PrettyThin

I have been getting a lot of emails about abuses going on in chat. I have hidden one of the chatrooms for which I have no moderation capabilities. I have also made a change to the chatroom linked at the bottom of the site. You can now only chat with Friends. This will make it easy for you to have a discussion with people without worrying about hurtful people getting in the way.

If this isn't working, please let me know?

Also, keep on submitting moderator suggestions. I will get back to this in a couple days.

Final note. Ever Google search the word "Beauty?"
A cosmetic store comes up as the first link. Does anyone else think that maybe we should change that?

I wanted to thank everyone for their contributions in the forums, by email, and by private messages about the last topic of bulimia. I don't have an answer yet. I think it will take a little time to bridge the gap as well as internalize all that was shared. But I do humbly thank you.

Today I wanted to encourage everyone to read the Terms of Use for this website. It also links to Privacy Tips. I am writing and updating them based on questions and concerns that have come from different members, and like everything else, I am sure this will change over time as well as I get more comments from you. Please keep them coming.

I am also creating a section for frequently asked questions, such as "why can't I upload pictures" or "where di my album go" as well as the not too common but still "how do I delete my account."

This weekend is going to be busy, so hopefully right after.

Stay Beautiful,
Zander

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September 24, 2009

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Zander

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UPDATE: How do you add photos to this site? Just become a member and go to the Member Photos or any other Pics page. Click Add Photos and you can upload pictures to existing albums, or create your own.

Updated:
I have received a lot of notices from people about someone attempting to ruin the community that we have here. 

 It's not difficult to ruin someone's day; it's not difficult to ruin a community. What IS difficult is keeping a community together. Understanding that you as an individual are an important part of a collective, but in the end, just part and not the whole.

Are you seeing disturbing comments? Seeing things that just hurt or bother you? Please do the following:

1 - Do not respond back. Don't feel the fuel of hurt and hate or the words that disturb. Don't add words to which a response can be given in hopes of causing more problems.

2 - Flag the post so that I can remove them.

Do these two, and the problem will go away...

Stay Beautiful,
Zander

This site is taking on a new direction. For over a year now, this site has been about thinspiration, and a location for those choosing to take the Ana lifestyle upon themselves.

Pretty Thin is going to be about beauty. We will ask the question of "what is beauty" and allow everyone to contribute and find inspiration and meaning in the ways in which everyone defines beauty. We will not point fingers; we will not define beauty based on weight of height or color; we will allow you to see what people find beautiful, and allow you to gaze upon whatever you find to be beautiful.

Want to help contribute? Sign up for a free membership. This will allow you to create a profile (if you like), add images, contribute to the forum, and help build this site that now strives to share the many ways in which people define beauty.

This is not about you; this is not about me; this is about a world at peace with what they find beautiful.

My name is Jess and im 16. Ive been ana for about 2 years,im 5"3/5"4 and weight has fluctuated between 89lb and 115lb, thats just while ive had ana, before that i was heavier. Unlike alot of people one day i woke up and decided i needed to lose weight and to do that i decided that i had to NOT eat, and so i didnt, i fasted for 7 weeks, and was very ill, i told my parents that it was because i was ill, i told them that i had no appetite, which was kind of true, i was so determined not to eat that i had convinced myself that i had no appetite, eventually i was hospitalized, again convincing my parents that it was because of my illness, although the doctors were less easy to persuade, i was put on an IV and fed through a tube until i was coached back into eating, i remember trying to eat a yoghurt and throwing up, i was pissed off that i was in hospital being made FAT but i was pleased that my body wasnt accepting food, eventually my body started to absorb the food, and allowed me to eat, i wasnt happy one bit though! after that i kept my food to a minimum for a while - mainly because that was all my body allowd me to eat, but after a while, i started eating more and feeling gulty and purging, i liked that, eating and so family werent stressed and then purging all the crap back up. Id go on fasts though, keeping my weight down although it was hard as i had to go an see a phsychiatris all the time and a pediatrition regularly too, but never once would i let them weigh me, theyd mention scales and i would just burst into tears, and that got round that! i gradually put on weight for a while and then fasted for a few weeks and lost it all and kept it off for a while and then put it back on as i got into my binging, purging routine again and then id go on a fats and lose it and again keep it off for a while, maybe even longer but then suddenly put it back on, i hate gaining, makes you feel so depressed, im a cutter and have been for a short while, i did stop for a few months, and tried to be happy and content with my self, but i realised that it wasnt possible, i love cutting, it takes my pain away, i would never advice any one to cut though, its not something you do for fun its something your head makes you do, you dont really no what your doing when your doing it.

Deep down, i know that anorexia nervosa is a disease, a mental illness, i dont like believing that, but i know its true, it isnt something that you can decide to have, its like saying, hey i think ill have cancer tomorrow, like i said, its just not possible, there are however many contributing factors, but nothing solid that doctors can say:if this happened to you as a child then youll be anorexic at the age of 14 - it just doesnt work like that!

Making my website is in no way or means trying to make people ana, and ana is not to be thought of as a diet, it is a mental illness, as much as i hate the truth, thats what it is, i wouldnt wish cancer on you and i wouldnt wish ana on you either.

For those of you with ana, i hope my website helps, i know other Pro ana websites help me, i hope youll be able to leave messages for me or contact me about anything. Im happy to support you and help you in any way i can!