Valeria Levitina is the most anorectic woman in the world.
At the age of 39 she weighs mere 25 kilograms!
Translated from http://devki-na-diete.livejournal.com:
[The most surprising thing is that] Valeria is constantly receiving letters from young girls who ask her for advise how to get such “beautiful” shape.
“I’m not going to teach young girls how to die” – said Valeria Levitina in an interview to British media.
“I keep getting e-mails. Girls ask me about my methods of losing weight. They are mostly about 20 years old, and they think of me as the model for inspiration” – said Valeria.
It is because of the fans and their letters that Valeria decided to talk about her serious illness.
“It ruined my life. It made me lonely, nasty and unattractive to others“- says Valeria. Now the woman is involved in various campaigns against the hazardous diets.
The problems with food started when Valeria was a teen. Now she thinks that it was because of her complicated relationship with mother and her sharp words. Her mother was worried that the girl could become fat since many women in her family had problems with weight.
When Valeria was 16, her family moved to Chicago, and she had to attend new school, where she didn’t know anyone. At that time she weighed 63 kg and was ashamed of it.
“In order to be accepted, I started losing weight” – she recalls. At 19 she already looked very feminine, and at 23 Valeria was already very slim.
But when she decided to start the modeling career, the situation deteriorated. In many auditions she was told that she had “too much flesh on the bones”. That period in modeling industry was dominated by girls with protruding ribs. And at the age of 24 years, Valeria Levitina already weighed about 38 kilograms.
Then the most difficult decade of her life followed. Anorexia made her permanently unhappy about her body. She could not start a normal relationship because she couldn’t go to dine out or dance.
She is still sick. “The specialists cannot help me. The problem is in the dissonance between the body and the soul“- sighs Valeria.
Valeria’s dream is to become a surrogate mother, carry and give a child to some infertile couple. But she can do it only if she gets well.
Comments of Russian netizens
uiuiui_1: How long can one live with such weight?Как она так долго живет с таким весом?
surai999: Dogs who walk past her must be craving.Собачки мимо неё ходят и облизываются
mylo_duru (replying to the above): I don’t think there will be people crazy enough to want THIS THING to carry their baby. вряд ли найдется сумасшедший, который пожелает, чтобы вот ЭТО вынашивало его ребенка.
zina_korzina: “”In order to be accepted in the school, I started losing weigh”.‘Чтобы прижиться в школе, начала худеть’.
I don’t get it. Was she occupying too much space? What is it all about? Не поняла фразу. Она что, занимала много места, а его не было или что? Это на каком языке и о чём?
poprobuyvlubis: I can’t believe that someone can be still alive in such state.Даже не верится, что в таком состоянии жить можно.
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I wonder how many people around the world truly take it to such an extreme. The fact that she has admirers makes me feel that the number is substantial.
i22gor said it perfectly …
Every woman pursues beauty. I sympathize her although I don’t understand how she continued losing weight until it was totally out of her control. It’s really terrible. Wish her can survive and be happy.
Sometimes I really don’t understand how people choose to live their life and what’s their standard of beauty. Maybe we just never feel satisfied with what we have.
Similar to people who can’t stop doing plastic surgeries, because they always want to fix a little bit more…
Like the almost-straight line in the drawing which you try to straighten by making it thicker… but if you don’t stop – you will end up with an ugly super-thick line.
Its a shame this keeps happening. There was a model in Europe who did the same, and she’d still go to modeling agencies and they’d tell her to lose five more pounds. She ended up doing a nude billboard campaign with the caption, “Is this beauty?” and died while they were still up from her disease.
Des anyone know how I could get in touch with Valeria. Her story is so heart breaking. Really am trying to get a hold of her as I do want to help her out. Thanks Jake.
Some time ago she participated in the Russian TV show “Let Them Talk” (Пусть говорят). http://www.1tv.ru/sprojects/si=5685
You need some Russian-speaking friend to call their telephone +7495 617-76-28 to explain your reasons why you want to contact Valeria and maybe they will help you to get in touch with her.
Her story breaks my heart. I’m recovering from anorexia myself, but one year ago if I hadn’t been hospitalized, I would’ve died, and I don’t know her, clearly, but I’m scared for her, and I hope she’s able to receive help soon. I wish I could help her. I hope the message she is trying to send helps others as well, because her story is clearly proof that eating disorders are not something to strive for, they are deadly, and horribly destructive. My heart goes out to her.
It really makes me feel like I want to hug her and tell her that it will be okay. Actually it is no wonder that it hurts her to eat much or the wrong food. The body needs a lot of resources even for processing the food. It would make more sense for her to get direct relief by getting some of what her body needs as an injection. I don’t know how someone can tell her to keep going outside. Even if it is not most cold. Her body needs a lot of strength to keep the immune system going. It would really be good if she would stay at home in a warm environment with family and just take the food in form of fluids. It is possible to manage gaining weight. A strict plan for what she buys can’t work as the only plan. I wish her a lot of good luck. I hope that she doesn’t get a cold. Hope that she will be fine.
Im speechless,,,js by looking @ her photos…i get extremmely said,i even cried one tym…Wish she could get well.