Courtney Love Plans to Gain 15 Pounds in a Month
Courtney Love has promised to put on weight after she was pictured looking frighteningly thin and gaunt in New York last week. The former Hole lead singer, who covered up her skeletal frame in a black and white coat during an outing in the city yesterday, says she has been ordered to start eating by her doctor who diagnosed her with malnutrition.
‘I know I’ve got too skinny,’ she says in a new interview. ‘I know I need to sort it out. I am going to put on 15lbs in one month… I do not have body dysmorphia. Seriously, I want to get fatter. You know, when I was 192lbs [13st 5lbs], I thought I looked hot!… [My doctor] gave me a massive shot of vitamins and told me to start eating,’ she revealed in the current issue of Grazia.
The 44-year-old yo-yo dieter is more than two stone below the recommend healthy weight for her height. Even she was taken aback by the scales after she stepped on to weigh herself during an interview with the magazine.
‘S***, I though I was like 130lbs [9st 2lbs], but I’m 118lbs [8st 4lbs] and I’m 5ft 10ins, that’s not good for someone my height,’ she told the reporter. She continued: ‘I need to start working out again. It’s the stress – you have no idea what it has been like these last few months. I need to get to the bottom of this fraud, I need answers.’
Source: The Daily Mail
It would do her a lot of good to put on a few pounds, but is it just me or is putting on 15 pounds in a month just a little too drastic?
At least she is honest and isn’t saying “I do eat, I eat healthy, I’m not sick or starving myself” etc etc. To be honest I thought she weighed less than 118 but I suppose she is quite tall.
at her height that puts her bmi at 16.9 which is under weight (>18.5). That’s like a 5′5″ person being a slightly over 100 pounds.
whoops <18.5
Sexy!
please say you’re joking.
She is one the thinnest people I’ve ever seen besides Allegra Versace.
That is by no way, shape or form a compliment.
She is disgusting looking…sorry, that’s my reaction.
I agree, Kristy; she is being honest. Which is more than I can say for some scary skinny celebs.
OMG, she should try a tube for gaining these much-needed pounds…she looks like she’s close to death.
it’s not stress, it’s cocaine.
i don’t know how much people gain in the hospitals when anorexic, but 15 sure is a lot in one month. Her body is so weak it doesn’t need any more distress that would come from too much sugar and fat, or just eating too too much all the time. But i’ve been to understand that if your BMI is much under YOUR OWN natural weight, the brains just tell the body to suck all the vitamins and calories it possibly can from the food. I could be wrong. The ideal speed to lose weight is about 500-1000 kcal a day (maybe more if you exercise a lot)which is 0.5-1 kg/1-2 lb’s per week. That’s not too drastic for the body. So i would think a healthy speed to gain would be about the same, so 4kg / 8-9 lbs per month (1kg=2.2lbs, so i can’t be bothered to convert the exact amounts) But gaining is quite natural for humen, so maybe it can go quicker. (Scientist have shown that gaining leaves a mark to our brain, and our body is always trying to reach the BIGGEST weight we’ve ever been, because it was needed in the cave men times, and we are yet to adjust to modern society, and so gaining is what we always try to do really. Now it’s only about giving hunger signals etc, so we CAN choose our weight, if we eat with thought and not with heart so much)
Needing to gain weight when you are emaciated is a totally different story from an overweight person trying to lose weight. Most ED clinics will make emaciated patients gain 2 – 3 lbs a week, but I personally gained 30 lbs in a month. From 70 to 100. I didn’t eat too much food or too much sugar/fat, I ate what was required for me to continue to live. It was what my body needed. It’s best to put the weight on fast anyway, it gets a lot of the pain and struggle out of the way so the mental problem can be worked on without any fear of sudden death due to being so physically sick & unstable.
karen carpenter died because of gaining about 15pounds in a very short priod of time (also like a month) when she was anorexic, because it was toomuch at once her body could handle at that time.