Snooki Weighed Just 80 Pounds While Battling Eating Disorder
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After "The Situation" mocked Snooki's "rolls" on The Jersey Shore last week, she tearfully announced she once battled an eating disorder.
How bad was it?
"In high school, I really wouldn't eat," Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, 21, reveals in an episode of The Insider to air Tuesday. "I would only have lunch, and I would only have salads.
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"It got so crazy that I would only eat a cracker or a cucumber a day and I would feel full," continues the MTV reality star (the show's finale airs Thursday).
Snooki says she "would go into the nurses office every day and I would weigh myself. When she [the school nurse] realized that I hit 80 pounds, she was like, 'This isn't good.'"
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The nurse notified her parents.
"My parents told me, 'You need to eat, this is very dangerous,'" says Snooki, who is 4-foot-9. "So I gained my weight back to like 98, where I always was."
On Friday, Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino told UsMagazine.com that he felt bad for mocking his co-star while they were dining together in Atlantic City.
"I regret saying it because I have a sister and a mother, but at the same time, everything happened so quickly and that is what happened," he told Us at the GBK Gift Lounge in West Hollywood.
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82In response to the person below me, you are mistaken. You can't be over weight and qualify to be anorexic , you need to be 15% under you lowest normal weight. They would say she was ednos. With anorexic tendencies
it doesn't matter what her weight is... you can be overweight and be anorexic... it just means you haven't lost that much weight "yet"... If you're eating a cucumber a day... that's an eating disorder regardless of what someone weighs. people wouldn't have so many eating disorders if they didn't put so much garbage in all the processed food. Eat organic and you'll lose weight!
Well you all have to consider that she would of been shorter in highschool, woman don't stop growing until their 20 - 22 so perhaps she was underweight for her shorter size....
she wasnt skinny, 80 lbs isnt skinny for that hight, im 5'8 and 96 lbs, i love that im so skinny, i love not having any fat, i wanna stay under 100 lbs forever, cuz my dr. predicted i will be 5'10, so 100 lbs is enough, i dont wanna be fat!
i was looking it up because i have dealt with anorexia since i was almost 9 (now 23) and for a 4'9" person at her age when she said she was anorexic bcuz she weighed 80lbs...i just wanted to say its bull she was only slightly underweight. for someone 4'9" 86-110 is considered normal. she did not "almost die" and this kinda thing makes me angry because see when i was 13, was 5'4 i weighed about 80 and that was when i had tube feedings. NOT fun and NOT cool. i think snookis just trying to "fit in" with all these other celebs that were starving themselves.
Every person's body is different. Eighty to ninety pounds may seem correct for someone of her height, but it may not be. From experience, I know that someone that height may not be healthy at that weight. A person I knew was that height ang went down to a hundred pounds, and her period stopped. She was lethargic a lot. It doesn't matter what size someone is as long as he or she is healthy.
That's crazy. I suffered from an eating disorder in high school as well. It was due to my cheerleading coach telling us, almost on a daily basis, that we flyers (the girls that are on top of the pyramids and stunts) needed to be able to actually be lifted with no problems from our bases. It was rediculous, but when you're that young and you're doing something that you love, I guess it can get to some people in a harsh way. Thank goodness that the eating disorder didn't stick!
That is insane. I love snooki. And I seen the pics online from when she was a cheerleader, and she looked really skinny and good, but you could also tell it was sickly. I hope that Mike realizes that what he said was wrong and took it to heart. It doesnt matter that he has a mom and a sister. Being consious about your weight or etc, has not one thing to do with gender. Guys may be able to take it more than girls, but theres still the same feelings. and gender has nothing to do with that.
People are too hard on others about their weight. It is ok to have meat on your bones, and you should encourage people who are so big that they are having health issues to lose weight, but it is just childish to name call and try to make someone feel bad about themself.
Wow. Some people on here are ridiculous. Snooki was public about it. Big deal. It differs from person to person. Any body with the slightest bit of intelligence would know what. Just because it's one way for you doesn't mean anything about the other person. I've been recored/ing from eating disorders for three years. But, I suppose I'm faking too because I'm open about it. I swear. -_-
Another attention ploy by a fat guido princess. Her "anorexia" mocks all the true sufferers of the disease.
80 pounds SOUNDS extreme, but really isn't when you consider that Snooki is only 4 foot 9. This is a desperate attempt at creating a story out of something fairly ordinary.
