Fat Penn State Kicker Not So Funny Anymore, Posts Late Night On Facebook About Suffering From an Eating Disorder
Collegian PSU – Penn State kicker Joey Julius announced via his personal Facebook account that he was absent from the team from May throughout the summer because he had been receiving treatment for eating disorders.
Julius posted his message at 2:44 a.m. Monday to thank his coaches, training staff and all the doctors who helped him recognize his disorders.
In the post, Julius also offered to help anyone struggling with eating disorders.
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Well, this is why the internet can’t have nice things. I mean for the past 2 years this has been such a fun story, a little light-hearted ribbing of the big ass kicker on Penn State. Sure everybody called him “The Fat Kicker” but it was like a pet name, the guy is pretty much universally beloved and people go nuts for the Gifs of him flattening people.
But now it turns out he’s been dealing with a pretty serious eating disorder and had to actually miss practices and shit for it.
After a long consideration of not only myself, my family, and my team I have decided to go public about my absence from the team during spring ball of 2016 and thru out this summer. I was admitted into the McCallum place on may 9th for eating disorders. Due to my increase in not only weight but also depression and anxiety my team physicians started to notice not only a change in my overall happiness but also my performance as a normal human being. Throughout this whole process I learned a lot about myself. I learned that for the last 11 years of my life I have suffered through a disorder known as binge eating disorder. Although I showed signs of bilemia through stints of purging from extreme anxiety placed on myself I am certain that binge eating disorder is my true diagnosis thru extensive care this summer for about three months of treatment in St. LOUIS Missouri until July 26th. In order to come to this conclusion I have no one to thank except for Coach James Franklin and my training staff and doctors that stuck with me throughout this whole process. They all noticed that I was not myself and that I needed extensive care such as the program in St. Louis that I attended this summer. I love Penn State and everything about this program and school and continue to do what I can to bring not only respect but honor to the name that so many before me Sacrificed to create. WE ARE PENN STATE and forever will be PENN STATE! If anyone and I mean anyone guy or girl is struggling with the the same or anything similar please message me as I will be in immediate contact to help in any way i can to provide information or insight on my struggles and I would love to help. Praise be to God and thank him for my ability to be honest about this.
And now it’s just sad, and we all feel bad. Sucks.
RIP Fat Kicker, Long Live Joey Julius.