as a person who has an ed too, i think it's very good that there aren't only skinny teen girls on tv, because eating disorders don't have to do anything with age or gender. i hope everyone who sees this'll be able to get better!!

They nailed what it's like to struggle with an eating disorder, especially when your body doesn't fit that of a scrawny teenage girl. Eating disorders are brutal and deadly, regardless of size.

I have an ED and I love how this shows that EDs can affect any age, both genders, and weight. It also shows that emotional abuse can be just as traumatizing as any other form of abuse.

i absolutely love that they used the therapist as the one who was struggling because the reality is that just because we do our best to help others doesn’t mean we always can help ourselves. therapy is so important ESPECIALLY for therapists. it cannot be said enough that everyone needs help from time to time.

"Oh , Iggy." My heart. I just want to hug him.

I had parents like that who were negative with me. I’m 63 now they’re gone and I still hear their words in my head. The bad stuff is easy to believe!

Love Laurel, she's such a good friend and understands him because she went through something similar as a drug addict, and Iggy was there to support her, so now she's doing it in return

This hits way too close to home. My mom has confronted me in the past when she realizes I haven’t been eating. The amount of shame I feel when I eat anything was (and still is) overwhelming. Watching this is heart wrenching

I like Iggy, is so sad what happens here because he is a kind-hearted person

When I received inpatient treatment for an eating disorder, there were males in program as well. Eating disorders are NOT an issue that affect only women and girls.

Eating disorders affect men women different weights different ages... it's ALWAYS serious.. it's the deadliest mental health disorder 😢

Have a cousin that has the same problem. When we were younger I noticed that he was making himself vomit and found out that people at school for making fun of him because of his size. He's since been able to go on a healthy diet and exercise. He's happy at his size and with himself now.

Parents do not realize the damage they do

I feel Iggy‘s pain. I was body shamed my whole life not just by my mother, but my entire family body shamed me constantly calling me a pig calling me an animal a slob just because of my weight. The Abuse, my mistreatment wasn’t quite to that level, i’ve been forced to exercise, and having pictures taken of me, but the verbal abuse, and the body shaming was a lot worse. And when I would deliberately starved myself to guilt trip them, they only treated me worse. They would say oh you’re only losing 5 pounds and you brag like crazy and then you gained 50 pounds and claim that you lost five. They didn’t just make fun of my weight, but they made fun of my Stimming because I’m on the autism spectrum., Also, because of my self advocacy, I was discriminated against even more as my family felt that I had no right to advocate for myself, because I’m autistic, and I by advocating for myself, while being disabled, only caused them to become more controlling and more authoritarian and more and more of my privileges in rights were taken away as a punishment for self advocating

It’s about time that we approached the subject of men and eating disorders

Sometimes people go.into psychiatry to help understand their own illness...as an x self harm and anorexic I've read so much about psychology.. like a psychologist without a degree..

When I was about 8,5 years old, right after my sister was born, I started gaining weight. My mum grew up believing that it's impossible to be happy when you're fat. In her mind, she was helping me by berating me whenever I gained weight. She would put me on the scale every morning and sometimes even hit me if I had gained weight. She would restrict my meals and judge me for everything that I ate. She learned to do so from my grandmother, who judged my mum when she was little. I didn't need a scale to know if I gained weight. I would know whenever I visited my grandmother. She would give every grandchild a piece of candy, but skip me because I didn't need the extra calories. I'm 35 and I'm still not past it. Man, this clip just brought all those memories right back.

This is why I'll never have kids. I refuse to repeat the cycle of abuse.

i know I am not a doctor, but if you’re struggling from an eating disorder, I promise and hope things will get better. an eating disorder is more mental than physical and I want to let you know I am here, i don’t know all of the facts, and maybe you have different reasons for your disorder, but I am here for you, ❤

My mother makes me feel ashamed of everything I do in my life. Anytime she sees me just sitting there she keys me to get up and fo something productive. I remember one time my mom said something that made me so angry I wanted to buy a tub of ice cream and eat it all. People say all the time that you need to have a healthy lifestyle and they think that means eating healthy but it could also mean being around people who make you feel good. Like how my boyfriend makes me feel. He's more fit than I could ever feel but he never nor will he ever make me feel ugly, disgusting or less and that is why I love him.

