying it.
I think she looks gorgeous as fuck here, she should keep the weight she’s at now.
she’s making an effort to avoid food by being so busy all the time. that’s how some people with eating disorders do it.
it doesn’t take a genius….
pushing your body to limit sounds like she only is eating small amounts of food to keep herself from passing out. i believe thats called anorexia.
Trust me, running around all day after kids can take the weight off you. Because you have to factor in less sleep and less time to eat your own self. And, her dad just died.
BUT, I totally don’t believe her. She is gorgeous and looks good slim, but even I think she is too thin at this point. I mean, those arms are disgusting! I can’t believe that she doesn’t have enough access to nannies to sit down at least once a day and eat something healthy…just like if you need to lose weight you cut out calories, if you need to gain ten {which she needs to gain at least 10} you add calories–a week of mashed potatoes, salmon and banannas would make her look a lot better. Surely she could do that.
Plus, once you start talking to the press to deny your eating disorder…uhhh, you have an eating disorder. Too bad, I really like her.
Suzy, you kill me.
What a selfish woman. If she’s telling the truth (which I doubt), then she’s apparently running herself ragged, despite the fact that she has FOUR children to look after. I have three children, and the oldest is three. I can get pretty run-down too, but I have enough sense to know that if I’m not looking after myself, I can’t look after anyone else properly either. The fact that Angelina Jolie is AWARE that she pushes herself to the limit (allegedly) just shows me how self-centered she really is. Mind you, I never did buy into the whole ‘philanthropist’ act she’s got going on right now anyway.
Jed- Some women “get” manic and loose weight..most don’t although I am sure many wish they did.
I think that she is lying. She didn’t say that she didn’t have one but just thats shes tired. While in School I ate about 400 calories per day and studied all day but kept pushing myself to keep going. I was EXHAUSTED all the time but I managed to remain standing so while she is not lying per say ==by saying she is exhausted, she is not being completely honest about ALL of the reasons behind her exhaustion!
i think she will bounce back. in my opinion she’s buring the candal at both ends & this is the effect its having on her.
Bee I’m curious about your comment
‘why else would she have an anorexic quote tattooed on her self? ‘
‘What is this tattoo?? I’ve never heard of it when they talk about her many tats.
As for my opinion, she clearly just wants to pretend nothings wrong. I agree with other comments that she’s replaced one addiction (really many past addictions) with others.. the kids, working non-stop despite saying she wld take time off to spend w/kids, brad her latest man addiction…
ugh…of course she’s not gonna say “oh yeah i got an ed btw..” pfft
I personally don’t think her issue is anorexia;
She probably has some deep emotional and mental
issues she hasn’t quite dealt with yet..she seems to
put too much on herself for some reason..she is
taking on too much because I guess that makes her
feel good about herself..but I don’t know if that is really
the real her…having Brad and all these kids…
I don’t see that all lasting..the relationship I mean..she will be stuck with the kids for life though..
I hope she does find peace and happiness, maybe she already is, but if not, may she find it.
Kelly, her tattoo on her stomach basically says (in Latin, I think): “What nourishes me also destroys me”
Supposedly that’s a motto for proanorexia or something. I don’t know if Angelina has an ED or what, but I hope she overcomes whatever it is that is causing her to waste away.
this industry is all about appearance.
Think about it…
She as an actrice knows that she is taken rolls that are, for a great deal, based on how one`s looking and how someone gets perceived.
She is obsessed with how she comes across, an emptyness to fill.
I guess we really won’t be able to know until she hits rock bottem, but I do agree that she’s starting to look emaciated.
Did you see her in VMA? Her legs were disgusting, she is still skeleton. I think she isn’t well.
of course she has an eating disorder….she has suffered with them in the past, even got a tattoo about anorexia..something to the notion of (in latin) “what nourishes me destroys me”. Lets put 2 nd 2 together ppl… she is emaciated, past ED sufferer, has ED quotes tattooed on her body…..hmmmm…….
I have 4 kids under the age of 5 (2 twins that are 2 yrs), no nanny (unlike her) work part-time and also babysitt 3 kids in my home… I still find time to nourish myself.
NO!
NOT TRUE!
