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 Jamie-Lynn Sigler
One young actress who was brave enough to take her battle public is Jamie-Lynn Sigler- James Gandolfini's daughter on "The Sopranos." Jamie-Lynn decided that her success should be turned to doing good, and right now this is her way.
"I became a spokeswoman for eating disorders," Jamie-Lynn shares with ET, "I would say about three or four months after I actually came out about it. It is a tough thing to talk about it, but it is actually therapeutic for me. I know it is something that touches almost every girl, and men, too."
The best advice Jamie-Lynn can offer is that "if you know someone who is going through it, or if you are going through it, the person really has to want to get better to get better. Just make sure that you let them know that you love them and that you are there for them when they are ready, because that's really all I needed to hear."
Actress, activist, athlete, wife and mother, was one of the first famous women to openly discuss her eating disorder. In the late 1970s, she went public with her "bulimarexia," the binge-and-vomit cycle that nearly ruined her health. Overwhelmed by the demands of the Hollywood culture, she spent nearly 20 years in the relentless pursuit of thinness.
 Janet Jackson
Singer Janet Jackson has been quoted in the media as having an ongoing battle with an eating disorder. Sources say she has been battling weight problems most of her life, and recently blew-up to 160 pounds from her normal weight of 118 pounds. "She'll go months eating whatever she can get her hands on, and then she'll go months eating just salads and fruits and drinking Evian water," the family source said. "She's had this feast-or-famine eating disorder for years and has gotten up to 200 pounds or more at times." The source revealed that Jackson is back with her personal trainer, Tony Martinez, in an effort to tone up by the time her new album is released.
For years, Janet says, she fooled everybody--her fans, her friends, even herself--pretending to be this self-assured woman who'd finally taken control of her life, smiling on the outside while she was aching on the inside. "I had my ways of hiding my pain," she confides. "Laughing when there was nothing to laugh at. Smiling when there wasn't anything to smile about. That was just my way of getting through life. Pretending like every thing was okay. I guess I did it so well that I really began to believe it. I fooled myself. Using my escapisms was my thing to not feel my pain--whatever would numb the pain. Food became a favorite anesthetic. "I escaped through eating," she confesses. Until a year, maybe two, before she started recording The Velvet Rope, it hit her If she ever wanted to feel good about herself, she had to stop running away from her feelings.
Janet Jackson's once ripped abs and svelte 118 pound frame has been replaced with 160 lbs of gravy. She has reportedly contacted her old friend and trainer, Tony Martinez, in hopes to shed the 40+ lbs by the time her forthcoming album is released in early spring.
A family friend said, "She'll go months of eating whatever she can get her hands on, and then she'll go months eating just salads and fruits and drinking Evian water. She's had this feast-or-famine eating disorder for years and has gotten up to 200 pounds or more at times."
Janet's reported eating habits may be because of the increased stress of having to support her famous family amid brother Michael's recent legal and financial issues.
 The lastest on Janet Jackson according to all the celebrity news in she now once againg has gained weight. At the end of May, Janet Jackson appeared on the cover of US Weekly looking much toned and speaking about how she lost 60 pounds and kept the weight off for more than one year. Now, after just a month and a half, she seems to have gained at least 20 pounds since posing for that cover. Apparently, she didn't "end her yo-yo weight nightmare" after all! Hopefully she can get some help with this.
 Joan Rivers
Commedienne, author, entrepreneur and mother developed "acute onset" bulimia after the tragic suicide of her husband, Edgar Rosenberg. Devastated by the loss, her appetite went into orbit as she launched her gastronomic space program--bags of cookies, whole cakes and ice cream by the gallon. She was so angry and despondent that for a moment she too considered suicide. The love of those around her caused her to take stock. She began to count her blessings, not her losses. She sought counseling. She volunteered to help others. She learned that the long journey back to health begins with small steps. Step-by-step, she recovered.
(See "Bouncing Back," Joan Rivers, Harper Collins, 1966)
 Joyce Maynard
Joyce Maynard is a journalist and fiction writer for more than 30 years.
"I was always a skinny kid and it was always easy for me to be a skinny kid because I was a notoriously picky eater. There always was a focus on me to make sure I ate enough."
"Then in my teens I wasn't a skinny waif anymore. I wasn't overweight. I just had a body that was filling out in a womanly way. My mother was deeply ocncerned. As I had done all my life, I took onto my shoulders the responsibility for my parents' disappointments, and attended to them the best I could. This is probably when I started struggling with anorexia."
Back to the notion, that you should write about what you know. At that point in my life, I knew about life in a small and apparently very quiet New Hampshire town. I knew about babies (because I had one). I knew about eating disorders (because I'd suffered from them). I knew about small New Hampshire towns, because -- except for a very brief time I'd spent in New York City -- those were the only places I'd ever lived.
She says teenage fame made her become a bulimic.
The former Family Ties star made a lot of rules for herself:
"I can have one more cookie if I go throw it all up later. Or I can have this now if I skip lunch later," she said in the Nov. 9 edition of the U.S. TV Guide.
"I'm talking mainly about doing stuff like not eating when I'm hungry. Or eating more than I really want to and then trying to get rid of it."
Bateman said she was sure people knew. "In fact, when they'd say, 'You look anorexic,' I'd take it as a compliment."
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