The Daily Buzz‘Anna Rexia’ is still a costume and this year it sold out
Four years ago, the worst costume ever debuted.
It was a low-cut, low-quality dress with a skeleton printed onto it. The costume was called “Anna Rexia”.
Around the same time, Jessi Davin was fighting for her life. She had been diagnosed with anorexia at 19 and was in treatment until she was 22.
After realizing that the world saw her potentially deadly struggle as a gag at a Halloween party, she created a blog post that went viral two years ago explaining the reality of trying to survive with an eating disorder.
-4 years of hospitalization
-A nasogastric feeding-tube because you’ve starved yourself so much that your body doesn’t recognize food as a good thing and tries to attack itself.
-Re-Feeding Syndrome, which can kill you.
-Emotional struggles for years.
-A father crying and pleading on his knees begging for you to get help
-A mother who cries every time she sees you because you look and SMELL like death.
-Holidays missed, birthdays crying in a hospital.
Almost every major organ in your body failing.
-A shower chair - because you can’t stand in the shower because you’re too weak and the warm water could make you pass out.
-A wheelchair, because you are too weak to walk and it could make you go into cardiac arrest.
-A lifetime of medications for anxiety and the health issues “Anna Rexia” caused.
-Plenty of money for multiple ER trips due to “Anna Rexia” even in recovery.
-And if you don’t get help like I do, or even if you do, a coffin. Because I’ve lost more friends to this eating disorder then anything I’ve ever faced.
-I almost died from this. I know it’s supposed to be funny and shit and yeah I get that, but seriously.
She concluded the post with a true, but rather gruesome statement.
“Wanna dress as ‘Anna Rexia’? Just go as a vampire, or a zombie. Because 1/3 of us are dead.”
In the two years since the now 26-year-old wrote the piece, the costume is still available for purchase and in fact is sold out this year.
Davin told BuzzFeed News that she didn’t expect her story, which has been shared thousands of times, to get so big. “I’m very happy it did. Even if I did put myself out there into a vulnerable spot.”
