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Author: Ebony
KAELYN CARSON had everything. She was a member of the National Association of Collegiate Scholars; she won the title of Miss Michigan American Teen, and she was a budding star on the Central Michigan University track team.
But in 2001, at age 20, Kaelyn Carson lost her lengthy battle with anorexia nervosa. At the time of her death, the 5-foot-8 beauty weighed a scant 79 pounds.
Now if you're thinking that Kaelyn Carson was a bubbly blonde with sparkling blue eyes, you're wrong--Kaelyn Carson was a Sister, and her tragic life was proof that, despite the hype, eating disorders are no longer the "affluent White girl's affliction."
Today health experts have discovered that young Black females in the 'hood are starving themselves intentionally (anoxeria nervosa). Other Black women are bingeing and purging (bulimia nervosa) on the campuses of historically Black colleges and universities, while many in corporate America are crash-dieting and abusing laxatives in a dangerous, sometimes deadly, attempt to control their weight.
Researchers Ruth H. Striegel-Moore and others report in the study, "Recurrent Binge Eating in Black American Women," that recurrent binge eating is more common among Black women than White women, and that "Black women were as likely as White women to report binge eating or vomiting.., and were more likely to report fasting and the abuse of laxatives or diuretics."