This whole pro-ana mumbo jumbo is quite interesting, considering that last year, in places like Italy and Spain, certain bodies governing the fashion industry banned unhealthily thin models
(1) (2).
FYI,
jezebel.com, smorgasbord of women's culture, showed up at Fashion Week last year in NYC and handed out barf bags across from the venue
(3). A satirical, yet blunt statement about how ridiculously cliché the skeletally-thin model archetype has become.
What does fixating on a particular physical attribute within our selves or other say about our state of mind?