An eating disorder claiming to be "Anorexia Nervosa" that objectively fails to meet actual DSM-V criteria due to lacking the required "intense fear of weight gain", and of not being medically "underweight".
Tessorexia can be distinguished from "OSFED" or the
Atypical Anorexia classification sub-type (which do not have the "underweight" requirement) in that a specific diagnosis of "Tessorexia" requires one to also meet four additional (non-DSM) criteria:
1) Seeking to further one's social media status,
2) Attempting to stay culturally relevant to one's Fat Acceptance and Body Positivity followers,
3) Appropriating "anorexia" from skinny
pro-ana girls (since anorexia sounds sexier than "OSFED"),
4) Positioning one's self to silence critics by proclaiming one is a "recovering anorexic" in contrary to their
Health at Every Size beliefs.
Tessie: I didn't eat (a
whole cake with my picture on it) for three days so I could be lovely. I just let all my social media followers know that I'm now officially a
recovering anorexic.
Sasha: No, you have Tessorexia.