I’m 24 and I go through this body shaming constantly in my household and it’s insane how easy it is to believe the horrible words coming from someone who’s supposed to lift you up not tear you down but it’s crazy not wanting to eat because others words make you believe it’s your own words and make you feel ashamed and even now I struggle to truly love myself and my body cause when I look at myself I say “wow I’m ugly”

This hit SO hard... I was 8yo when I started starving myself because of my mum's words and one of the last things my dad ever said was being frustrated over me not wanting to eat... I'm 36 now and I can still remember those words like yesterday... To those with EDs, you are NOT alone and I'm proud of you for still being here no matter what you weigh ❤️ You deserve to get help and you mean so much more than your weight no matter what your brain tells you ❤️

Men suffer from ED, although it is not brought to our attention the way female suffering is. The father put his own problem on his son's shoulders, impacting his son's attitude towards binging and starving. A human problem which is mental and physical, is one feeding the other. I do hope someday a cure is found so people do not have to suffer anymore.

All addictions will destroy you in at least one of three ways if you can’t control it: physically, financially or legally.

A teacher in high school would always fat-shame me, even though my weight was considered normal. It's a miracle I didn't end up with an ED.

This is why I hate why those “7 day fasts” get promoted to people. That’s not a “fast” that’s an earring disorder.

Even though it’s great that shows how men suffer with bingeing and restricting, it would be nice to see muscle dysmorphia get a note in at least one show. It’s something I think many men will relate too but it’s never brought up.

I can’t stand parents that will knowingly bully their kids and with a straight face believe that it’s for their benefit.

As someone in recovery from anorexia and bulimia I can relate, but eating disorders don’t just affect young females it can affect anyone at any age or time in there life

I've had an eating disorder for 34 years, caused by my stepmum who repeatedly told me how fat I was. I moved in with her, my dad and their two kids when I was 16. I didn't really know any of them, even my dad because they lived in Kuwait first, then west Germany. My dad was in the British Army which meant that I only saw for him for a few days every 2 years or so but abuse living at my mother's house got so bad I went to live with my dad. The day after I arrived my stepmum said she was going to measure me for a new bra and for my school uniform. When she was done I was putting my top back on and she walked out of the bedroom and announced my size and that I had big boobs, 36dd. Immediately after I heard laughing, a lot of laughing. I went into the hallway and saw my dad had come home and brought at least 10 soldier colleagues with him and they were all laughing at me. From that day on I started throwing up after each meal, skipped lunch at school, didn't barely eat more than 400 calories a day and I still didn't lose weight. Exercising every day for hours and still didn't lose weight. My stepmum refused to buy me clothes because I was too fat. My dad was rarely home so it was just her. After 7 months i tried to kill myself because of her and was sent back to the UK to be homeless. I'm still fat, highest weight ever even though I exercise a lot, eat 600 calories a day and throw up all of it.

Nice to see them explore this character. I love watching Mr. Labine.

I love the representation of eating disorders in men. EDs can impact ANYONE, no matter their age, gender, race, or weight. I think there's a lot of pressure on men to look lean and muscular, to have this very specific diet and work out constantly with no breaks or cool off, and we don't talk enough about how this is causing EDs in so many men.

My eating disorder symptoms started at 9 also form my dad. But my suicide attempt was when I was around 6 or 7.

My dad became a health fanatic after his uncle passed away, and for some time he’d make jokes about my belly too. My mom also had a bit of a health obsession too, and for a long time I saw my body shape as something to hate too because the wouldn’t stop talking about it. Things are thankfully better now and watching the show Sweet Home helped me get over most of the self-loathing, but a little of it still comes back every now and then. While I understand the importance of keeping healthy, its characters like him (and ironically my own parents) that remind me of the damage that comes with caring too much

I have an eating disorder, and I used to say stuff like this to myself when I would binge eat, but now I barely eat a meal a day, what sucks is people assume I eat a lot because I'm fat, which just makes me feel worse

I love these clips. Just found there show on next pics. Time for a binge!!!

I had an ed from a young age I’m in recovery now this is so relatable I feel his pain 😢

Why is this so relatable?

