Jane Fonda talks about Bulimia and Body Image
Verfasst: So Aug 07, 2011 14:52
73 year-old actress Jane Fonda recently opened up to Harper’s Bazaar about her troubled past with body image issues and eating disorders – here’s what she has to say:
Body image, the 1950s, and Henry Fonda: “I was raised in the ’50s,” she explains. “I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly. He was a good man, and I was mad for him, but he sent messages to me that fathers should not send: Unless you look perfect, you’re not going to be loved.”
She was a fanatic for exercise, and she battled bulimia for decades: “I wasn’t very happy from, I would say, puberty to 50? It took me a long time. It was in my 40s, and if you suffer from bulimia, the older you get, the worse it gets. It takes longer to recover from a bout. I had a career, I was winning awards, I was supporting nonprofits, I had a family.” One day she just stopped. “I had to make a choice: I live or I die.” She refocused, trying to “fill that empty space with something.” Then came the workouts. “Gloria Steinem said empowerment begins in the muscles.”
Vanities: “I’m vain. My arms are thin, but I’m vain about loose flesh. And so I’m careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.” That said, “I have people in my life who will say, ‘Honey, you’re trying too hard.’ I like being saucy, but I’m 73 and a half. I’m still trying to find my way between matronly and coltishness. Colt, not cult: C-O-L-T.”
… says Jane.
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aus einem anderen Interview mit Oprah Winfrey:
When did you stop the bulimia? I read that you stopped at age 36.
JF: Yeah.
O: What was that like?
JF: It was like hell. No one quite understands what causes it. And I think some people are more prone to it than others, but it had something to do with living a lie. Not being authentic. Faking it. It's like becoming a woman and then rejecting it. Like alcoholism, it's a disease of denial. And the problem - which you don't realize in the beginning - it that it's just as addictive as a drug.
O: Which is hard for people to understand. We al think that you can stop yourself from throwing up.
JF: It's very difficult. I saw myself going down a dark hole, and I had two children, and I was making a difference in the world, and I had to make a choice between the light and the dark. Life and death. And I chose life. I stopped cold turkey. I don't advice everybody to do that, but I did.But it was years before I could sit at a meal without feeling anxious.
O: I would imagine that every time you saw food, you would feel anxious. Because how could you do this and keep it a secret?
JF: I think I liked on apple peels and the crust of bread, because if I went any further into the food, there'd be no stopping. So that's what caused the anxiety - I preferred to not even be around food.
O: This started when you were 12?
JF: No, I learned it in boarding school, the way a lot of girls did. But it was mostly when I became an actress at 21. There was the pressure to be thin - and I was a model.
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Hab das grad eher zufällig gefunden, wusste gar nicht, dass sie Bulimie hatte.
Body image, the 1950s, and Henry Fonda: “I was raised in the ’50s,” she explains. “I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered, frankly. He was a good man, and I was mad for him, but he sent messages to me that fathers should not send: Unless you look perfect, you’re not going to be loved.”
She was a fanatic for exercise, and she battled bulimia for decades: “I wasn’t very happy from, I would say, puberty to 50? It took me a long time. It was in my 40s, and if you suffer from bulimia, the older you get, the worse it gets. It takes longer to recover from a bout. I had a career, I was winning awards, I was supporting nonprofits, I had a family.” One day she just stopped. “I had to make a choice: I live or I die.” She refocused, trying to “fill that empty space with something.” Then came the workouts. “Gloria Steinem said empowerment begins in the muscles.”
Vanities: “I’m vain. My arms are thin, but I’m vain about loose flesh. And so I’m careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.” That said, “I have people in my life who will say, ‘Honey, you’re trying too hard.’ I like being saucy, but I’m 73 and a half. I’m still trying to find my way between matronly and coltishness. Colt, not cult: C-O-L-T.”
… says Jane.
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aus einem anderen Interview mit Oprah Winfrey:
When did you stop the bulimia? I read that you stopped at age 36.
JF: Yeah.
O: What was that like?
