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Yummy Mummy author battled bulimia
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Sarah Gilbert enlightened us
to the term "Yummy Mummy"
last year, the gist being Yummy Mummies are not frumpy and haggard mothers, they're hip women walking their 3-inch
heels through motherhood.Liz Fraser has written a guidebook for you if you'd like to be a Yummy Mummy (this term nauseates me almost as much as the term Mommy Blogger does). The 'Yummy Mummy's Survival Guide' walks you through the adjustment to motherhood, stylishly.
Ironically, Liz Fraser tells The Independent, she has struggled with the eating disorder, bulimia during and after both her pregnancies. As the author of her profile points out, Fraser seems entirely unaware of the tie in of the Yummy Mummy ideal and her eating disorder.
The book doesn't advise taking on disordered eating habits to lose weight and actually encourages new mothers not to lose weight too quickly as it could release toxins into breastmilk. But it's hard for me to take the book seriously when being a Yummy Mummy already seems so tied to the intense pressure to lose weight and look as if you're not a new mother when you are.
Then again there's nothing wrong with taking care of yourself after you have children. Just don't take it to the extreme, where eating disorders find fertile grounds to take hold.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
3-14-2006 @ 1:10PM
Dori said...It may seem like an obvious link to make: that someone who writes a book about being a stylish mum and who also battles bulimia should be aware of some sort of dangerous connection between the two. I don't believe this is necessarily the case at all. For one, I'd bet my bottom dollar that Fraser did not just happen to develop bulimia during pregnancy. My guess is that the disease long preceded her maternity.
Even if I am wrong, I do know this for a fact: I personally battled an obsessive-compulsive eating disorder for most of my teenage years and into my early 20s. At the same time, I dressed to hide myself. It was only after I developed a healthy attitude about my body and food and exercise that I really was able to fully appreciate the importance of looking and feeling good about my personal appearance. This point was never clearer to me than after I had my children--I did not want to disappear behind the wall of mommydom in a pair of khakis and a baggy sweatshirt.
There are mothers I know who struggle with weight and eating issues--some of them take the "I don't care" attitude about personal style and some of them don't. It's an easy but specious logic to connect the two so closely. That said, it's an interesting point to debate further.
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3-14-2006 @ 1:24PM
MamaChristy said...I can't stand that TV show on Discovery Health. It's so... wrong and unreal.
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3-14-2006 @ 1:49PM
Jen said...Yummy Mummy? Ick. That phrase totally sounds like some bad jr high clique, only with lactation.
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3-14-2006 @ 2:03PM
MelissaS said...Dori, yes, if you read the article you'll see she did struggle with the disorder before having children.
I guess my correlation is between the pressure to be thin and not look like you just gave birth when you did.
I myself had anorexia and know it is not simply a disorder of weight. It's control and power and compulsion as well.
However, I still think there is a strong correlation between the pressure to be thin, be the best, be sexy and eating disorders.
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