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Pregnant Woman Battles Eating Disorder: This Week on AOL Health

Posted on Dec 23rd 2009 4:00PM by Ashley Neglia

Filed Under: Diet & Weight Loss

Some consider pregnancy to be the one time in a woman's life when she doesn't have to be on a diet. Sure, you need to make sure to consume healthful foods and remain cognizant of dangerous binge eating to keep you and your baby healthy, but for the most part you can yield to those midnight cravings for butter pecan ice cream topped with animal crackers dipped in peanut butter. For one woman, though, being pregnant meant coming to terms with an eating disorder she had been recovering from for almost a decade.

AOL Health had the opportunity interview Beth Jones, who appeared on the Discovery Health documentary, "I'm Pregnant and...Have An Eating Disorder." Beth, who is an exercise addict, was closely monitored by her doctor to make sure she was within a safe weight range during her pregnancy. Read on to find out how she and her baby fared during this potentially dangerous time.

For more about eating disorders, read about what it's like to eat through an anorexic's eyes.

How much is too much when it comes to pregnancy pounds?

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Tags: anorexia, anorexic and pregnant, eating disorders, pregnancy, pregnancy weight, pregnancy weight gain

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Jamie 6-30-2010 @ 12:49AM

I think Beth will realize how frivolous her body image is when she ends up with the heartbreak her children being anorexic. Who cares what you look like? SO worried about what she looks like! In the long run what matters? Your butt? Nope...spending time with your kids and relaxing and enjoying them & not giving them stress!) life is too short to worry about what you look like people!

I hope you stay on the anxiety and depression medication.

Tammie 11-08-2010 @ 12:07PM

This woman had no business getting pregnant! She is already excessively exercising & involving her children (eg making her children walk to the produce market AGAIN in the apparently very hottest days of summer even after they begged to go in the car). She had already walked that morning & tried to convince her husband to go again that evening. She neglected telling him about the walk she forced the kids to go on. He declined the evening walk due to the heat. She constantly put her unborn baby in danger due to her own selfish wants & needs. Granted, anorexia is infact a disease. I am not blaming her for her disease, I think she needs help & should get it. However I don't think, until she gets that help, she should be allowed to hurt her children. Either the ones she has or gets pregnant with. Drug addiction is also a disease. It's not ok for women to do drugs & hurt their children (born or unborn). The same rules should apply for all women, even those with an eating disorder.