BetteDavisEyes
Fasten your seatbelts...
- Joined
- Mar 4, 2010
- Messages
- 35,368
- Reaction score
- 79,054
'Sexy Anorexia' Halloween Costume Controversy
Costume Features Measuring Tape Ribbon Belt, Skeleton-Print Bodysuit
By Katie McLaughlinCNN
POSTED: Friday, October 7, 2011
UPDATED: 7:55 am EDT October 7, 2011
(CNN) -- It's hard to imagine a deadly disorder being translated into a Halloween costume, let alone a sexy Halloween costume. Just when you thought it couldn't get any more inappropriate than sexy Cookie Monster, a costume has come along that reaches a whole new level of just plain wrong.
Anna Rexia.
The Anna Rexia costume features a black bodysuit style dress with a glittery, silk-screened skeleton print, bone headband, heart name tag, measuring tape ribbon belt, and the most shocking accessory of all -- a matching measuring tape choker! We're not sure if the costume manufacturer intended for the choker to be a pun.
Critics say the costume makes a joke out of a deadly eating disorder. According to the National Eating Disorders Association, anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Up to 10 million females and one million males in the U.S. suffer from diseases such as bulimia and anorexia nervosa...
http://www.clickondetroit.com/halloween/29415398/detail.html
Costume Features Measuring Tape Ribbon Belt, Skeleton-Print Bodysuit
By Katie McLaughlinCNN
POSTED: Friday, October 7, 2011
UPDATED: 7:55 am EDT October 7, 2011
(CNN) -- It's hard to imagine a deadly disorder being translated into a Halloween costume, let alone a sexy Halloween costume. Just when you thought it couldn't get any more inappropriate than sexy Cookie Monster, a costume has come along that reaches a whole new level of just plain wrong.
Anna Rexia.
The Anna Rexia costume features a black bodysuit style dress with a glittery, silk-screened skeleton print, bone headband, heart name tag, measuring tape ribbon belt, and the most shocking accessory of all -- a matching measuring tape choker! We're not sure if the costume manufacturer intended for the choker to be a pun.
Critics say the costume makes a joke out of a deadly eating disorder. According to the National Eating Disorders Association, anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Up to 10 million females and one million males in the U.S. suffer from diseases such as bulimia and anorexia nervosa...
http://www.clickondetroit.com/halloween/29415398/detail.html