I've met about 5 women who claim to be anorectic. I must say that i kinda grew suspicious about what is really going on when we went out and they would be like, "i don't eat' and the rest of the group would glare at her cause she is all skin and bones claiming to be on a diet making the rest of the women unable to eat cause she was looking at them in a weird way.

Sometimes when people aren't all over her asking her about her anorexia, she would suddently act ill and be okay right after people have turned their attention to her. I confronted one of them. When she said she is on a diet, i told her 'yeah you need to lose a few more' she got really angry and said 'you don't know how it's like'.

in my opinion, it sounds more like a Münchhausen syndrome. I knew someone with anorexia and the key thing was, she didn't know. She realised when we had an intervention for her, and she delt with it. She did start from dieting, but after, she just had no appetite without realizing she was loosing way more than needed. Also she wore full clothing, not the tight/short/child size/rib and bones revealing outfits the rest wore like the rest giving me me the impression that they will go to extreme limits for attention, mentioning their anorexia or what they ate for the past 2 days is an apple and that's it.

Is this really anorexia, or is it a Münchhausen syndrome?

Additional :

Sorry, i forgot to say what Münchhausen is.

It's a mental disorder where the patients would go to extreme limits to make themselves look sick or actually sicken themselves to get the attention and care of others.

they might even harm themselves, take medicaton which will ill them, cut themselves, or just make scenes like 'quick come a cat is drowning' while they are the ones that threw the cat in the lake.

Make up false stories, like someone's death, or an incident (like rape, attack, mugged).