Eilish McColgan ‘numb’ to body-shaming social media comments

Online comments suggest runner has eating disorder‘I am healthy, my body is healthy’

Eilish McColgan says she is “numb” to comments on social media about her body shape and warned of the dangers of associating her with eating disorders. The British long-distance runner highlighted the abuse she received this month after posting a video of her on a treadmill in preparation for her first London Marathon. Some comments suggested she had anorexia.

McColgan says she has a perfectly healthy body and feels linking her body shape to an eating disorder is dangerous for aspiring athletes to see. “I’m numb to it now, it doesn’t affect me,” she said. “The reason I call it out is so people don’t think that is how they have to look to be an athlete. It is dangerous for people to see comments like that and think that is how you have to be.

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