Ksenia Bubenko: the history of her illness

The idea of fixing a modern girl is an ideal figure. In the time of Rubens, the ideal figure was a powerful mill with rounded forms, a noticeable difference between the chest and the waist, and thinness and pallor were rather signs of exhaustion than of beauty and health. Times change, and the image of painful fragility and tenderness was elevated to the ideal of femininity. Long-legged models with ideal proportions slender rows go along the catwalk, driving both men and women mad. The model is a dream, a fabulous life, easy money and the love of hundreds of fans. Every girl from early childhood dreams of such a life. The heroine of this article - Ksenia Bubenko, who quickly slipped into the abyss called "anorexia" - did not become an exception.

The sad story of "victory"

For a girl named Ksenia Bubenko Ekaterinburg has been going through it for years. And after agitating the public release of the program "Let them talk" for the girl and the residents of the whole country are worried. Ksenia Bubenko is an adult. At the time of the release of the program she turned 19 years old. By this age the girl weighs 23 kilograms. She is sick with anorexia, and she has already come to realize this terrible diagnosis. On the program, she told her sad story. The motive for losing weight was glamorous magazines. Model beauties excited the imagination of the young girl, and she wanted to become one of them. Until happiness was not enough just a little - to work on the figure and lose those extra pounds. Xenia Bubenko solved the problem radically - she just stopped eating. The results of such a "diet", which Xenia, gave the name "Victory", did not take long to wait. If Ksenia Bubenko before anorexia weighed about 48 kilograms, then her minimum weight was 19 kilograms. For a short time, the girl lost almost 30 kilograms.

"Let them talk"

On the program "Let them talk" Ksenia Bubenko stood on the scales. Her weight was 23 kilograms. Relatives and friends in horror. They beg the girl to think better, start eating and stop torturing herself. In the studio of the program, girls who suffer from anorexia and are on the recovery stage also gathered. They told the audience their stories and gave advice on how to recognize and defeat the disease.

Predominantly anorexic diseases are caused by the representatives of the fair sex who are more susceptible to the influence of someone else's opinion. Girls-perfectionists, such as Ksenia Bubenko, aspire to do everything and always do "excellent", to achieve better results. For them, there is no half-measure, only a victory, only an ideal result. Growth Ksyusha is small for a modeling career - 158 centimeters. But this did not stop her. The girl, without telling her parents, decided to achieve the ideal weight, using only water. Parents, confident in the prudence of her daughter, could not believe that she did not eat anything, but then Ksyusha's legs turned into bones covered with skin, and anxiety due to her rapid weight loss grew into a panic. On the program "Let them talk", Andrey Malakhov suggested the girl to fulfill one of her dreams - to organize a professional photo shoot, when her weight will exceed 30 kilograms. Xenia agreed to a bar of 30 kilograms, but not more.

Insidiousness of anorexia

This alarmed the parents and the audience even more, because, despite the apparent dystrophy and lack of weight and nutrients, vitamins in the body, Ksenia Bubenko does not want to recover to normal weight and considers herself beautiful, although her protruding bones covered with parchment skin cause horror Among others. Inadequate perception of oneself is one of the true signs of an insidious disease - anorexia. Many parents incorrectly assume that anorexia is manifested only with significant weight loss. In fact, anorexia is a nervous breakdown in eating behavior, in which there is no appetite and there is a constant fear of gaining weight. Anorexia can also appear with a large excess of weight, when the girl is under constant emotional pressure, generated by her own dissatisfaction with herself, ridicules of others and a desire to change. Often this disease is attributed to models that regularly withstand a huge competition and are panic-stricken about the appearance of an extra kilogram, which will inevitably notice during the defile in swimsuits. According to rough estimates, anorexia is affected by about 1% of the beautiful half of humanity and 0.2% - the strong half. The average age of the sick varies from 13 to 20 years.

What are the main causes of anorexia?

It is rare, but it happens that the cause of the progression of anorexia is a brain tumor that provokes a disturbance in the balance of the hormones of the pituitary or hypothalamus. But mainly the disease has psychological reasons. In other words, the obsessive desire to lose weight is due to low self-esteem, the desire to make a career, like a lover, depressive disorders or schizophrenia.

How to recognize anorexia early?

The main symptom, of course, is weight loss of 20 or more percent of body weight in six months or less. There is a panic fear of getting better. Progressing body exhaustion. Patients have a clear goal and dream about the figure of the desired weight. With prolonged absence of effect, depression develops, accompanied by outbursts of anger. With weight loss, euphoric attacks are possible. New norms of behavior appear during the meal. For example, patients eat standing, divide their meals into portions, hide from their household. Taking advantage of the trust of their loved ones, the patients throw away food, transfer it to other people's plates, give them to animals.

If it turns out, the patients completely refuse to eat, as it happened in the case of Ksyusha Bubenko. Her muscles began to atrophy. The girl's body is terrible to look at. Of bones, calcium is washed away, teeth and hair are badly damaged. The girl has arrhythmia and constant weakness. The monthly cycle has stopped, and as restoration of the organs is not observed, the cells began to die off. In the event that Ksenia Bubenko has recovered, the cycle might have returned.

Way to life

Now the girl needs urgent hospitalization, which she resists. Recovery will become possible when she begins to receive intravenous vitamins, medication. In addition, she needs a balanced diet and behavioral therapy. Xenia Bubenko now scored several kilograms, but still her health is still in danger. Without a clear desire to recover, the girl is doomed. And at this time many hundreds of little girls study her photos, envy her successes and dream of a career as a supermodel, the path to which begins with a diet for them.