B-eating eating disorders party at the Met Bar

Friday February 29, 2008 / Categories: Events, News

Last year there was some criticism aimed at social networking websites Facebook and MySpace for failing act quickly enough on the growing number of pro-anorexia groups on their websites.

As we were just about to launch OSOYOU, I wanted to speak to Susan Ringwood from the UK’s leading eating disorders charity b-eat. After meeting Susan it became clear that b-eat should be OSOYOU’s chosen charity.

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We decided to organise an event at London’s very swish Met Bar, with help from Dove Spas, for the charity’s Just 1 Day campaign.

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The event theme was “feeling good about yourself”, so we had therapists giving massages, The Body Gossip sofa - a sofa where people write how they feel about their body - and stars such as Sarah Jayne Dunn and Mikyla Dodd (Mandy and Chloe from Hollyoaks), the Samanda twins and Jen Hunter showed their support by turning up.

Visit the b-eat website



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