World's Thinnest Woman Weighs FOUR STONES

Almost everyone of us wants to be beautiful, to feel beautiful. We want to be idolized and receive some compliments and that is where we find happiness and contentment. As what Marilyn Monroe said “All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.” 

Searching about Pro-Ana and Anorexia, I found an article I'm not going to teach young girls how to die': Frightening words of 4st anorexic who gets FAN MAIL because she's so thin and found out that Valeria Levitin holds the record for the WORLD'S THINNEST WOMAN and only weighs 56 pounds or basically, four stones. The said woman used to be a fat girl until she receives comment about her weight. From her classmates, until she decided to become a model and even when her mother restricted her about her diet and  grew up with a belief that she should be thin as what her mom said. From all those experiences, she managed to lose weight until she reached her condition right now. 


Anna Hodgekiss, the writer of the article, revealed in the record holder's interview that "Her illness has also made her life a very lonely one. Single for a decade, she says relationships are difficult as she is unable to do the normal things that couples do, as going to restaurants." Knowing this kind of thing would somehow let teenage girls realize the importance of health. It wouldn't be easy for a person to deal with this kind of situation.


For a situation like this, even a person wants to go back to the old lifestyle, they can't because their body can no longer tolerate it. The body is already used in such food that they have encountered for a long period of time that's why it can no longer accept food that is new to the body.

Because of her illness, her body can't afford to have a baby. Just imagine, how can a woman that only weighs four stones afford to have a baby if the body itself can't supply the right amount of nutrition? That is the bad side for being anorexic, she have to set aside her happiness which is to have a child, to her own family.


The surprising part here is that, the thinnest woman receives fan mails from young girls that wants her to give them tips on how to be thin like her. But the anorexic woman refuses to give them tips on how to die as what she said in her interview.


Letting young girls realize the bad side and disadvantages of being anorexic is the point of discussion in this article. Sharing her story to us may inspire most of us to become more aware of the increasing number of anorexia cases.


We should all be independent enough to decide for ourselves. Don't ever set your own happiness aside just because of doing things according to what others want us to do and what they want us to be. Don't let others control over your life if it is against your will.