Flashback Files – Edie Sedgwick
I thought it would be fun to feature some celebrities from different eras on the site. Seeing as I just watched Factory Girl which was about the late Edie Sedgwick (the first ‘It Girl’) I thought maybe people were interseted in how she was so thin. I have been digging around and this is what I discovered about her.
Edie Sedgwick was a waif, she was incredibly thin and at one stage suffered from anorexia. She didn’t eat much as she was a heavy drug user. Her diet consisted of mainly alcohol, cocaine, uppers and downers or a deadly cocktail of them all (she ultimately died of an overdose).
Towards the end of her life she was so thin from all the drugs that she had to lie down to receive her heroin injection. If you stumbled across this page after looking up Edie Sedgwick’s diet and exercise regime then I’m sorry she didn’t have one. She never exercised.
For a healthy diet and exercise regime I recommend Lauren Conrad’s 1500 Calorie Day Diet. It’s been typed up in a printable chart for you!
Ladies don’t aspire to be as thin as Edie Sedgwick, she was a very ill girl. Check back in for more flashback files in the future (Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Judgy Garland etc)
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hi, i love edie so much. I just wanted to add that she did infact exercise, she did ballet and jazz-tap dancing every day (probably not when she was high though)lol. Shes actually wearing her leotard in your picture. I’m so glad you included her in your website, she so beautiful x
I LOVVEEE Edie Sedgwick and factory girl is my favorite movie. Thank you so much for posting this and i love that you chose a celebrity from a different era…keep em coming!
xoxox
Edie Sedgwick was an avid dancer. That’s why she’s always wearing those opaque black tights in so many pictures because she’d go out right after dance class just wearing what she was wearing. It ended up turning into a style. Also, her main drug of choice was amphetamine, which alot of people were addicted to in the 60s… wether it was diet pills or injected. Both of those reasons attributed to her being so thin.
From Edie: An American Girl: She loved to “pig” (binge then purge) and would eat shrimp, salad, milkshakes, Bloody Mary’s (with extra lemon) and Russian Dressing. According to a friend, she would eat healthy food, but “ten of whatever it was.”
edie was a dancer … what a shit someone wrote on this page?
“heroine”? heroin. and edie was addicted to — and got injections of – methamphetamine, commonly known as speed. not heroin.
Calm down, clearly a typo hun