Diane Israel is much healthier now at the age of 47 than she was in her twenties when she had to spend months in bed due to an addiction to exercise and anorexic eating habits that almost claimed her life.

She's created a movie about the pressure for women to be thin and beautiful. In the film, we are also shown her relationship with her family, "a family that felt that maintaining the facade of a picture-perfect household meant everything". The film is called Beauty Mark and is being shown today at the University of Colorado as part of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. Israel is seeking a distributor to take the movie national.

The photo above was taken by photographer Nigel Barker of America's Next Top Model.