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Suicide Attempt Cut


There was a suicide attempt during filming. I wonder why they decided to delete that scene?

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*I know I'm replying really late*
But... if you go to Lauren Greenfield's personal website, the deleted scene is there. I suppose they cut it because it broke up the continuity of the film and distracted viewers from the aspect that it's a documentary on eating disorders, not suicides. The girl survived... she was abusing inhalants or something. Not much was really shown.

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Yeah I saw it, that's why I was wondering why they cut it.
It wasn't that interesting but I would say it was quite important.

Really tells you a lot about the girl too. If i'm not mistaken she tried to kill herself with her young child in the house. I might be thinking of something else since I saw this a while ago but i'm pretty sure it was this.
In any case she should have had her kid(s) taken off her a long time ago, what a shame.

Doesn't matter that the replies are late, where did you all come from lol Was it recently on tv ?


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They seemed to avoid the really sad stuff in general. Polly, Alissa and Shelly, as ill as they were, weren't living skelitons. There were a handful of girls in the background of the story and the shots who were. The ultimate message had to be one of hope. Some of those girls looked hopeless.

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