IF SHE HAS THE TIME FOR MAKE UP, SHE CERTAINLY CAN FIND THE TIME TO EAT IF SHE WANTS/NEEDS TO!
why is she so skinny you all ask: DRUGS!!!
But it’s too hard for some people to see that a seemingly composed and sucessful woman and mother in her thirties might be losing her battle to drug addiction. there have been many recent reports alluding to angelina’s drug use.
Damn, what a crappy example this overrated twat is setting for her children. She is so full of shit. Brangelina has nannies, chefs, bodyguards, etc etc and she can’t find time to eat. CAN’T THEY EAT DINNER TOGETHER AS A FAMILY?
could be heroin.
I wouldn’t be suprised.
Sorry to inform you haters out there, but some people are really too easy to eat!!!! When I am in school I always loose weight…enough to make people worry even. Its not like I am not hungry, but my grades are too important, and frankly I rather slit my wrist then eat a big mac!! Not everyone who is skinny has an eating disorder. I am so sick of people hating on the thin.
I call bullshit, has anyone ever seen that tattoo she has ? Horrible excuse too.
She used to be gorgeous and now she’s so sickly.
She’s totally lying! She feeds all 4 of those kids of hers, right?!! Then, she can eat when they do too!
Oh yah, then how come brad isn’t ‘anorexic’ skinny Angelina???!!!
Maybe she’s telling the truth,she’s never had a problem admitting to anything “heroin has been close to me in my life” anyone?The woman doesn’t generally appear to care what people think of her,so to actually come out and say “i don’t have an eating disorder”,she may well not.however she looks terribly ill,and whatever the reason for the weightloss,i hope she sorts herself out and gets better
I suspect eating disorder, but rumour is she’s back on heroin - and she has admitted to heroin use in the past. Did she cut her hair because its thinning? Her hair looks shorter … And extremely dry/lifeless here and usually she has thick shiny beautiful hair.
“heroin has been close to me in my life” isnt admitting that shes done it, it could be others in her surroundings. This lady have a knack of confessing to things that is so shocking to the american puclic.
Anyone remember the whole”lesbian experience”? funny enough, its only in interviews she flashes her kinks, no one has ever seen her with a girlfriend, otherwise her carriere would dead. Hard for the audience to believe her roles as a sexgoddess if they know she prefers men.
I think shes full of it and I agree with Liese.
One might say “the bigger the emptyness, the greater the mystery”
I agree with causethisiswhyi’mhot said. She may not talk to the press very often, but when she does, I believe she tells the truth. She doesn’t care what people think.
And for whoever it was said ’she’s not even sleeping with Brad anymore’ - I’m so glad that you have intimate knowledge of their sexual habits, and you have chosen to share this exclusive knowledge with the rest of us.
I think what drives people crazy about these two is that they’re really not dramatic. They do their jobs and enjoy their family and do what is required of them ie red carpet to promote their films, but that’s about it. They’re private and pretty unremarkable really - which drives everyone into a frenzy of speculation.
I wouldn’t say I’m a fan particularly, but I think the haters are pretty vicious. Scary.
She could very well be telling the truth. When things are hectic I have to make a point of making sure I eat too or the pounds drop off. She has the money and the staff to take time out to eat, she should use them!
I believe her. If I had 4 kids and a demanding job, I wouldn’t have much time to eat either.
whoever said she looks great here is out of their mind!!! If she was not famous and you seen the woman pictured here on the street .. the first thing you’d think is “crack whore”!
whoever said she looks great here is out of their mind!!! If she was not famous and you seen the woman pictured here on the street .. the first thing you’d think is “crack w h o r e”!
Who knows? But in any case, I think she’s gotten too thin - unhealthy thin. She should try to take better care of herself.
you are all so jealous of angie!
Denial is not just a river in Egypt. It’s also a classic defense mechanism with anorexics. If it’s all because she’s pushing herself to the limit, why doesn’t she slow down and take care of herself for the sake of her family, if not herself?