I know what it’s like growing up in a family who does that stuff. It is *hard* to get through…

Starved myself off and on in college. Anyone who commented on my thinness I would say "I'm fine", too. Kept doing it for years. When my mother noticed right after I graduated laughed sort of hysterically and said 'well, at least im not fat!" When i switched to drinking too much alcohol, and she said, one night, that maybe i shouldn't leave/drive home to my apartment, I laughed even harder - my parents were daily drinkers. It was all pain. I don't have a normal relationship with food, but I did get sober. One day at a time. I eat on a schedule during the week, or try to, to do my best to eat regularly and not get into super-low blood sugar I still have to sometimes stop and think about it - I'll be panicky or otherwise emotionally way off-kilter and realize its been 6 or more hours since I ate anything. The damage and the struggle are real.

I feel very seen by this. I would have freaked out if someone would confront me like that

my mother weighed 300 lbs when she was a teenager. She weighed 225 throughout my teenage years. every day i was told i was fat; if i wore a loose shirt, she’d say it’s cuz i was fat and didn’t want people to count my rolls. She loved bringing me to plus size departments even though i fit in medium clothes perfectly fine. If i ate, i was a pig and if i didn’t i was starving for attention. People like that are just miserable because they choose to be miserable

How ironic after Iggy helped Bloom face her past and get over her drug addiction, it was Bloom that helped Iggy later.

iggy was so sad I haven't seen the show but was this after the episode with the 9 year old physchopath

I remember I had just given birth to my daughter only 2 days earlier. My mom came by to see me and said, "you still got that stomach?" It made me feel so low and depressed.😢 I am still self conscious about my body around my mom. She has made comments about my body. I only weighed 139 at 9 months pregnant.

"It's the thing about myself that feels the most true. How do you stop believing that?" oh god, I hate his dad for instilling such a false belief in him

Emotional abuse and acting disgusted by how your child looks are vile. When it is almost a daily occurrence it leaves scars so deep. Our current society is so obsessed with looks and body type, that it is unprecedented how all superficial dealers like plastic surgeons, eyelash salons, body modifications, hair with extensions and color, makeup, etc. Obsessions are addictions for those out there who are looking at the money made and not the clearly troubled person wanting their 10th surgery to fix an alleged flaw or a continuation of forcing their body and face into their celebrity crush. It is not okay. It is a multibillion-dollar-a-year business to create the look the consumer craves. This scene is powerful, and it has a message to all of us. Be your best but do not obsess. There is being healthy and being obsessed with weight to the point you become unrecognizable. There is a person on KZfaq who has a massive audience as they appear so emaciated and anorexic that KZfaq should be ashamed of letting this person run full tilt towards death. Love who you are as there is freedom in being an individual versus having a herd mentality.

I love Iggy. He has such a great heart. He reminds me of Dr. Wong from Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.

OMG I relate to this so fucking much the same childhood.

After a childhood of a "highly restricted diet" I had a regular feed-fast cycle as a young adult at university. Occurred in rhythm with my cycle. Sometimes I was ravenous and sometimes I just wasn't hungry. No wonder people asked if I had ED

I miss this show.

I’m recovering from anorexia.. I feel his pain

In my case since i am a tall person 6ft 1 1/2 almost 6ft2 I was already feeling left out being Tall and than when i gained so much weight i looked way to intimdating, people you used to say i am like a big mobster type, i still remember when iwas in college two girls walked by me and they whispered (loudly) i looked monstrous. It stings man, it really stings, now i lost over 30kg and i still feel ashamed of my body cause of that(there are other factors but that is one on of em) so yeah i do feel iggy's pain to a point. the only difference is that at least most of my family accepted me so he is still worse. His father was projecting his insecurities onto him. Which is way worse.

I was a young child when my stepmother started to shame me-my body, my character, my NAME-and my father would watch it all and would even agree with her. I am 16 now, and I live with my mom and stepfather permanently, yet I skip some of my meals all because I can still hear my father and stepmother telling me that I’m fat for a seven year old (like lunch and breakfast). Funnily enough, my father and stepmother would force me to consume large amounts of food within small amounts of time; they were also the reason why I lost 15-20 lbs off of anxiety within two weeks.

Nailed it.

Good acting

I think i mildly had/have this. Like, i don't hate myself so much, but i did have shame towards all i was eating, and i would hide to eat or keep snacks on my school bag, and reach for them as silently as possible so my family didn't know. My mother was also obcessed wit my weight since my peditrician told her i was overweight at 6 yo and the control never stopped from there.

