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'Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen had planned to swing their 18th birth twenty-four hour period on June 13 side by side. moreover when the much-hyped day arrived, Ashley was left to celebrate with come out her twin sister, starting poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel and then with a stumble to Mexico with two pals. One week later the reason for Mary-Skates absence became clear: The star, latterly the focus of speculation regarding her Increasingly frail- controling body, had been admitted to an unrevealed installing for manipulation related to an pick up disorder. â€Å"This is a challenge that Mary-Kate has made a decision to face,” ranks her rep Michael Poignant. â€Å"This is a challenge she will meet. ” The admission struck a sad and troubled note for Mary-Kate, who on with Ashley has turned their image as positive, clean-scrubbed post models into a duty empire that grossed much than $1 billion in gross sales work year. Yet to friends, family and even da y-after-day onlookers, the subject of Mary-Skates health has been a germ of concern In recent months. Although the small twins (Mary-Kate is 52″; Ashley Is 51 hold unendingly been slender, Mary-Kate appeared to be painfully thin of late.So widespread was the converse about her weight that the actress herself poked fun at It when the twins hosted the May 15 Saturday iniquity Live; playing paparazzi photographers, they shouted, â€Å"Mary-Kate, youre so near(a)? give a sandwich! ” Sadly, under the playfulness was a health crisis. â€Å" in that respect was an intervention,” says few unrivalled who has known the Olsen for several years, adding that the twins drive, Dave, and Mary-Skates therapist committed her to a treatment facility soon after her June 7 extravagantly school graduation. â€Å"They finally reached the point where they had to act. They didnt desire to find her dead on the embellish from not eating. Those close to the star say that there was no single concomitant that triggered the decision to look to professional treatment; rather, Mary-Skates problems had steadily worsened with time. One inauguration says that the change In Mary-Kate, who dates Boston University scholar David Guttenberg, 21 (his dad Is Trademarks studio expounder Jeffrey Guttenberg), root became evident two years agone. â€Å"She looked different,” says the source. â€Å"She essential circles under her eyes. ” Staging the intervention out front Mary-Kate turned 18 meant that her parents still had a legal right o seek treatment for her.It isnt the first time her family has tested to aid Mary-Kate, whom close pals call MS. concord to one source, after the actress got into a squirt car accident about a year and a half ago her father tried motivating her to eat by telling her she couldnt get her non-white Range Rover back until she gained some weight. An another(prenominal) source says the family hired soul to monitor Mary-Sk ates eating. â€Å"Sometimes she was taken out of school to eat,” says a former classmate at Campbell Hall high school. â€Å"During the last year she had an adult eating with her almost of the time.Everyone knew how skinny she was. ” disorder],” says director Dennis Gordon, who helped the twins spring comedy New York Minute. â€Å"l had a dissever of meals with her, and it didnt seem there was anything wrong. ” Adds Dir. Drew Pinky, the TV psychologist turned actor who played the twins father in New York Minute: â€Å"She was the sweetest of the two. simply I didnt come upon anything. She; hid it well. ” Such joke is typical behavior among eating-disorder sufferers, some of whom go to elaborate lengths to disguise their problems. â€Å"Everyone was very godforsaken with Mary-Kate at first,” says a source.Shes lied so much and for so big. Its part of the illness. ” In fact, both Mary-Kate and Ashley flatly denied such problems in an interview with PEOPLE in April. â€Å" existence in the public eye, youre labeled that you save an eating disorder,” Ashley said at the time. â€Å"You bemuse a drug addiction,” said Mary- Kate. â€Å"We dont have problems! ” declared Ashley. The fraternal twins?MS has long been known as the free-spirited one; Ashley as the sophisticated one?have also put on a united front dealing with other recent challenges, including the dismal $13. 7 gazillion box office for New York Minute. We ere actually disappointed,” says Gordon. â€Å"They were incredibly mature about it. They said, ‘Okay, I guess we cant open a flick Just yet. Next! ‘ ” Showbiz vets since making their accounting entry on Full House at Just 9 months old, the girls have long been praised for their occupation savvy and solid grounding. But others have wondered if the seek placed on their slender shoulders would eventually take a toll, as it has on other schoolgirli sh Hollywood stars (see sidebar). â€Å"The stuffs of the entertainment and fashion business are pressures that Mary-Kate and Ashley both have always thrived on,” says a friend.That said, â€Å"theres no doubt that the pressure of being successful, running a business and planning for college?thats a lot. ” Still, adds the friend, â€Å"l dont cypher you can draw a true line between the pressure in nobodys life to this sort of illness. ” Says Carolyn Costing, the director of the eating Disorder Center of California and the three-card monte Indo Treatment Center in Malibu: â€Å"We look at it like theres a gun, a bullet and the trigger: The gun is biologic predisposition, the culture is the bullet and something like the stress of being a celebrity is what pulls the trigger.Not component matters is the ever-present skinny sweepstakes among schoolgirlish women, many of whom worship stars like Mary-Kate as a source of â€Å"administration,” Shortly af ter Mary-Skates port at a May premiere, mesh surfers on a bulletin mount up at guru. Com posted messages like, â€Å"Im convinced shes Ana [a dissipate term for anorexic]! ” Another online follower took notice of Mary-Skates red string bracelet, which some teens and young adults wear as a manoeuvre of their â€Å"Ana” pride and to remind themselves not to eat. (Her reps receipt: â€Å"l dont believe thats true [of Mary-Kate]. â€Å")\r\n'