She has the time to eat. If she is in such a hurry all the time, she could drink weight gaining shakes. That way she can drink her meals. They are nutritious, delicious and will put weight on. She is full of crap imo. She is emaciated and not attractive at all anymore,
She is SO open and honest about her mistakes in life, her self harm, her drug use, everything. So if she really had an eating disorder, she would come out and say it. You all are assuming the worst because that’s just what you want to hear so you can say you were right. Not everyone has an eating disorder, believe it or not, despite all those statistics.
yes
its a possiblity.
&& who are we to say shes lying?
but she isnt ‘almost’ emaciated,
SHE IS.
&& this could be just a form of denial like some others have said.
when i was deep in my ED i thought up the craziest things to tell ppl i didnt have one.
so who knows…
but i do know that she looks sick. she was such a sex bomb. now…not so much
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She looked so much better with dark hair and a little more meat on her bones…
sad.
Please.
She LIES!
Theres always enough time to grab abite- even if you’re eating it running out the door. I’ve heard people use that excuse for anorexia before anyway.
Theres no way someone could become as emaciated as she without active effort. I agree with the person earlier who said “pusing onself to their limits” sounds like and ED catch-phrase.
But most people deny an ED, so can’t really be surprised.
I think she’s fat.
Jodi….you were first and you didn’t call it????
I’m telling you guys….she only works out one part of her body….her lips!
prolly a bunch of bull. no way we can REALLY know but in my opinion its rare that this occurs solely from stress and stuff. and her comment on pushing herself to the limit is very much an anorexic mindset.
Yeah, Cossey. Don’t you admire my discipline?
I admire everything about you Jodi.
How do you turn down a big ol’, greasy cheeseburger??
I didn’t know she had a pro-ed tattoo on her arm. I didn’t know it said that. Wow. I think she really has an ED or else she’s on drugs.
De-nial is not a river in Egypt!
What a pathetic excuse! There are many working mothers of four, who still manage to find time to eat. Further, she would probably have a cleaner & chef to do her household chores, and cook her a meal, if she really wanted to eat…..She has a eating disorder for sure!
total liar. stress and being 2 busy 2 eat r the text book excuses for losing 2 much weight.
Angelina Jolie is one of the most beautiful woman and she looks great thin is whats in these days you really cant exspect “curvy” to be sexy its fucking nasty shit. people need to see that all that little extra is gross. skinny people are beautiful. And i think my opinion may stand for some other people as well.
didn’t she formerly have boobs?
boob loss=major indication of malnourishment
I’m probably the only one here who believes her but she is always running around those third-world countries helping the people out. You know damn well there are no Burger Kings around, so she might actually be telling the truth. She does need to gain some weight though to be a good role model for her children. Starving yourself while helping others isn’t really the way to go.
Isn’t it strange how all celebrity mothers claim that having a child makes them super skinny and yet in the real world - with all non celebrity mothers it has the complete opposite effect?
She sounds like another tedious anorexic in denial to me. Want to gain wait Angelina? Then eat.
Isn’t it sad that whenever a woman loses weight everybody cries out ED? There are so many reasons why you lose weight… it doesn’t necessarily have to be and eating disorder.
I remember when I lost weight en masse I could eat whatever I wanted (and I did! I stuffed myself) and I still lost weight… turned out that it was a symptom of a very serious illness and my doctor missed out on it (his words were “enjoy it while it lasts!”)
I for one can vouch after I had my daughter, I would forget to eat. Often. I went from a pre-preggers 135 to 165 and then whittled down to 118 within 3 months of delivery for SEVEN YEARS. And at 5′ 10″, it was very obvious. I moved and had to find a new gyno. She did not approve of my weight and even though I was celebate, she put me on Depo Provera to make me gain weight. On the bright side, I gained so much I became a fitness buff and I now exercise daily. I’m down to 145 but my body fat is in the low teens and I wear a size 6. In other words, yeah, I believe her.
I don’t think we can compare her past, public honesty with what’s going on today. Unless I am mistaken, she came out and talked about her drug use AFTER she stopped using. Plus, she has stated that since getting together with Brad she doesn’t experiment sexually either.
It’s much easier to admit you HAD a problem and have since changed then it is to admit that you are currently afflicted with one thing or the other.
Maybe she has an ed - maybe she doesn’t. But if we ever do hear of it, it won’t be until she is getting help or has already recovered.
