When did Victoria start with anorexia?

[DannyDirnt]

Hi! I was wondering when did Victoria start getting skinnier because of anorexia or decide to lose weight because I just see videos of Spiceworld Tour 1998 and she looks normal but she's already really skinny in Earls Court 1999. And also, has she already beaten it? Because she looks more normal now.

[Toefje]

Anorexia is a serious illness... the term gets used too easily.

Victoria is just thin.

[artziboi]

Anorexia is a serious illness... the term gets used too easily.

Victoria is just thin.

I love how every fan now comes here and starts to say how Victoria looks "normal" and not anorexic at all. While Victoria tells she "eats SOOOO MUCH"....And what she eats "alot" would be alot for a parrot.

As for the answer to your question, she became very thin after her first child when she got rid of the baby weight. And she went to very very thin to more healthy to again very thin from 1999 to these days. Glad she looked better on Olympics tho!





I'm glad you think this is normal and JUST THIN. Because for sure she would say if she had eating disorder...

And don't throw "Everyone gets bad photos taken" card on me people, because these pictures aren't even the worst ones.

[kittie]

Didn't she somewhere admit that she had anorexia?

[FrankTB]

she said in Learning To Fly that after Brooklyn was born she became a bit obsessed about food and would know by heart how many calories any food had, so she believes she had some kind of eating disorder back then, but then again, it's not like she's looked much fuller all those years so..
many people think she's looking better now and curvier, tbh i think it's only a matter of what she's wearing, some dresses show some more skin (bones) some others cover her more so it may look as if she's more curvy..i personally think she's been pretty much the same weight during the last few years

[breezyspice]

Although Victoria has had unhealthy periods in her life (which I do believe she herself has referenced in the past) I don't entirely think its fair to use media photos as examples as even if already quite thin, I think they are all still doctored and exaggerated.

Its a bit of a soft spot for me because I personally changed my diet and exercise habits and lost every bit of fat on my body - I'm not as toned and defined as Victoria, but I do believe some people are naturally thin and they combat trying to keep weight on and not look frail and gaunt to everyone else (what I'm currently dealing with and am upset about).

Its very fine line but I can see both sides of it. I feel like someone else I love (Keira Knightley) is also criticized for this. I eat more often and more different things now than I ever have - its all healthy and it gets burned off. I don't know what to say other than if they also don't intake a lot of sugar/gluten, cut out caffeine/fast food/red meat, and eat a shitload of fruit, veggies, poultry and fish - and exercise to some degree - it makes sense to me how they're small if they're built they way they are and are naturally inclined to be skinny if healthy.

If someone is unhealthy, that is something else entirely, but I don't feel like we should judge, especially from photos. Love and support peeps, love and support.

Ugh, I DO sound like a granola. (Tree hugger)

[Poshboy78]

I think she's naturally think and post-pregnancies emphasize this.
She eats healthly and tries to keep fit, that's it.
Health issues like anorexia and eating disorders are different things: at the end of the day she has four children and has never suffered particular diseases during her life.

[mel2vicem]

Yeah, anorexia requires rehab, hospital treatment, and believe me if she had sought treatment we would have known about it. Anorexia can also cause infertility, she has had 4 healthy babies....The doctor in Madrid told the press after the birth of Cruz that she is in perfect health.

Yes, we all know and she said herself that the weight fell a lot after she had Brooklyn. No one here is saying she is normal weight for the average woman.

I think her hairstyle changes her whole appearance too.

[Heather]

If you don't know her personally you really can't comment on her habits. You only see a snippet of her life. She is obviously healthy. If she wasn't she wouldn't have four babies that she carried to term and delivered at healthy weights. Your fertility is the first thing that goes wonky when you are not taking care of yourself. She's thin yes,she is maybe a little too controlling of her food (judging by the snippet we see but who really knows) but she's not sick so I guess it works for her.

[IER]

I think they only period of her life where she actually was sick (call it whatever you want) was 1999-2000 where she was REALLY thing and obsessed with food.

By the time she released her album she was thin but not in an unhealthy way. And I guess that, after she gave birth to Romeo she has been healthy. Like Heather said, if she really wasn't healthy she wouldn't have had more kids and she would've been worse and worse each day. But she has gained weight in every pregnancy, and she has looked more fuller when her projects needed it (like the Spice Girls tour). Between 2002 and 2012 I think that the times where she has looked skinnier than usual have been periods of her life where she has been under so much pressure because of her work and such things.

And I agree with Michael, she looks "fuller" when she has long hair and skinnier when she has short hair. Just becasue you can see her chest bones doesn't mean she's anorexic. You can see my chest bones quite easily too and I'm healthy.

[Thom]

i wouldn't call it anorexia but she does have an obsession with food/diet
we know she hardly eats anythings and works out

i hate her for the fact she laid it down to giving birth to Brooklyn when it was so obvious not

[Heather]

i wouldn't call it anorexia but she does have an obsession with food/diet
we know she hardly eats anythings and works out

i hate her for the fact she laid it down to giving birth to Brooklyn when it was so obvious not

but it could have been. She supposedly has PCOS and it's been widely stated that having a baby can get rid of PCOS symptoms perhaps she is meant to be thin but PCOS made her bigger. Once that was controlled you see a thinner her. You only have to look at her immediate family to see that being thin is genetic too. I know her sister is bigger blah blah blah but she is still very thin and so is her mom.

