I'm not saying other people haven't been through a lot?! The thread is about Nikki being upset about her anorexia... It's a horrible illness and I don't understand people not being able to feel a little sympathy for here, even if she isn't their faveourite housemate!

An illness that her Mother and her said got worse because she went in the Big Brother house and she would never go back in again.

SHe's battled with anorexia since she was 8 and has nearly died several times! Anorexia isn't something tha you just grow out of... that fear of putting on weight will be with her for life. Yes she'll have phases when she will appear ok, but like any mental illness, her anorexia can be triggered at any time.

off course we have sympathy for anyone with an illness,the only thing that annoys ,is when they keep bringing it up to get people feeling sorry for them,its the same on the x factor, im doing it for me mam, shes only got one leg and half a kidney,we can do without all that :devil:

Never said I didn't have any sympathy, I just wonder about the double standards.

Yeah ok.. I agree with that.But to say in Nikki's favour, her anorexia isn't really something she keeps bringing up is it? I've never heard her talk openly about it in the BB house...
She may act like a spoilt brat most of the time,but she does not strike me as a sympathy seeker at all. :)

What double standards?

I'm not saying she's not an attention seeker, but from I have seen, she doesn't use her ilness as a way of getting sympathy

If she had her little breakdown in the morning, or nightime I would have had more sympathy,but to have it spot on livefeed just her and vanessa in the kitchen camera full on them is a bit suspect,to say the least:shocked:

Number 1: she was in the garden not the kitchen when she broke down.

Number 2: there are cameras everywhere in the big brother house lol

Number 3: You would have more respect for her if she cried at night or in the morning? lol

It wasnt a planned thing. She talked openly about her illness and im sure any young girl suffering with anorexia would take comfort in someone being so open and frank about it on national television.

Number 4: :rolleyes:

Awwww, bless her. I hope it makes it onto the highlights show tomorrow!

Im sure it will be on the highlits show,lets face it [there,s not much else going on] if you are right ill eat my laptop.:hugesmile:

Sunshine talked about things like that as well, few seemed to have sympathy for her.

I was moved to tears last night when I watched the highlights show. One of the best Nikki moments ever, so honest and genuine. How she cried and Vanessa hugged her....! They are both lovely. Nikki to win! x

She's not my favourite but she is complicated and has real problems which probably explains some of her behaviour - I like the way Vanessa takes the time to listen and talk to her rather than dismissing her, like Ulrika

It was quite funny watching Vanessa prentending she gives a ****

This is so very true, Ulrika is always dismissing everything that Nikki says.

I have respect for her recovering from Anorexia, really I do. But it just seems like a very desperate ploy seeing as it's the final week.

Nikki's VERY self-aware. She knew where the cameras were in BB7, she was always in and out of the DR, and even her own fans realised when she came back during BB7 that she was playing up to the tantrums and falling for Pete.

But she isnt playing on her tantrums now which as you imply she did to add to her popularity.

And she didnt bring her anorexia up it was Vannessa who prompted the conversation

I've deleted the pointless arguing and some of the more inflammatory posts, if it continues it'll be heavy infractions for ALL involved.

As for the topic at hand, I thought it was a very moving conversation and I genuinely believe that it was real, Nikki has faked her behavior in the past (last week of BB7) but I don't think she has played up her behavior much in UBB and she's only talked about Anorexia once so I doubt it was a ploy as she would have spoken about it a lot more if she had.

People have grounds to say a lot about Nikki but I think that when it comes down to her anorexia, I don't think it's fair to say she's faking when she's only talked about it once. If that's the case why has Chantelle & Preston or Ulrika come under fire for repeatedly discussing their past nearly every show?

Can't believe my post was deleted it wasnt "pointless" i was making valid points.

This is a forum isnt it?

Totally agree! Nikki is genuine and sweet. I was touched.

It was a part of an argument and a fair few of your own posts towards Truck was as aggressive as some of his towards you. If you want to discuss this further then PM me.

At the end of the day I deleted all the posts in the argument from a neutral perspective. I can't pick and choose which posts to keep as people would only see that as biased.

By that I meant she did that during her second stint on BB7 and her tantrums are a big reason why she's memorable/popular. The fact she played on that sort of stuff last time is indicative that she's aware of public opinion. And this time she's toning them down but still has the odd few.

Even if Vanessa got the ball rolling, the ball's in Nikki's favour

It's also worth mentioning, in her defence, that saying someone was like that a few years ago doesn't 100% mean they still act the same way and that she's definately still playing up to some features.

'Nasty' Nick isn't so nasty any more, but that could be argued he was never really 'nasty' in the first place. He just wrote a few names on a piece of paper and told a few lies, one being about a dead wife. It wasn't the best thing to say and he was a bit of a t!t, but in retrospect a lot of people agree the media coverage blew it out of proportion and made a bigger deal of it than it really was

I still think she's a got a strategy because even Nikki's fans thought she was doing things deliberately during her second BB7 stint, and openly declaring how proud she is to be there for the final week ever, will raise some eyebrows.