Is “thinspiration” ever truly useful?
May 18, 2008 by angelique
Filed under Women's Health
First of all, thinspiration (or thinspo) is used by pro-ana and pro-mia advocates around the world and provides vision cues to them to stop eating. Pictures of rail-thin women and guys are plastered around the web, ostensibly to give willpower to anorexics and bulimics.
Of course, all pro-recovery sites like Breaking the Mirror talk about the dangers of thinspo. That’s nothing new.
But could thinspiration be truly useful in some situations? I mean, people without eating disorders tend to use “thinspiration”, too.
For instance, a gal who wants to return to her pre-pregnancy weight may put pics of her years ”before kids” around the house as …read more




