Monday, March 26, 2007

Anorexia Chronicles: Is Allegra Back At It?

It’s no secret that Allegra Beck, heiress to a majority of the Versace fortune/company, has struggled with anorexia for some time. The camera shy-diva was always looking stick-thin in her teen years. In the recent Harper’s Bazaar spread featuring the mother-daughter duo of Donatella and Allegra (almost 21), everything seemed perfect in Versaceland. Allegra has been taking time off from Brown University to study acting, French, and art history at UCLA. She attends classes five days a week, stays updated on the family business and only goes to nightclubs occasionally. Her group of close friends doesn’t include lots of celebrities and she spends most of her weekends studying or riding her bike on the beach. She visits her mom and younger brother in Italy once a month. Oh and I must add that she's been looking rather anti-ana:Unfortunately, Women’s Day is reporting that Allegra is back down to a superskinny 70 pounds and has been forced to undergo treatment in a medical and psychiatric facility. Insiders say the 20-year-old's condition is so dire she's under 24-hour supervision and must be fed through a naso-gastric tube. So Sad! Part of me doesn't believe it. She's been looking SOOO good lately. Here are some old pics vs. new pics comparisons. Seriously, the clavicles on the right are perfection.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

No, hon. The only perfect clavicle is the one that doesn't show when you wear a low-cut shirt. Allegra was ill then and is worse now. Quit encouraging anorexia by pushing skeletal figures as appropriate!

Anonymous said...

She doesn't look sick in that picture. Yeah, shes still skinny, but that doesn't mean she's sickly. I have clavicles like that and I'm certainly not anorexic.

Anonymous said...

Someone sounds jealous that they don't have visible collar bones...

dino said...

this post was titled, "anorexia chronicles," and with that title comes an embedded message, "ANOREXIA IS BAD." rocket science? i think not.

xine said...

Nowhere in this blog do I push skeletal figures. In fact, if you read a lot of these columns, I push for bigger girls on the runway, the BMI cutoff for models, etc.

Everyone has a different body shape. "In some people, particularly females who may have less fat in this region, the location of the bone is clearly visible as it creates a bulge in the skin." Allegra is a tiny person even without the eating disorder so chances are that she’s going to have visible collarbone. In fact, no matter how much I weigh (and sometimes it’s more than I’d like), I always have visible collarbones and weird, bony shoulders. It’s just me – fat goes to other places but tends to stay away from my forearms, legs and shoulder region. When I said her clavicles look like perfection on the right, I was alluding to the fact that she looks much healthier than we’ve ever seen her and in no way meant that women need to have a visible collarbones to be attractive. Everyone cool now?

Anonymous said...

you totally need visible collarbones to be attractive and you know it xine

Anonymous said...

SOMEBODY GET THIS GIRL A HAMBURGER!!!

Anonymous said...

yeh