[artziboi]

i wouldn't call it anorexia but she does have an obsession with food/diet

Whenever there is so called issues with food, it's some kind of eating disorder. It can have bunch of different symptoms and most of the time it's not straight out of the book-type of eating disorder. For example people who have ortorexia, could have symptoms of anorexia too and people who have bulimia could have symptoms of anorexia etc.

Yeah, anorexia requires rehab, hospital treatment, and believe me if she had sought treatment we would have known about it. Anorexia can also cause infertility.

Anorexia at it's worse could need rehab, hospital or psychiatric treatments but many don't apply to them for the shame. Also, the severe symptoms usually get by easily in the eyes of others and don't cause any "alarm". Also, quite easily people show up the "stress" cards or the "Hollywood" cards but it's not always just that.

I couldn't know 100% but she's admitted problems before and as of her working in fashion industry and being incredibly self conscious, it would be pretty clear she is still struggeling with her weight and her body issues. It's a life-long battle. Melanie C and Geri know all about it.

[Toefje]

Anorexia is a serious illness... the term gets used too easily.

Victoria is just thin.

I love how every fan now comes here and starts to say how Victoria looks "normal" and not anorexic at all. While Victoria tells she "eats SOOOO MUCH"....And what she eats "alot" would be alot for a parrot.

As for the answer to your question, she became very thin after her first child when she got rid of the baby weight. And she went to very very thin to more healthy to again very thin from 1999 to these days. Glad she looked better on Olympics tho!


And don't throw "Everyone gets bad photos taken" card on me people, because these pictures aren't even the worst ones.

Yes shes thin and she'd look better if she gained some weight. But that doesnt mean you are anorexic.

[DannyDirnt]

As for the answer to your question, she became very thin after her first child when she got rid of the baby weight. And she went to very very thin to more healthy to again very thin from 1999 to these days. Glad she looked better on Olympics tho!

Thanks for answering!

And man, she totally is anorexic. There's no ways he could be THAT think otherwise, though in the Olympics she did look just thin. Also, there's no way she could have lost so much weight in only a year. I've had some disorders too and all I can say is that even witht hat I lost 6kg (like 13lbs or so, I think) in one year (that considering I had to grow, I was 14). I think she may have beaten her disorders because she looks much better and healthier now.

[mel2vicem]

We all know she is a control freak, she probably could relax a bit but she clearly does eat the right amount of everything. Anorexia is when you stop eating, if Victoria starved herself with her lifestyle she would be in hospital within weeks.

[baharat]

She seems better now because she goes to the gym

[PopIsHot]

She looks healthy to me.

[RainbowNerdette]

As for the answer to your question, she became very thin after her first child when she got rid of the baby weight. And she went to very very thin to more healthy to again very thin from 1999 to these days. Glad she looked better on Olympics tho!

Thanks for answering!

And man, she totally is anorexic. There's no ways he could be THAT think otherwise, though in the Olympics she did look just thin. Also, there's no way she could have lost so much weight in only a year. I've had some disorders too and all I can say is that even witht hat I lost 6kg (like 13lbs or so, I think) in one year (that considering I had to grow, I was 14). I think she may have beaten her disorders because she looks much better and healthier now.

OY! I've been that skinny for YEARS! So it is possible... But I do think she should eat a bit more

[artziboi]

We all know she is a control freak, she probably could relax a bit but she clearly does eat the right amount of everything. Anorexia is when you stop eating, if Victoria starved herself with her lifestyle she would be in hospital within weeks.

Anorexia isn't just about stopping eating. It's about eating as little as possible. The point isn't to starve to death most of the time but to remain skinny at any cause or diet that takes there. Also, as I said previously she might have symptoms of ortorexia that is also quite common, where people are overly strickt about their diet and eat as healthily as possible to the extreme.

Also, Victoria WASN'T naturally that skinny. So that is another bullshit thingy people throw in.

[herman22j]

We all know she is a control freak, she probably could relax a bit but she clearly does eat the right amount of everything. Anorexia is when you stop eating, if Victoria starved herself with her lifestyle she would be in hospital within weeks.

Anorexia isn't just about stopping eating. It's about eating as little as possible. The point isn't to starve to death most of the time but to remain skinny at any cause or diet that takes there. Also, as I said previously she might have symptoms of ortorexia that is also quite common, where people are overly strickt about their diet and eat as healthily as possible to the extreme.

Also, Victoria WASN'T naturally that skinny. So that is another bullshit thingy people throw in.

Well said! Naturally skinny is way different! In the spice days or before that she was quite chubby!

BTW due illness i lost 8kg! I'm only 1.73m and my weight was 53kg. But my body wasn't near Victoria. I had to be like 45kg to have a body like that. That's not being skinny but anorexia

[Toefje]

lol you are a man

[RainbowNerdette]

lol you are a man

Indeed! Fat distribution is SO different on a woman, it's why I never dig a dragqueen, no matter how gorgeous

I'm 1.76 (according to my passport, I think I'm actually an inch shorter irl ) and I used to be 48 kg, been at that for years and couldn't gain a pound *gained ~20 now though* you could totally see my clavicles/ribs, not as extremely as with Victoria at her skinniest though.

[blackilicious]

Oh Come on people, she was "normal " from 1996 to 1998.
Since then, she's been sick!

[Vomiting Porpoise]

victoria is not anorexia she said in her book she has polyspastic ovary syndrome its awful poor cow deserves your respect not ridicule i wish her all the best x