Before Zara McDermott appeared on Love Island, she had a healthy relationship with food and exercise.
The eating disorder charity Beat says disordered eating - a term used to describe eating difficulties that don’t require a clinical diagnosis - is “becoming more common” and can often be the first signs of someone developing an eating disorder. Presenter and influencer Zara McDermott looks at the rise of disordered eating for a new BBC Three documentary.
Zara was posting things like before-and-after weight loss pictures and documenting what she ate in a day. She says, at the time, that she didn’t understand the impact her content could be having on her millions of followers. “I found myself getting more and more obsessive with it,” Milly says. “I think I’ve done it every day for the last year and a half, maybe two years. Every single day.”
She was calorie counting, cutting out entire food groups and doing more and more exercise, causing her to lose weight. Lauren’s disordered eating eventually progressed into a clinically-diagnosed eating disorder,Lauren’s parents eventually told her they were worried about her weight loss and by May 2022 she was admitted to an in-patient hospital, where she’s been ever since, being treated for anorexia.
Tom says that while social media does not cause disordered eating or eating disorders, “it can exacerbate symptoms for someone who is unwell or contribute to eating problems for someone who is already vulnerable”.
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