why is anorexia popular among teens?

I doubt if any Anorexics would be considering the "popularity" of this condition..They have developed a poor self image of themselves as being "Fat" regardless of how thin and wasted they actually look to someone else,continually striving to lose more weight or controlling their intake..it can take a lot of help to get them to get to a normal weight for their frame and metabolism,assuming they don't harm themselves to the point it's too late..

In the U.S. it is partially because of our societies view of the "perfect body" being pushed in our faces so often. All our models are thin, most of our celebrities including singers and actresses/actors are skinny. If you're fat, you are considered lazy, a slob, gross, ect. If you dont look like the models and celebrities then you are considered ugly. on the other hand, its about control. A lot of people who have eating disorders don't have a lot of control over what happens in their lives, so they control what goes in and out of their bodies.

From what I heard, it is something to do with body image and most of all, those who were skinny when they were young - not like me who was stocky. So when they get older and gain just a little weight, they think they are fat unlike people like me who do not think they are fat when they eat too much.

I think anorexia has more to do with attitudes towards food taught to the sufferer from a very young age in the family, than trying to get stick thin. Most anorexics know they are too thin yet can't help starving themselves, even though they'd love to stop. It's like an addiction. Lots of anorexics will look to the idea of fashion and beauty being thinness, but I also think that is a sideline of anorexia rather than it's true cause and has more to do with the concept of what the anorexic perceives to be perfection than thinness.

Anorexia is considered a mental illness. If it seems irrational to you that someone would stop eating, then that is because it is. Someone who is anorexic is not necessarily in their right and sane mind. Part of it may have something to do with society warping minds and portraying thin as beautiful, but not every young woman goes down that path simply because of society. They probably have suffered some other form of abuse that leads them to the irrational behavior of starving themselves.

What you just said that is the answer. Life as has truned to a women should be talk, think, with blond hair most of the time. That if a women isn't think then she isn't good looking. Which isn't true your body is built to be a certain way and a women should be proud of it. It's not really society buts some of it is also the media because that is what they want people to see. A women can be natural think and smart or she can be with some curves as I like to call with a brain. You don't need to mistreat your body to be healthy and happy with how you are. A lot of teens think that a lot of models or celebrities do things like that but not all some respect there bodies. No I don't know anyone that is anorex or belmic.

It is a mental problem that some people have and it is so sad I think. These people with anorexia the ones who are very badly anorexic usually have a problem where no matter how skinny they are they just see fat when they look in the mirror. I feel bad for them. Some die because of it. I think a lot of it is caused by our society thinking everyone has to be so thin like models. Most the of the models anymore are too skinny as well and look disgusting to me but thats what the industry requires is them to be that skinny. I went through stages where I stopped eating so I could be thin. But I love food to much go through that for very long. I still hate the way I look but I know I have to eat. So I try to just eat healthy and exercise more to improve how I look.