Menspeak out about dangers of ‘manorexia’

MATT DONATO ASST.A&E EDITOR MCD724@CABRINI EDU

Recently, women who have complexes about their physical form found they are not alone. More and more men these days are admitting to being anorexic. They are no longer referred to as being anorexic, but “manorexic,” which is the name given to the newest twist on anorexia.

It is a term that was coined in the mid-’90s by famous actor Dennis Quaid. Quaid acknowledged the fact that he was manorexic when he dropped 40 pounds for the part of Doc Holliday in the film “Wyatt Earp.”

Quaid admitted, “My arms were so skinny that I couldn’t pull myself out of a pool. I’d look in the mirror and still see a 180-pound guy even though I was 138 pounds. For many years, Iwas obsessed about what I was eating, how many calories it hadand how much exercise I’d have to do,” according to Best Life magazine.

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