I just love her no matter what! She is under stress from her mom dying especially. I like that she has tried just about all there is in her life, the good and the bad and that she is so open about it all. She has a good heart too. She even stole the girl next doors man. Such a vixen too, such a loving mother too…so many sides to her. And she is drop dead gorgeous!
she is quite emaciated - you don’t get tat way by running around - you get that way by not eating enough - of course she’s lying - she’s a nutter - don’t forget this “earth Mother” used to wear blood around her neck and make out with her brother
even if she’s not ‘consiously’ trying to lose weight… her condition still falls into eating disorder catagory in my opinion. She’s clearly anorexic, whether it’s deliberate or not. and I’m guessing that it probably is deliberate. it’s not that hard to stop and eat or eat and run. please.
You people are idiots she did not even say the above quote. It’s all fabricated. She lost all her weight when her mom died and she has said many times in the past she finds it hard to put weight on. She was only fuller in TR films because she bulked up but in a lot of pics she is naturally thin. Her mom’s death caused this and is just finding it hard to put the weight back on. You haters are pathetic nitpicking on every single thing this woman does.
i think she has an ed but doesn’t even realize it
Five years from now, when she’s still anorexic-looking, is she still going to be saying “Well, you know my Mom just died.”
Whether or not she has an eating disorder, she is way too skinny. I watched the video of her on TMZ where she is taking Maddox to school and has Zahara on her hip. I looked at her feet and legs as she was getting out of the car and thought, “yikes, they look like they could snap in half.” I don’t know where she finds the energy to keep up with her kids.
To paraphrase Mrs. Claus, “Eat, Angie, Eat!”
again: the difference between most moms and angelina as a mom is, that she has the eyes of the world on her, not as in paparazzi way, (well that too), but she works with her body for a living.
So you as a mom can forget to eat or by stress etc.
But she has to take care of herself. She thinks this is beautifull (my best parts are my arms>> look at the book she “wrote” on her so called projects. O and her projects involve nothing more than using her fame to bring attention to problems in third world countries. Again: she uses herself (nothing intellectually). There is nothing wrong with it, but the fact she uses the stress and mom thing is enough to prove she has an ED or better said: very obsessed with her appearance and how she comes across
im really sick of reading about blooming angelina and her weight. she is always speaking out about her weight and her reasons for being thin. if she is that unhappy about it she should just simply eat something. simple as that.
isnt it weird how its always the celebrities losing weight chasing after their kids? beckham, jolie, ripa…. think of all the normal women you know in the real world who also chase after kids without the help of a nanny or anyone, but maintain healthy weights with the stress of finacial woes on top of it all…its just a convenient excuse to cover up for her issues. so, her life is more stressful now, than it was with crazy billy bob? if she is losing that much weight from just life stress & kids she should take a good life at making some changes because thats not positive stress & a family & dream career should be happy things.
I think if you lose as much weight as she has, it doesn’t matter if it is caused by stress or being busy. If you don’t complete such a basic need despite the stress in your life it is an eating disorder, or at least disordered eating. Eating disorders are centered around life’s anxieties. Even if you aren’t overexercising, throwing up, taking drugs, or deliberately eating less, when life’s stressers cause you to compromise your nutrition, it is an eating disorder. A non-disordered eater, I think, would be able to meet their nutritional requirements despite the turmoil in their life. Perhaps for a certain amount of time diet my be affected, but to reach a state like she has without taking measures to remedy it is a sign of an eating disorder. It is if it is more noble have a hectic life and therefore be emaciated, as if it is any less of a problem because it wasn’t due to stereotypical eating disorder behaviors.
it makes total sense that she would be so busy that food isnt the first thing she thinks about
but it needs to be because she is looking very, very unhealthy
No way do I buy that. Not for a second. Part of the disease of anorexia is denial and lying. While she does have 4 children to care for, she also has a nanny for each. In addition, I highly doubt she is, on top of taking care of the children, cleaning the house, doing the laundry and cooking the meals. There are a TON of women who care for their children by themselves sans nannies, clean the house, cook the food, do the laundry, do the shopping, and on and on and on and they still manage to find time to eat. She better go peddle that line somewhere else ‘cuz I’m not buying it.
