[candygirl]

From someone who graduated with a B.S. in Family and Child studies and has studied about eating disorders, I believe that Ellyse's eating behaviors suggest that she may have a problem. I'm not saying that she definitely has aneroxia or bullimia but she does show signs of maladaptive behavior that would make one think that she has a eating disorder. Her eating habits are wierd. One minute she's eating oatmeal and a blow pop and the next minute she's scarffing down pasta. Her reasoning for doing these things are because she feels that she has something to prove. If she didn't have some sort of a problem there would be no reason for her to try and prove anything to the other ladies or Tyra. Obviously she feels that her secret is exposed and she has to try and cover up the skeletons(no pun intened) that have come out.

Just because her boyfriend doesn't know, doesn't mean that she doesn't have a problem. Many women hide these things from their families and their loved ones for years.

Bottom line Ellyse has a problem. It may not be diagnosed as aneroxia or bullimia but she has an eating problem none the less. Her eating habits are maladaptive and simply unhealthy.

Leslie:

Creative editing doesn't mean anything when you have a whole house of women saying that the girl doesn't eat.

Your statement about being in a modeling competition poses a problem for me. Why should you care what people think about your eating habits? You should eat what you want to eat when you want to eat it. That's the problem, women are so self-absorbed with the way the look that they would forgo their health so that they don't look like a pig on television. Who cares?