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Allegra Versace is down to 70 lbs, and has to be fed with a tube. She's in a private facility with round the clock supervision. Now I DO feel bad for laughing at Donatella when she bit the pavement. I can't imagine having a kid who's so anorexic she might not make it. These peoples whole life has been dictated by the fashion industry, you have to wonder if that was a factor in 20 year old Allegra's illness. I don't understand anorexia and I admit it. Seems like you just should friggin' eat something, but, I know it's more complicated than that. Get well Allegra.
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Having a coke-addicted mother can't be too good. Who can you lean on or look up to in life if your primary role model is a coke-hag?
that's an old pix of stick Allegra. is the story old too? i thought Allegra was doing better....
i know she has serious issues with her uncle leaving her the Versace company...and with her mom as a former coke head, that couldn't have helped her at all...
yeah, in some magazine recently Allegra gave a very rare interview with her mom---was it WWD? and they had said she was doing better and gaining weight...
hmmm..........
She looks like a 12 year old. God bless her.
I don't understand anorexia either but I am guessing it must affect the brain and must be a disease and therefore a mysterious ailment that is hard to beat.
It is very sad. There has been too many deaths lately of this disease.
Anorexia is a mental disorder, or disease if you wish to call it that. The cases of it are getting higher with children. It's truly sad. I could go on and on about it but I'm not sure there's enough room here. It's easy to say "just eat something" but it's not that easy. I used to work with people with eating disorders. I once held the hand of a 9 year old girl who was dying from anorexia, or complications due to anorexia. She wanted to look like the models on magazine covers. She died while I held her hand. Her parents were crushed. Was it her fault? I don't believe so. I think it was societies fault. They are pressuring kids to be "perfect" or their version of it. Some say it's because people with anorexia want control in their lives and this is one way to have control. Some say it's society's pressure. I think it has many factors. I know quite a bit about it. Too much to go on with here.
Sorry for the long ramble.
Eliza
The photo of her might not be recent, but, the story is. She has battled this for years. I am so sorry for her and her family. Oh and Eliza, never say sorry for a long post. Taking is what we're here for and I read 'em all.
I will now cry.
Thanks DD
The poor girl, maybe they should look for a new facility for her treatment, sometimes if one doesn't work another might..... God she looks awful, poor girl..
I was hospitalized outside NY city with Allegra for anorexia back in 1997. She was only 10yrs old at the time and even back then she would have to be forced to have the nasal gastric tube at times. It was right around the time her uncle died. She was the sweetest girl. Her mom would occassionally visit; but Ally would tell us that all her mom did was smoke cigarettes and eat salads. It is SO sad that 10 yrs. later she is still fighting this horrible disease. Pray for her!!
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