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Eating disorders are not illnesses to take lightly, especially when they begin to take over your life.

So to decipher the differences between eating behaviors, we're sharing the main symptoms to be aware of:

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We previously mentioned that when Demi Lovato was on Katie Couric's show Katie, Couric revealed she used to suffer from bulimia.

She was courageous enough to come clean on TV and is glad she did it, saying:

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As a Disney product, thus mentally f*cked at an early age, Demi Lovato experienced a complicated, convoluted reality that forced the teen star to grow up, very quickly…

Demi recently opened up about being diagnosed as Bipolar in 2010 while seeking treatment for a number of harrowing personal issues - self-mutilation, eating disorders, substance abuse - and how releaved she was to discover a scientific reason for her muddled headspace.

The soulful artist revealed:

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Ahh! The power of social media!

Julia Bluhm's started an online petition asking Seventeen magazine to cool it on the Photoshopping has grown legs!

Since telling our CoCoPerezcious readers about the 13 year old's cause, the petition has received more than 40,000 signatures in less than 3 days!!!

The overwhelming response was hard to ignore and on Wednesday Seventeen invited Julia to

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It’s no surprise that magazines constantly create the illusion of unattainable body images with a little help of Photoshop magic.

What is surprising, is how one 13 year old from Maine is taking a stand and urging Seventeen to commit to just ONE unaltered photo spread every month.

Julia Bluhm's Seventeen Magazine: Give Girls Images of Real Girls petition reads

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Supermodel Natalia Vodianova is on the defensive after the media misconstrued her "it's better to be skinny than fat" comment she made last weekend.

As most celebrities tend to do, the Russian beauty posted an explanation on Facebook and she had A LOT to say.

Natalia writes:

I guess the reaction of the press is expected to be negative when I said it's better to be skinny then to be fat at the Vogue Festival this past weekend. However on the background of arriving from China where most people leave under the poverty line and have to share food and watch how much they eat to survive and on the background of how I grew up where sometimes I had to skip meals so there would be food for my little disabled sister and that feeling of missing bread so much some days because on some days we had no money to buy any (reason I had ulcers as little girl was constant irregular eating) could give an explanation why I felt moved to give another prospective on this issue.

But wait, there's more! Read Miz Vodianova's entire post…AFTER THE JUMP!

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Yet another reason why we love her!

Yesterday, Demi Lovato returned to the rehab center where she was treated last year…and it sounds like it was a wonderful experience!

Here's what she tweeted about it:

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