Why are prepubescent girls developing eating disorders?
Sydney Forbis seems like an ordinary teenager: She wears skin-tight clothing, worries about her figure and painstakingly picks out each new outfit when she goes shopping with her mother. The extraordinary thing about Sydney is that she is only 6 years old. “I think sweatpants make my legs look fat,” she said on ABCNEWS’ Good Morning America. Even though she is thin, the little girl said she runs to keep her weight down. “I don’t want the fat to spread all over my body.” Eating disorder experts say prepubescent girls are developing eating disorders as young as 5 and 6 years old. They may be getting their obsession from parents who are preoccupied with their own body images, and media images of skinny pop stars like Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears, the experts say. Spotting Eating Disorder Symptoms Dr. Ira Sacker, an anorexia specialist who founded the organization Helping to End Eating Disorders, or HEED, told Good Morning America he has been treating a lot of very young girls for