First of all I think people should really know exactly what they are talking about before they place judgements or make any assumptions on whether or not Snooki has an eating disorder. One person's eating disorder is never set in stone to fit the perfect definition of what ever type of eating disorder they have. You can't judge Snooki by the way she dresses on the show now or how she eats on the show now and say that there's no way she had an eating disorder before hand. You do not have to be at a dangerously low weight to have an eating disorder. And even if you were there is still 100% chance that you will be able to fully recover. I'm basing my opinion on what Snooki had said. Weighing yourself every day. Restricting yourself from certain foods. Only allowing yourself to eat a certain amount of food. All of those things she claimed to have done. If it were not true... all i can say is that the show must've wanted to put that eating disorder in there for extra drama or just Snooki wanted some attention. But personally I do believe its true to an extent. I think she may have had a bit of an eating disorder maybe anorexia based on what she described. And it doesn't matter if she is wearing tight or form fitting clothes. Some people with eating disorders are not effected by what they wear at all. I've been in an out of many eating disorder clinics and I know for a fact that some people are not affected by it. And even if Snooki was, the chemical imbalance in her brain, plus lack of energy and basic nutrients (all because of her diet) distorts her thinking causing her to believe she's not allowed to dress skimpy like she did on the show. And as for why she was so open about her disorder, it could've been for so many reasons... 1. to create more drama for the show 2. because she is okay with herself now and feels confident enough to talk about it 3. she is an open person and it doesn't bother her 4. she could just be wanting to make mike feel bad because he was kind of a dick in that episode 5. she could want to help spread awareness for those that don't know about eating disorders or have bad judgements of people that do. For any of these reasons, you can't make assumptions that she doesn't have an eating disorder. Even if all of them apply. As i said before, every eating disorder is different for every person it affects. It sounds like Snooki vaguely got into eating disorder territory and it was caught before it got to be too serious (thank god) when an eating disorder is caught that early is it so much easier for a person to fully recover with the right tools to help them. And it's a 100% possible for this whole thing to be complete bull but at the same time it's 100% possible that Snooki had the eating disorder. But in reality we will never truly know because we are not Snooki, we don't have enough information to make logical assumptions, and we don't know exactly what the reasons for Snooki's eating disorder or how it did/didn't effect her which is the key to finding out the truth. On that note I'd just like to say that I have an eating disorder right now. My images of myself are distorted, but my images of others are not. And i think that Snooki looks fine the way she is right now.
Her ideal weight is 87 pounts at 4feet 9 inchs, at 98 pounds shes a porker, but acording to her arrest record shes 110 pounds, She is as fat as she is tall
OMG!I feel so sorry 4 Snooki!But she is old enough 2 realize she would need help faster if it ever happened again...
Here's the reason I don't believe she has/ever had an Eating Disorder...people with ED do not brag about it. Most aren't public about it(and the ones who are usually don't come out about it until 15 years later, or are forced to). And they can't bounce back that fast from it. You can't go from having an ED one day, to it going away the next. And in a LOT of cases, people who have ED never fully recover from them. Sure, they can make themselves eat, or keep themselves from purging...but they always have that thought process of having an ED, but yet, you see her stuffing her face on the show. And the way she flaunts herself like she has the best body on earth. Hey, if she really was that confident about her body, then all the power to her...but no one with a past of EDs would do that. I know all this from personal experience, and through friends who have real EDs. The only ED this girl could have ever had was a binge disorder.
I applaud Snooki for being honest about how tall she is - so many small stars refuse to admit that they are under five feet tall (hey Jada, are you listening??). So good for her for breaking that taboo! Not so sure about the weight though. I am also 4'9" and I only weigh 84 pounds. I'm in good shape but I'm not super skinny and I'm 50 years old....I think Snooki needs to get more exercise and slim down. Weighing in the 80's is perfectly fine for people our size!!
snooky is beautiful,she's not fat i love her,alright !!(i'm a straight girl, ook ???) she's awesome and talented.
Lesliee your a straight up bytch, you must be jealous of her alright. shes not fat, but i bet you are, and to anyone else who has to put snooki down fuqq you all! im a guidette
Snooki is really ugly and fat. I'm sorry. And everyone thats standing up for her, you are idiots! U realize she got u to do exactly what she wants and thats to give her attention. Ook? No one with an eating disoreder talks aobut it. It's so lame and childish. There are these stupid 7th grade girls i know that claim to be raped. That's pretty much the same thing. She is like 4'9 and 130 pounds. Stop giving her all this attention and stop saying that you love her and that she's awesome. She has done NOTHING except act like a stupid HO