As far as tasteless Halloween costumes go, it doesn’t get much worse than the sexy skeleton get-up “Anna Rexia,” the copy for which reads, “You can never be too rich or too thin,” whatever that means. For only $39.99, plus shipping, you get the dress, headband, choker neckband, removable “Anna Rexia” badge, ribbon tie belt, and no sense of shame.
One woman (hopefully of many, although the costume is “currently out of stock”) who won’t be buying one is Jessi Davin, a 26-year-old anorexia survivor who finds “NOTHING cute about this.” But if you really want to dress up as “Anna Rexia,” she has some suggestions:
-Four years of hospitalization
-A nasogastric feeding tube because you’ve starved yourself so much that your body doesn’t recognize food as a good thing and tries to attack itself
-Re-Feeding Syndrome, which can kill you
-Emotional struggles for years
-A father crying and pleading on his knees begging for you to get help
-A mother who cries every time she sees you because you look and SMELL like death.
-Holidays missed, birthdays crying in a hospital.
-Almost every major organ in your body failing.
-A shower chair – because you can’t stand in the shower because you’re too weak and the warm water could make you pass out.
-A wheelchair, because you are too weak to walk and it could make you go into cardiac arrest.
-A lifetime of medications for anxiety and the health issues “Anna Rexia” caused.
-Plenty of money for multiple ER trips due to “Anna Rexia” even in recovery.
-And if you don’t get help like I do, or even if you do, a coffin. Because I’ve lost more friends to this eating disorder then anything I’ve ever faced. (Via Shart-Nado)
“Want to dress as ‘Anna Rexia’?” Davin asked. “Just go as a vampire, or a zombie. Because 1/3 of us are dead.” There’s more at her Tumblr, Shart-Nado, which is a great Halloween costume idea. Do that instead. (Via Shart-Nado)
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