Entry #4

Tyra Banks mentioned the different type of eating disorder such as anorexia, bulimia, and chronic exercise. These are eating disorders that are harmful for women to undertake to received their desire body image. As society is getting more evolve we see different more cases of eating disorder occurred. In this video Tyra Banks introduced Cassie who is 5'4'' and weight 85 lbs when the average weight for her is 125 lbs, yet to her that's 85 lbs too much. " I'm too fat to be here" Cassie said. That comment leave the audiences speechless because in reality when we look at her we probably thinking on how thin she is, but when she looked at her own reflection she only see how fat she is. Cassie who is suffered extreme dieting created a rule that it isn't acceptable for her if she consumed more than 15 calories. The psychologist mentioned that her early childhood of being burned can be one of the underlying causes of her eating disorder because eating disorder occurred when we search for the needs to be in control or the need of feeling safe. Therefore Cassie's early childhood trauma of being burn left scars on her body, but what even worst is that it left a memory of the pain that she has to suffered as a young child, therefore controlling her diet is a way for her to protect herself. At the end of the video when Tyra offered treatment to help her battle with her eating disorder; Cassie make a comment that she think she doesn't need it, but there are people out there with worst condition. In her opinion her case isn't as severe compared to others condition and it isn't harming her physical body.