Umm… generally when one is capable of realizing that they have lost too much weight, it is also the time when one realizes that they should put down the adoption papers for the next orphan, stop taking on any movies or major humanitarian campaigns, stay put for a few months, and order in some DAMNED FOOD. It’s not rocket science.
Unless, you know, that person WANTS to be that thin.
Seriously: I wish I could sit this woman down and explain how, if she dies from being too thin, it is going to put a serious dent in her whole ‘Super Adoptive Humanitarian Earth Mother’ shtick.
i really don’t care.
I still believe her. And, I know ALOT of you are comparing that celebrity moms lose weight after they have kids while real moms don’t. Let’s compare:
Celebrity moms: 1. they HAVE to be thin for their job, so they HAVE to drop whatever weight they gained from the pregnancy and then some to keep working.
2. So many of these celebrity moms work from like whatever time at morning to whatever time at night. They have their show or movie, then magazine interviews, tv appearances…etc. So, running around all day maybe they don’t have the time to eat. If I have a busy day of running around, I sometimes forget to eat. You just can’t find the time sometimes….not using that as an excuse but seriously it happens.
Real moms: 1. they are not forced to lose weight in a set amount of time, so they don’t. they try and lose it naturally, which takes about a year or two…years…not months.
2. My friend that has 2 kids gets up at 7am and goes to bed around 9pm. That’s a set schedule. She’s not running around all day. She has time to eat meals w/ her family.
It’s so different between the two, so please stop comparing them. Also, common knowledge should tell you that all celebrities, moms or not are just thinner than most women in the world.
sorry so long.
she’s emaciated. she’s sick. maybe it’s her reaction to giving birth and seeing her body change, but something’s very wrong. i don’t know who is she trying to fool with all that stress talk denial thing.
I believe her. She may be a weirdo, but I don’t think she’s capable of being self absorbed enough to have an eating disorder.
the lady is indeed nasty. and I am not buying this b*sht about not eating. hey angie if you dont have time to run after your numerous kids its simple-dont adopt them!
anyhow, angie is a perfect publicity sl*t and I love her to bits but one must be a bit of a thick head not to see through her lies… the things she has admitted are as carefully planned and executed as lohan’s “rehabilitations”. saying “I had problems with heroin” in the non-defined past is very different from saying “I shoot between my toes twice per day when Brad my man-p*ssy feeds the kids” as probably happens in reality.
also her so-called le sbian affairs as another commenter stated already were some nice lipstick lez stories with equally stunning woman (jenny shimizu) and very very glam editorial undertones (nothing like real butch girls or lets say britney spears)
same thing about her other “shockers”-her putative affair with her brother. again a light story for glossy magazines-nothing like hillbilly inbreds less appealing to the eye.
she is a beautiful woman but she’s not cleverer than Sach! :p
for a long time the weight lose was not showin in her face, because of her cheek implants. they kind of kept her face filled out. now it has taken its toll and she looks downright frightening. her body is scary skinny. the tabloids and fans just feed her problems by blaming her emaciation on every reason except for the obvious. angelina has mental issues and feeds on addictions. she is sick and needs help. if she really loved those children she would get help. she will either die young or raise children who think life revolves around being skinny.
shes just stressed. i get thinner when im really busy.
cheeck implants?!?!?!?!?!?
omg!!
she is so phony. In one quote she said she isn’t trying to be thin to fit into skinny jeans. I have seen her in many skinny jeans , she is such a liar. She has a ED. People with eating disorders are in denial
‘In the parlance of text-messaging that the kidz these days are into: IDK & IDC.’ PMSL, sweetly put Jodi
Lately she seems to me to look a little better.
I’m anorexic and I use the same stories.
And look at her hair… you can see the bones in her face… look at old pictures of her and you’ll see. We see pictures of these people every day so we don’t notice the changes that drastically, but if you look at photos of her from 2 or 3 years ago, you’ll see how much more curvy she used to be.
she looks like shit no matter what it is. but i say anorexia. we already know shes a cutter. most cutters have e.d.
she is full of it!
I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well.