JF: It was like hell. No one quite understands what causes it. And I think some people are more prone to it than others, but it had something to do with living a lie. Not being authentic. Faking it. It's like becoming a woman and then rejecting it. Like alcoholism, it's a disease of denial. And the problem - which you don't realize in the beginning - it that it's just as addictive as a drug.
O: Which is hard for people to understand. We al think that you can stop yourself from throwing up.
JF: It's very difficult. I saw myself going down a dark hole, and I had two children, and I was making a difference in the world, and I had to make a choice between the light and the dark. Life and death. And I chose life. I stopped cold turkey. I don't advice everybody to do that, but I did.But it was years before I could sit at a meal without feeling anxious.
O: I would imagine that every time you saw food, you would feel anxious. Because how could you do this and keep it a secret?
JF: I think I liked on apple peels and the crust of bread, because if I went any further into the food, there'd be no stopping. So that's what caused the anxiety - I preferred to not even be around food.
O: This started when you were 12?
JF: No, I learned it in boarding school, the way a lot of girls did. But it was mostly when I became an actress at 21. There was the pressure to be thin - and I was a model.
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Hab das grad eher zufällig gefunden, wusste gar nicht, dass sie Bulimie hatte.
), die hatte evtl. den Zwang zum Geldverdienen udn "Funktionieren" nicht so wie unsereins.
Sorry (schäm dich, olle...), EMMA ist und war das "Kampfblatt" von Alice Schwarzer, Vorkämpferin der Emanzipation in Deutschland ab den frühen Sechzigern und bis heute efrauzipatorisch an der vordersten Front (sie tingelte erst jüngst durch die Talkshows, als es um den Kachelmannprozess ging und sie mehr oder weniger unhinterfragt unser wetterfröschle pauschalvorverurteilend als den Täter und die mutmaßlich v*rg*wa*ig* als das Opfer darstellte, nur weil diese eine Frau war. Jedenfalls hatte Frau Schwarzer die Frau Fonda schon damals auf dem Kieker (aus meiner Sicht nicht ganz zu Unrecht!!), als ab Mitte der 80er das Thema Bulimie erstmals durch die Medien aufkam und Fonda gleichzeitig jottwididelditü ihren Aerobichype in Amerika verbreitete. Sie war damals lt. Schwarzer Vorbild für Tausende Bulimie- und Magersuchts"karrieren" und tat selbst so, als wär sie schlichtweg nur ein Fitnesswunder. ÄTZ. Bei meinem Umzug vor 5 Wochen hab ich grad noch ein Buch von der späten Fonda wütend in die Altpapiertonne gepfeffert (mach ich sonst nie, ehrlich!!! 
), Titel irgendwie in die Richtung "die Frau ab 40" (jo), Untertitel "die starke, selbstbewusste Frau". Dieser Titel war wieder mal eine Mogelpackung, Titelfoto zeigte F. dezent von der Seite mit dekorativ windverwirbelten Haaren und äußerst dezenten Dekor-Fältchen. Inhalt - lief letztlich doch wieder darauf hinaus: Wie bleibe ich AUCH IM ALTER 
fit und SCHLANK (wieso zum Teufel darf ich nicht mit jenseits der 40 ENDLICH AUCH MAL UNSTRAFFER AUSSEHEN??? BIN ICH FROH, WENN ICH ENDLICH 50 bin!!!) Beim Anblick der Fotos dazu fühlte ich mich wie in einer Zeitschleife: F. mit jugendicher Frisur und FIGUR im schlangenhautengen Sportdress hupfdohlenhaft herumturnend und natürlich einzelne Fotos von "damals". KEIN wort (kritisches erst gar nicht) über ihr damaliges offenbar selbstzerstörerisches Verhalten und ihre Esspraktiken. Jetzt spät zur bulimischen Erkenntnis gereift - na ja. Sie ist mit ihrem Fitnesswahn jedenfalls Mehrfachmlillionärin geworden.
liegt an der Zeitschleife. 
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