Jenke of Wilmsdorff loves to the Extreme: In the context of his controversial self-experiment-show “The Jenke-Experiment” took the RTL reporters are already hard drugs, coped with everyday life in a wheelchair, lived in the jail and befuddled in the duration of the noise. In the Finale of the fourth season of the 50-Year-old in Prime time at 21.15 now to his physical limits: Jenke von Wilmsdorff, wanted to share how an eating disorder feels like.
“food is for many in Germany, there is a fight, it should be the most Normal thing in the world,” he explained at the beginning of the show. He wanted to know what it is that drives people to anorexia – one of the most common diseases in teenagers. However, the Experiment does not succeed on all levels.
weighs Three kg in seven days
at the beginning of Wilmsdorff 83 kilograms, 12 kilograms of fat. His abdominal circumference is 98 cm. His fitness condition is good, as his doctor confirmed. The radical diet: The first two weeks of the RTL-Reporter omitted completely to solid food. During the day he drinks water with a little taste, in the evening there is warm broth. Zero calories, every day.
Quickly the Hunger is reflected on the mood. “The first days were agony. My stomach hurt, I was in a bad mood”, whines of Wilmsdorff. After seven days, he has lost three kilograms, are not without consequences: The RTL-man is sick. “The body is supplied and can’t put up a fight against the germs to the military,” explains Markus Wilken, the eating disorders specialist diploma psychologist who supervised the Experiment.
However, von Wilmsdorff feels with every lost kilogram better. After two weeks, the abdominal circumference shrank by 7.5 inches, the scale indicates six kilograms less. The face is thinner, the stomach flatter. And of Wilmsdorff is proud of: “I like what I see.” Such sentences not only let the experts sit up and take notice. “Now it gets dangerous, this is the Moment in which he slips into anorexia. He thinks he has his body under control – but he didn’t,” says psychologist Wilken.
By Wilmsdorff slips into anorexia
Of Wilmsdorffs behavior is always extreme: he smells only purchased bread is without tasting it. Finally, he feels even joy in it, to bake a loaf of bread, he will never eat. He sits at a table in front of an empty plate. The extent to which these scenes are real or just for the audience staged – Jenke of Wilmsdorff is also an actor -is not quite clear.
After 19 days at seven kilos way to the shoulder, the tips of the bone are to be seen. “If you look at the picture of him, you see how empty his eyes have become”, was diagnosed Wilken. “His spirit of life disappears. Now we are pretty close to the anorexia.”
By Wilmsdorff, could not imagine at the beginning, as constant Hunger can drive one to the Addiction, from the drifts. During a visit to his mother, he eats a piece of plum-cake, driving then for an hour, sports and feels shabby: “The Trouble on the own failure predominates.” Two days later, he can resist it and be glad: “I feel even Like it to have a slight feeling of Hunger, but not to give in.” Now the expert is, however, of Wilmsdorff does not want to cancel.
On the last day of the experiment, the Reporter with the forces at the end, he creates a route once his usual Jogging. A Check at the doctor’s shows the shocking diagnosis: weakness of the heart muscle.
After 28 days, weighs Jenke of Wilmsdorff ten kilograms less (5.5 kg fat), abdominal circumference shrank to 85 centimeters.
RTL-remains documentary superficial
as shocking As the images of the experiment, the knowledge gain is limited. In short video clips, RTL, each of the facets of the disease, it’s trying to shed some light scrapes but only on the surface. So, speaking of Wilmsdorff, for example, with the 28-year-old Johanna, who suffers from both anorexia as well as bulimia: “life is not just eat, Puke, eat, Puke, the whole day, so that you can do nothing else.” However, the cause of their illness is not of Wilmsdorff.
scene: dozens of slim lingerie models strutting the bridge on a run. In order to have a character like this, not one had to hold back only the food, but also a lot of Sport, telling the protagonists. This is little surprising, because the propagated Bikini-Perfect with a dress size of XS is not the average woman, is likely to be any spectators clear (in the average woman by the way size 44). The minutes of airtime you would have better used, the individual fates of light even closer.
anorexia is a serious disease
The most contentious Moment of the experiment is to visit with a mother whose daughter suffered for years from anorexia. She lost eleven kilograms and was still too thick, at the end you had to go to a clinic. And while Wilmsdorff the sorry history of the family to listen, he sits in front of an empty plate – he’s not allowed to eat. How cynical.
in The end the fact remains: anorexia is a serious mental illness, which is not only for the Affected people but also for the relatives. It is to the credit of Wilmsdorff high that he deals with the disease in Prime Time, in order to make the consequences carefully.
But when the Reporter is excited several times about how nice and flat his belly had become, is also the voice of nothing, that the Experiment was “not recommended for imitation”. Because the you can easily lose control, has proven to be the Reporter before impressive. At the end of a stale aftertaste remains.
do you suffer from an eating disorder or suspect that a relative or friend could be affected? The information and the help of the Federal centre for health education (BZgA). There you will also find a list with nationwide consulting services.
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