Is Barack Obama anorexic?
Posted at 7:31 PM Nov 17, 2008
By Bonnie Ruberg
As Jezebel notes, our President-elect is a notoriously picky eater. But could he be anorexic? It's a question that came up -- along with "What the heck is Michelle Obama wearing?" and "Hey, did Barack just get hot?" -- when I was sitting around with female friends the evening of the election. Jezebel agrees there's something up:
It was kind of shocking to learn that Barack Obama, our dashing president-crush-elect, is apparently rife with food neuroses. Since the campaign post-mortems started coming out last week, we've learned that the President-elect has weird aversions, hang-ups, odd pancake behaviors and a strong abstemious streak — none of which his wife, Michelle, seems to share. As a woman who's lived with picky men, I can relate. As a voter, I feel somewhat blindsided.
I too live with a picky, skinny boy, but I can't help but wonder whether Obama's quirks, which include ordering food from good, old-fashioned American grease joints and then never eating it, don't point toward an eating disorder. Unlike most other presidential candidates, he reportedly lost weight on the campaign trail instead of gaining. He's pretty much a stick to begin with. Maybe he just likes what he likes. Maybe he loses his appetite under pressure. But I know at least one other guy who has a very similar build, a lot of parallel issues with food, and a diagnosed case of anorexia. Being around scrumptious things makes him straight-up sick to his stomach.
Sound like any president elect you know?
Comments
Seriously??? Dolls, you should be 'shamed of yourselves.
If this was an article about a famous female celeb and how she must be anorexic because she's picky about what she eats, just imagine how pissed you'd be!
The prez-elect doesn't really eat greasy fast food, even though he occasionally orders it. OOh.
That does NOT equal anorexia. Jeez!
Posted 11/18/2008 at 09:22:16 AMWhy don't you learn a little more about eating disorders before you post crap like this.
Posted 11/18/2008 at 03:48:59 PMMmm...I love me a skinny, picky-eatin' man!!
Posted 11/19/2008 at 11:32:16 AMI suspected he might be anorexic so I googled it and this is where I ended up. What made me wonder is that I heard he was a smoker and then I saw pictures of him as a kid and he was definitely not skinny like he is now. I also read that he was exercise obsessed. Any woman who was a "picky eater" (yeh, right), a smoker, and an exercise freak would be suspected of being anorexic.
Posted 12/08/2008 at 06:29:17 AM