New Miss America once battled anorexia
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Just three years ago, newly crowned Miss America Kirsten Haglund was eating tiny portions of food and became so thin her concerned parents "dragged me to the doctor."
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NEW YORK  - Anorexia nervosa causes a loss  of lung tissue, resulting in changes that resemble emphysema,  according to a new report.
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The pop star with the malfunctioning wardrobe has lost weight but not her blunt lyrics.
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Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia have gotten  plenty of attention in recent years. But the first attempt to document how common eating disorders are nationwide  produced  surprises.
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Deidre Downs passed up medical school so she could compete for Miss America. Her decision turned out to be a prescription for success.
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For years, as its longtime song asserted, the winner of the Miss America Pageant was the ideal American woman, a paragon that included Lee Meriwether, Bess Myerson and Phyllis George.
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The mother of conjoined twins who have now been separated grapples with medical needs and new identities.
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Beauty sometimes demands toughness, as many women discover, but Suzanne Thomas had never imagined she would agree to have 72 injections of a fat-burning chemical cocktail in her neck and chin.
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An Argentine reality TV show that is helping obese contestants shed pounds and take better care of themselves has attracted a weighty audience.
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Miss USA Tara Conner, who nearly lost her crown for hard-partying in New York nightclubs, says in the upcoming issue of People magazine that her recent stint in rehab was a wake-up call.
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Developing an eating disorder as young as 6 or 7 years old has forced many girls into treatment by the age of 12. Because of that, a new facility is set to open in Tucson.
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After two weeks of primping, practice and preliminaries, 52 women are ready to compete in a sexed-up, slimmed-down Miss America contest designed to appeal to viewers bored with pageantry but hungry for reality TV.
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Performer Queen Latifah is about to be cast in a new role: weight-loss spokeswoman for Jenny Craig, the commercial diet that has recently helped formerly "fat actresses" Kirstie Alley and Valerie Bertinelli shed pounds. Latifah, who is known for her curves, isn't trying to get starlet skinny but ...
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Miss Michigan Kirsten Haglund, a 19-year-old aspiring Broadway star, was crowned Miss America 2008 on Saturday in a live show billed as the unveiling of the 87-year-old pageant's new, hipper look. Haglund, of Farmington Hills, Michigan, sang "Over the ...
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Petra Nemcova knows what it's like to struggle to stay thin and continue modeling. "I'm naturally more curvy, so I always had to lose weight," the 27-year-old Czech supermodel says in People magazine's Oct. 2 issue, on newsstands Friday. "I took laxatives. I went through all of it just to be able to model."
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Miss America is all dressed up with no place to go -- at least for now. ABC, which has broadcast the annual beauty pageant from Atlantic City, New Jersey, for the past
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Miss America is all dressed up with no place to go -- at least for now.