Anorexia Nervosa is a serious disease and no laughing matter.
Those poking fun at the misery and suffering of this poor lady should be ashamed of themselves.
No one's laughing directly at her. We rip everyone here with equality and without boarders. Don't sweat it too much, bro. It would be very rude of us to not pick on one particular group and leave them out in the cold. <3
On a serious level, my mom was anorexic and growing up watching her suffer was confusing and thought provoking. I thought it was normal to eat corn flakes or a little bit of lettuce out of a tiny measuring cup all the time. She was always clutching her cup and counting calories. I even developed a weird relationship with food and felt a lot of guilt when eating, because I developed an irrational ideas that eating would take food away from my family and it brought on lots of shame.
Thankfully it can also be conquered with the right medical intervention and family support. If you take out the emotional component that the person in inevitably suffering with, it really kicks AN's ass. Early intervention can be extremely successful, but with adults, AN can also be brutal. Some people have strong negative connotations that can creep back into their lives and they can relapse with ease, but others like my mom look back and wonder how they ever had such a struggle. She eats completely normal now and doesn't give a fuck what she eats because she's got amazing genetics and never should have had to diet at any point in her life. It was purely psychological. A small bout of stress and unfortunate circumstances led her to developing AN, despite never being within a thousand miles of being fat.
I watched a lot of my mom's friends die because of AN (usually a complication like depression, drug use and/or suicide) but a lot of her friends are all really healthy and successful now. It's tough to imagine someone dying from not eating in North America, especially when social determinants like their social status, wealth and education are all normal. But some people simply don't seek treatment or aren't compliant with treatment and those habits become ingrained too deeply. I didn't find out until later in life, but most of those women I knew with AN commit suicide or died from complications like ketoacidosis, organ failure, etc. Even on their death bed they'd muster up just enough strength to pull out IV and feeding tubes because they didn't like the way it made their body look and feel, and then they'd die. A bitter and unforgiving mental disease right until the last moments. Must have been torture for their families to feel so helpless.
