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THE YEAR IN BEAUTY.(2004)

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| October 01, 2004 | Denicolo, David | COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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Mary-Kate Olsen and her fraternal twin, Ashley, the squeaky-clean, all-American duo who parlayed eight years of relentless cuteness on Full House into lucrative clothing and media businesses, had a banner year planned for 2004, including a movie release in the spring and college (NYU) in the fall. They were lauded on Oprah as paragons of young womanhood; they hosted Saturday Night Live; they were on the cover of this magazine (and many others). However, days before the twins' eighteenth birthday, their father and Mary-Kate's therapist committed her to a treatment facility for, they said, a severe eating disorder. "They didn't want to find her dead on the floor," a source close to the family told People magazine. The spectacle of a rich, pretty teenager slowly starving herself was sad enough. But the follow-up stories on Mary-Kate's role as a source of "thinspiration" to girls trading extreme diet tips on "anorexic pride" websites were particularly chilling. Anyone in entertainment or the media with a dram of conscience had to wonder about his own complicity in creating such warped self-images. Mary-Kate's illness, after all, was hiding in plain sight. Perhaps now the Olsen twins will have a chance to use ...

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