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Yes, anorexia is self-starvation with vanity in mind. There are actually a fair amount of overweight people who are classified as anorexics and at the same time binge eaters and bulimics. I think one of the clinical requirements to be diagnosed with anorexia, at least temporarily, is to be eating less than 500 calories per day for at least three months straight.
The fear of weight gain is not always a factor in anorexia, though. A lot of clinical anorexics are extreme yo-yo dieters who go on fasts for months at a time, then binge and purge for a few days and return to starving themselves. It's all a rather vicious cycle.
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