Jennifer Carpenter from "Dexter": holy crap!

**Ahti** · January 13th, 2009, 08:02 AM

Originally Posted by Aella

That's not definitive, either. I have a wide ribcage and generally jutting-out bones. My ribs were visible even when I was a few kilos overweight back in my teens.

Ok, I just took what he said as fact, but maybe it is more of a guideline.

Still, I don't know, she doesn't have those anorexic eyes and hair? Some anorexics do well by doing some kind of sports and eating because they can justify the eating when they have been running etc. Maybe that is her case?

**sputnik** · January 13th, 2009, 09:10 AM

i don't know, i think she just looks like all the serious runners i've known, especially the ones that started young. they all look like whippets.
and you can't say all runners are anorexics, they're just athletic.

*DIVA! · January 13th, 2009, 09:13 AM

She is slim, but she doesn't look sickly. Her face isn't sunken in or anything like that. She doesn't have that ashy look to her.

**Laxmobster** · January 13th, 2009, 09:28 AM

Originally Posted by sputnik

i don't know, i think she just looks like all the serious runners i've known, especially the ones that started young. they all look like whippets.
and you can't say all runners are anorexics, they're just athletic.

That is so true! All the cross country girls at my HS were this thin but super healthy...I thought she looked smaller than her Emily Rose days but I just googled it and she's the same.

**Shinola** · January 13th, 2009, 10:53 AM

I've been taught that when you are eating disordered, eventually the lack of food causes your body to start to destroy itself. There's a word for it, I think (can't remember). It's like, to survive, your body consumes its own tissues, so all of the muscles start to disappear, not just fat. Her muscle tone looks good to me.

I don't like her figure, and the dress isn't helping, but I don't think she looks sick.

**AliceInWonderland** · January 13th, 2009, 11:42 AM

i think she's gotten smaller since i began watching the show too and before she was like tom-boyish/athletic but now she just looks sick.

**frazzled** · January 13th, 2009, 03:32 PM

Do Not Want! Do Not Waaaaaaant!

**Ahti** · January 13th, 2009, 03:35 PM

Originally Posted by Shinola

I've been taught that when you are eating disordered, eventually the lack of food causes your body to start to destroy itself. There's a word for it, I think (can't remember). It's like, to survive, your body consumes its own tissues, so all of the muscles start to disappear, not just fat. Her muscle tone looks good to me.

They also lose the ability for abstract thinking, anyone who has been around anorexic people probably knows that they are not all that smart after they have been starving for a while.
It can be frustrating to talk to them when they have such slow brains.

I wanted to specify that the ribcage showing means that it shows on the chest, it is normal if it shows on the sides.

**Mrs P** · January 14th, 2009, 01:08 AM

^^^ My mother and I have our upper chest bones showing, although we are both normal weights. Shrugs, I guess it's just our frames. My mother hates it, but I don't mind.