A few weeks ago Laura Novak wrote a piece about how emaciated Sarah Palin appears in her Iowa promotional video. (Promotion of what many of us still don’t quite uderstand but that’s off-topic here.) I too watched the clip and thought wow Sarah’s lost considerable weight.
Today I visited Palin’s Q & A and read this piece about how the conservative pundits (undoubtedly spurred on by Karl Rove’s latest sparring match with the Queen of Caribous) are becoming quite vocal in sharing their opinions concerning Sarah’s announcing her candidacy for 2012 or not. It’s become a genuine (sorry) shit or get off the pot moment in Sarah’s political career.
In the piece are links to conservative posts on the subject and while all were worth the read, one in particular found me leaning on the [print screen] button.
Because of age differences, only two of my daughters were ever teenagers at the same time. Anorexia and Bulimia came of age, making their public debut, in the middle and it turned into quite the family conversation as one of my teen daughters had a friend she suspected of being anorexic. Our family physician was also a family friend and I turned to him for consult. He gave me this rather old-fashioned bit of advice for spotting malnutrition in a civilized society:
If a person wears a necklace that doesn’t actually rest on the skin but is elevated away from the skin by the bone, there might be a problem. Actually many healthy women will have the necklace slightly raised by the clavical. If you know the person well enough slide a finger underneath. If you can do this without moving the chain, the odds increase that there’s a problem.
Again, if you know the person well enough, put your index finger on one side of the clavical and your thumb on the other – if you can touch your thumb to your finger with nothing but skin between them, call a doctor.
I’ve pulled two photos from the AP video, leaving one of each untouched and enlarging the neckline on a second set. I used the smooth skin option only to soften the harsh lines which occur with pixelation.
There is not an ounce of body fat between the clavical and upper portion of the scapula. Her necklace not only isn’t resting on skin it’s elevated enough to cast a shadow. Sarah Palin is not just thin-skinned emotionally – she’s thin skinned period. How can she possibly be healthy enough for a job as physically demanding as the presidency?
To whomever it is that owns Sarah – you might want to feed her!
Oz Mudflats 
August 26, 2011 at 7:32 pm
Sarah’s skin looks like dried up beef jerkey or rawhide leather. Something is wrong with her.
August 26, 2011 at 7:44 pm
The Bitter Quitter’s more deflated than her approval ratings. Her body’s starting to look as empty as her head. She should eat a lot more of that fried Iowan butter on a stick which she so enjoys.
August 26, 2011 at 10:20 pm
I posted this on another site recently…as a fellow runner myself, I rely on the powerful stress-relieving effects running provides me. I think that Palin spent the better part of the spring and summer literally running herself into the ground to cope with what be immense pressure (plummeting poll numbers, bloggers finding more and more Babygate evidence, Bachmann stealing her thunder,etc…) I have thought for a very long time that she’s bi-polar at least. I think she’s not eating enough, as the McCain people complained about during the campaign, but I have no doubt she’s been putting in serious mileage each week just to try to hang on psychologically. Alas, when one is as disturbed as Palin, running is simply not enough.
August 26, 2011 at 11:04 pm
it’s really hard to judge her neck etc. – she has had a LOT of plastic surgery.
August 27, 2011 at 12:47 am
What’s really sad to me is that she thinks that her extreme thinness is attractive. That’s partly due to our culture that elevates “skinny” to equate beauty. How pathetic! If she weren’t also so annoying and so dangerous, I’d be tempted to feel sorry for her.
August 27, 2011 at 3:14 am
Angiemomma: SHE IS NO RUNNER. PERIOD! Any ‘runs’ that she has joined in the past, SHE QUIT! (Remember the 5-mile walk/run with TriG, where she dropped out after a mile or two?)
I had noticed the neck also, too. Can’t make any sense of her back folds. Is that from one-too-many face-lifts?
We KNOW that she starves herself – the McInsane people have said so years ago! On top of starving herself, she also self-medicates (maybe with the help of some under-qualified nurse-assistant from that All-About-You Spa).
August 27, 2011 at 4:33 am
Maybe she got that quack doctor of hers cbj, to supply her with the pills her junkie ass needs
August 27, 2011 at 10:06 am
I can’t imagine that health club getting a lot of new business. Who would want to look like a walking scarecrow? Sarah Palin won’t be seen or heard from for several weeks–and then she offers her unasked for opinion on every subject under the son. It is almost like she spends time at the mental institution; gets her meds adjusted; and then she becomes hyper and tries to make up for lost time. We certainly don’t need a President who has the mood swings like Sarah does–nor do we need to have a Daddy’s girl, with a Dad who is more interested in selling stories about her being a victim than in her own welfare.
August 27, 2011 at 10:09 am
Not sure who is running this dog and pony show–it’s either Daddy Dearest or Todd trying to get Sarah out of the way. Pathetic that her family only values the money she brings in. Her kids on the reality show had no respect for anything she said or did–like they knew she was just a phony. Really sad that Sarah can’t see that she has become a joke and not a viable candidate.
August 27, 2011 at 10:46 am
Leave it to her bull-headed vanity to ignore the years of research and empirical evidence that tanning beds were so very bad for your skin and your health – she stubbornly and proudly hauled her bag of bones in those death panel machines and cooked away to appear tan.
Years of abusing her skin is showing full force, and her neck makes me cover up in sunscreen or clothing so that mine won’t look so aged in as little as ten years also too.
It’s mean to pick on her appearance, but this is not a normal woman. She’s a walking shop of horrors and her pathologies and destruction she wreaks makes it open season on her outside as much as her putrid insides.
August 27, 2011 at 12:52 pm
@ everybody who’s contributed thus far:
My main concerns are twofold regarding Sarah’s appearance/health. First of course is the concern that here is a woman presenting herself as the be-all, end-all solution to America’s problems – and she doesn’t even know how to take care of herself.
Beyond this however is a deeper concern and that is her celebrity status invites gullible people to emulate her in appearance and habit. How many ‘little Sarahs’ are out there living on redbulls and crunchwraps instead of getting proper nutrition into their bodies and then slogging off to tanning beds to do more harm?