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Dying to Be Thin ("Nova" Dying to Be Thin) (2000)

Starring
Kate Dillon Kate Dillon
Self / plus sized model
Cynthia Gibb Cynthia Gibb
Karen Carpenter
Eleena Melamed Eleena Melamed
Self / dancer at the American Ballet Company
Susan Sarandon Susan Sarandon
Self - Narrator


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Description: Anorexia Nervosa and bulimia and our nation's obsession with the perfect body are analyzed by experts and those who have been inflicted with eating disorders. The heartbreaking story of a young girl and ballet dancers who obsess over their bodies is still relevant today. Young girls and even boys have become fixated on their bodies to obsession and even to the disease of anorexia nervosa and bulimia. There have been television movies and Karen Carpenter's tragic death as a result in 1982 brought attention to the disease. The Nova episode would be ideal for showing in middle and high schools especially for both students of bot ... (more)
Release date: 12 December 2000
Tags: Medical (1), Documentary (1), Educational (1), Ballet (1), Ballerina (1), Anorexia (1), Pbs (1), Bulimia (1), Eating Disorders (1), Eating Disorder (1), Anorexia Nervosa (1), Nova (1)
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