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Is Frozen's Elsa anorexic?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/11395381/Is-Frozens-Elsa-anorexic.html

3:08PM GMT 06 Feb 2015

'Elsa is a princess born with the destructive powers to turn everything around her into ice. Anna, her little sister, pesters her to play, but she won’t, locking herself away, first in her bedroom and then in a “kingdom of isolation”, an ice castle.'
'Elsa, by contrast, has locked herself away from the social world of meals and won’t let anyone in. Like anorexics, she is fixated with control and perfection. She can only achieve this in private: “conceal, don’t feel”. 
“Let it Go!” is the moment in the film that Elsa starts to recover by letting her hair down and realising that she doesn’t have to try to be a “perfect girl” any more. The ice castle is rehab, where Elsa learns that the “fears that once controlled me can’t get to me at all”. She can finally be honest about her condition: “so now they know”. Many eating disorder sufferers have described how cathartic they find the song. 
Frozen makes a change from the classic Disney princesses, who were indeed impossibly “perfect girls” with repressed attitudes to food. They were tiny-waisted creatures who cooked more than they ate, like Cinderella fixing perfect bowls of porridge for her horrid stepsisters. Snow White is always cooking for others though she consumes little herself, except for poison apples. She sweetly makes pies for each of the dwarves, with the pastry edges crimped by woodland birds. Her own hunger is focused on the prince.'

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