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01-19-2011, 02:36 AM
| | Evanna Lynch discusses negative body images & overcoming personal obstacles Harry Potter actress Evanna Lynch recently wrote a personal essay on body image, the obsession over which she considered her personal Boggart. Evanna, who plays ethereal Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter series, went into detail about negative body image and how she considers it a personal body bind, of sorts.
The actress discussed this particular topic as she had suffered from anorexia nervosa for two years in her youth, but with the aid of J.K. Rowling and the Harry Potter series, she was able to overcome the ailment. Highlights of the story can read below; the full article can be found at HP Alliance. Quote:
Unfortunately so, so many people are letting their own Negative Body Image be another type of body-bind that prevents them from living their life to the fullest. We feed ourselves negative thoughts about our body, thoughts like “I’m too fat”, “I’m too short”, “I’m too ugly.” Very quickly we glumly accept them as the truth, and thus we become imprisoned in our own body. We use them as excuses NOT to fulfill certain ambitions and lock ourselves into a cosy self-contained prism of isolation and fear.
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If you don’t use your body to its full potential, as a means of achieving your dreams, you are wasting it. You are no better off than someone who is locked in a total body bind curse. At the same time I realise how difficult it is to overcome this state of mind, and I know what a firm, unrelenting grip these thoughts can get on you.
A few years ago I was haunted by destructive, negative thoughts like these. I used to get so angry and frustrated because I felt my mind didn’t match up with my body and that it prevented me from things I knew I was capable of doing. It took me a while to realise that all of this was an illusion. If I continued to abuse my body by giving in to my negative thoughts, I didn’t deserve to have the health and fitness I was blessed with.
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Do whatever it is you have to do to make yourself feel beautiful. If that’s keeping fit and healthy then go for a walk or run in the mornings and be determined to keep it up. Do your makeup, or if you’re bored and want to change your appearance, then dye your hair a different colour. Eventually, by doing these little things and feeling more beautiful, you will break through all the self doubt and find the negative obsession fading away.
Don’t get lazy and tell yourself there’s no point; it’s important! Nowadays I know what I need to do to be happy with my appearance: I spend a few minutes in the morning picking out an outfit that will make me feel confident, and then I have the rest of the day, free from the old destructive thoughts, to pursue my creative pursuits – the most important thing!! But I know that if I didn’t take care of my body, I would get really down and feel incapacitated to do even the most menial everyday tasks.
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01-19-2011, 02:53 AM
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01-19-2011, 02:54 AM
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This is why I Love Evanna! She's awesome. From the bit I read I'm inspired
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01-19-2011, 03:01 AM
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hmmm. this is very interesting. I like what she has to say. She seems honest and that's always a nice trait in people who are famous!
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01-19-2011, 03:09 AM
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I love Evanna. She's so humble and I love how the HP series helped her get over her anorexia. She was definitely one of the last people I would have thought of when it came to that disorder. She's so inspiring, and those little tidbits that were given were great advice from her. Go Evanna!
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01-19-2011, 03:14 AM
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What a role model ![:)](https://www.snitchseeker.com/images/smilies/smile1.gif) she's giving off exactly the right message to younger girls.
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01-19-2011, 03:26 AM
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The irony of this is situation is that I always found Evanna to possess a beauty unlike the “normal definition.” I’ve always admired her uniqueness and devotion as a fan, like the rest of us. I've said this time and time again (and I’ve always meant it), but Evanna, at least in my eyes, has a unique beauty that very few people possess. So it’s a shock to hear that she once suffered from her own body image issues when I’ve always thought of her as nothing more than beautiful in every which way. It’s sad that our society lets us believe that to be "beautiful" we have to give them more than who we are; that we have to enhance ourselves in some way, but at least there are people fighting back against this.
I’m pleased to hear that J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter played a part in bringing her out of that dark place and putting things into perspective. Many people laugh when I say that Harry Potter taught me my life lessons, but people forget that the pen is mightier than the sword and in this case it seems to prove just that, especially now that Evanna chose to write down her struggles.
I’m proud of Evanna for coming forward with her personal struggles. I do hope that people are inspired by her words and able to take something from them into their body image struggles. I’ve always said, but I can’t think of anyone else who deserved the role more than Evanna.
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01-19-2011, 03:56 AM
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That's incredibley inspiring. I'm glad that JK Rowling and the HP books helped her. I can understand...I've actually said "no" to drugs because I didn't think Harry would approve. Lol...that's actually pretty pathetic, isn't it?
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01-19-2011, 04:31 AM
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Sounds like a courageous young lady who came through a personal battle in good shape all the way around.
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01-19-2011, 04:33 AM
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Wow! It's kind of hard to imagine someone as blessed and beautiful as Evanna to go through something like that, but I have gorgeous friends who are convinced they are absolutely ugly, it's really sad seeing people do that to themselves, and it took me forever to realize I was doing it myself.. And I actually was able to pull myself out of it quite a bit by comparing myself to Hermione Granger (strange I know)... But the HP books can be really helpful in the littlest ways!
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01-19-2011, 04:47 AM
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Oh snap never would've guessed it, but MAJOR kudos to her for overcoming that horrible horrible disease!!
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01-19-2011, 05:05 AM
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ahh, i love how Evannah used Harry Potter to get over her disease, and how she is humble and just plain awesome.
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01-19-2011, 06:23 AM
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While I have not gone so far as to be destructive in terms of my body image, I do suffer from some negative body images issues living in Japan as a foreigner. Hearing Evanna speak out and offer advice is actually really inspiring to me.
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01-19-2011, 07:17 AM
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i didnt know she suffered from anorexia, i wrote an essay for college a long time ago about body image its interesting how many people will do anything just to have the perfect body
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01-19-2011, 09:30 AM
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01-19-2011, 11:06 AM
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01-19-2011, 12:47 PM
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I'm glad she can be so honest about herself. That was a nice article.
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01-19-2011, 12:49 PM
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Evanna is really great and inspiring!
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01-19-2011, 01:20 PM
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anorexia is an awful disease....period.
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01-19-2011, 03:33 PM
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awesome
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01-19-2011, 06:34 PM
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Shame poor Evanna! I never knew she had anorexia. Who would have guessed that such a beautiful person could have negative body image. I agree with you people,Evanna is very humble,beautiful and awesome!:luna: She really is my role model |
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01-19-2011, 06:44 PM
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I didn't know that Evanna had suffered from anorexia. I'm glad that she's become such a positive person and was able to overcome it.
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01-19-2011, 07:17 PM
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I disagree,Evanna..
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01-19-2011, 10:07 PM
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I never knew Evanna had suffered so much. She is one inspiring person to look up too. She has a lot of courage within her. I'm so proud of her. I never knew this much about her. I can't believe JK Rowling who wrote the Harry Potter Series would turn Evanna's life around like this. Evanna is just such an amazing person. Just reading this has inspired me so much. She is write about every little bit of information.
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