Why is it that when we think of eating disorders, we think of Mary-Kate Olsen’s protruding clavicles or Nicole Richie’s gaunt frame? While the majority of sufferers are, in fact, young women under the age of 25, there is a whole other cohort of women–the midlife victims–for whom anorexia and bulimia are huge, often under-recognized problems.

In a recent study in the International Journal of Eating Disorders, researchers confirmed that the very same eating disorders that affect young teens and waify supermodels also exist well into adulthood.

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