On Friday, March 24 a news item ref:  Skinny model was put onto the forum front page.  An individual named ‘lily’ responded and continues to respond.  After reading through her posts I began to have doubts about this person since she seems not to be particularly addressing those responding to her queries or pleas for help. 

Because I was intrigued by this young girl I checked to have response alerts sent via e-mail.  Over a period of time I began to suspect that ‘lily’ may not be exactly as ‘she’ has painted herself.  On the other hand, she might be valid. 

I’ve included the SKINNY MODEL blog url, and have also edited for clarity here ONLY ‘lily’ posts and the particular responding posts to her.  (I have to paste into a couple posts here because of size.)  My last comment to her I have put into bold [here, not in the original].  I had wanted to see if the young woman would pick up on my inclination and respond to it but she didn’t.  What do you think? 

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/4051/

hey my name is lily.

i am 12 years of age. i wish i was thin. i havn’t eaten in 6 and a half days know. i want to be thin but how. i am in year 7. i have been on a proteen diet but it aien’t working….. i want to be pretty i want boys to like me i want a boy friend i want what skinny girls my age have! i want to be thin and not having to think about what i eat but eating any thing i want and staying thin….. ]

what can i do plz help .... from lily… xox
Posted by liy on Sun Mar 26, 2006 at 02:36 AM

[color=blue]Lily,

i ask my friends what a healthy 12 yr old should weigh they all say 60kg or less! hello i am not like this…. i wanns be 50kg… the only way i can do this is by lypo, bulimic, or being a annarexic.

it all started when i was in yr 4 when my teacher tols us that we are going to be weighed all of us for maths ( we were doing kg and g’s). it was my turn to hop on the scales i felt calm and happy cause i hadn’t weighed my self for ages and pluss i was only in yr 4 i didn’t care what i weighed. well i hoped on the scales and saw how much i weighed my teacher worte it all up on the bored every 1 in my class started laughing at me, then the teacher just said maybe is it because there broken or maybe it is because we are on carpet! i didn’t care about the carpet and stuff all i cared about was the fact that every 1 was laughing at me…. at the end of every 1 when every 1 was being weighed she said know we are going to but them in order from heavyest to littest. every 1 started screaming out my name! i for get what i did but i just felt like no one like me cause i wasn’t like the other girls 20kg light i was 60kg.

i want to be 50kg and i am 80kg….. i am eating a peice of bread for tea right know… i missed lunch and had breakfast…. i feel thinner and yer i can fit all my finngers around my rist!

bye bye plz help… from the young teen lily… ~xox!
Posted by lily on Tue Apr 18, 2006 at 02:59 AM

hey its lily again…

i am bored i have no 1 on msn…

and just to tell you all i doing dancing every day i do tap, jazz, nationals, ballet, modern, contempoery, hip hop, funk… i am so bored right know…. i am,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12!
and i am 80kg 80kg 80kg 80kg 80kg 80kg 80kg
hello i am fat fat fat fat fat fat fat fat fat fat fat fat fat fat fat fat!

lily is FAT! lily is FAT! lily is Fat!
lily is FAT! lily is FAT! lily is Fat!
lily is FAT! lily is FAT! lily is Fat!
lily is FAT! lily is FAT! lily is Fat!
lily is FAT! lily is FAT! lily is Fat!
lily is FAT! lily is FAT! lily is Fat!
lily is FAT! lily is FAT! lily is Fat!
lily is FAT! lily is FAT! lily is Fat!
lily is FAT! lily is FAT! lily is Fat!
lily is FAT! lily is FAT! lily is Fat!
lily is FAT! lily is FAT! lily is Fat!
lily is FAT! lily is FAT! lily is Fat!
lily is FAT! lily is FAT! lily is Fat!
lily is FAT! lily is FAT! lily is Fat!

i always write things like this down on paper then i put them in my diary!

bye bye love you plz help from lily ~xox~ mwa the teenager.
Posted by lily in australia on Tue Apr 18, 2006 at 04:05 AM

Lily, why do I get the notion you are not 12, probably not a teenager and you have carefully crafted your script here? The larger question is why?

Please accept my apology if I am in error but I do not think so. Your spelling is skillfully atrocious but appears to be artistically fabricated for effect while content, continuity or order appears to be not only above average but cadenced and choreographed by an experienced hand.
Posted by hulitoons in Abingdon, Maryland on Tue Apr 18, 2006 at 05:59 AM

Lily, please you are not fat. this is not good for you, you cant stress yourself
Posted by Eva in New York on Tue Apr 18, 2006 at 11:11 AM

hey its lily again,

i am so…. fat this is the only hope of me coming thin like the other girls in my yr! i go to a all girls school and there are 206 girls in my year! i am so….. fat, fat fat fat fat fat i wanna be thin!
i want to be pretty!

i do dancing every do! i sweet! i drink water…
some is any 1 there! am i going crazy! lolahahahah
this is the only way i can let my feelings out to the open…. maybe i should just end my life….

Posted by lily on Wed Apr 19, 2006 at 09:29 PM

Honestly?

I wouldn’t touch this one without a license to practice psychology AND a law degree.

Bebelicious - 20 April 2006 08:39 AM

Honestly?

I wouldn’t touch this one without a license to practice psychology AND a law degree.

Thank you!  I thought I was nuts but this one is starting to scare me and I honestly felt like I needed to post something where it might be more visible.

Hang on, so someone might be telling lies? On the internet?

Sue

Obviously you’re spending far too much thought on this.  It’s an anonymous person on the internet.  You’ll never know more than you do right now, which is nothing.  So why care?

For some reason, I think this is phony, but who really knows?

If real, the poor thing is certainly crying out for help!

Lying on the Internet?

Dan the Seeker of Truth and also Loose Women with low standards

Did I ever tell you I’m a British hooker who lactates vodka?

If this ‘lily’ were really a twelve year old with body image issues, why would she choose here of all places to post this? I’ve been a twelve year old with body image issues, and this would have been the last place I’d ever have talked about it.

P.S. Do they say year seven in Australia? I allways thought it was grade seven there. Maybe I’m crazy.

Nope, Year Seven is correct here.  We actually interchange “year” and “grade”, but I think “year” is more common.

I actually deleted a whole bunch of Lily’s comments before I saw this thread. I thought she was trolling.