To be honest, exercising and obsessing over weight generally doesn't bring productivity. I get this video is about eating disorders but when I listen to Iggy talk about his past with his dad, it sounds like his dad kept thinking of weight as a number and the outward appearance represented that. His dad couldn't grasp the idea that maybe it wasn't people making fun of him for being fat(still wrong if they did). Perhaps they were commenting on why his dad had so much weight but it wasn't used for muscle. Do we call sumo wrestlers disgusting pieces of fat despite them clearly being very strong? There's a trope called stout strength that points out strength is directionally related to mass. So instead of exercising to gain muscle/endurance, it was just them burning calories for the sake of achieving a body that sounds... relatively plain. Sometimes people judge a guy how much he lifts and can excuse he has some weight on him. So neither the dad or Iggy got anything out of it but just obsessive trauma. I went from 132ish lbs to 174(and I've shrunk back down to 163 at the moment) lbs and only look mildly "bad" because a good amount of that was muscle gain and lifting heavier weights. Most of my "fat" is stored in my stomach where it should be while I'm muscular/thin everywhere else. Do I somewhat miss weighing under 135 lbs? Maybe sometimes. But all in all I don't mind I gained weight if it honestly meant I got stronger in the process. It feels good to have those extra capabilities I didn't have before and I continue to exercise as much as I can. My heroes from video games, tv shows, etc were strong people. If I can be even just a fraction of them, I see it as a good thing. I'm not trying to downplay Iggy's ed or his trauma with his arguably uncaring father. I just want to point out weight can be an opportunity to get stronger. Fat can be overall temporary if it means you can reach a new benchmark in strength. Obviously you want to keep weight gain in check but sometimes we need to accept weight gain is a necessary part of life. I don't think I could lift 135-140 lbs for the incline bench press if I stayed weight 132 lbs. If my weight loss regiment continues, I think I'll stop at 150-155ish. I don't need to push myself to weighing 132 lbs again. Another thing worth pointing out is Iggy's actor is 6 feet. They don't show us flashbacks but it's reasonable to assume Iggy was possibly tall as a child. If Iggy's dad still considered him fat as a child... it makes it sounds like Iggy's dad didn't even think about Iggy's height being a thing. Essentially Iggy's dad was trying to put a weight range standard on him equal to children anywhere from 2-5 inches shorter than him. For christ's sake that isn't biologically reasonable at all. Tall/taller people are meant to weigh more than average or shorter people. Iggy's dad condemned Iggy to a life of pain for still nothing. Always always consider height when it comes to weight.

His father sounds like a sociopath.

In the eyes of some people he is not fat at all but fucking gorgeous 😍❤

This is so funny, sad, and relatable.

Boi suffering from a ed is no joke, I have to remind myself to eat with a timer.

I need help. I have this and i can't stop. I go without eating for days. I hate food. I struggle to eat and swallow. I don't want to be this way. 😭 😭😭😭😭

Im heavy guy too. Im trying to loose weight or st the least stay healthy enough that i wont need pills and a heart medicine. But i even been told by women that im handsome, but i refuse to believe it.

Iggy's dad is not exactly a monster. But he did transfer his self hate onto his son. Which is messed up

Ummm I do this all the time. Call myself fast and fissuring right as I'm about to eat food.... I didn't know it was wrong... I thought that's the only way I'll be able to control myself

oh the poor man-child, how dare his father tell him obesity is bad, we should all be 450lb toilet-busters, it's the healthiest thing imaginable

It's odd isn't it. I'm a thirty-something man, not fat but not thin, functional all day every day, yet I have an ED. Have had it for decades. Nobody believes me. Not even doctors.

Sound like Karen Carpenters.

Seems to me your dad still controls you.

He’s literally talking to somebody that’s probably 100 pounds soaking wet

Making ppl think fasting is harmful 🙄 …fasting is ZERO food/drink but WATER Fasting is a choice, not every fast is an ED

I'm sorry but someone who mentors people's issues but lacks the will power to face their own should play psychoanalyst. It's over-the-top pathetic, hypocritical, and defeating the cause of your purpose.

How does he not eat and still be overweight? Come on.

it clearly hasn’t been working 💀. or maybe it’s beds

bro is a faker