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Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen had planned to spend their 18th birthday on June 13 side by side. But when the frequently-hyped day arrived, Ashley was left to celebrate with stunned her meet sister, low poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel and then with a Jaunt to Mexico with two pals. whizz week later the reason for Mary-Skates absence became clear The star, recently the instruction of speculation regarding her Increasingly frail-looking body, had been admitted to an undisclosed facility for treatment related to an take disorder. This is a challenge that Mary-Kate has made a decision to face, says her rep Michael Poignant. This is a challenge she will meet. The admission struck a sad and impress none for Mary-Kate, who a foresighted with Ashley has turned their image as positive, clean-scrubbed role models into a argumentation empire that grossed more than $1 billion in gross revenue last year. Yet to friends, family and even casual onlookers, the subject of Mary-Skates health has been a source of concern In recent months. Although the petite twins (Mary-Kate is 52 Ashley Is 51 take on always been slender, Mary-Kate appeared to be painfully thin of late.So widespread was the talk some her weight that the actress herself poked fun at It when the twins hosted the May 15 Saturday dark Live playing paparazzi photographers, they shouted, Mary-Kate, youre so skinny?eat a organize Sadly, beneath the playfulness was a health crisis. There was an treatment, says someone who has cognize the Olsen for several years, adding that the twins sire, Dave, and Mary-Skates therapist committed her to a treatment facility briefly afterwards her June 7 highschool school graduation. They finally reached the point where they had to act. They didnt trust to find her dead on the floor from not eating. Those close to the star say that there was no single Incident that introductioned the decision to set about professional treatment rather, Mary-Skates problems had ste adily worsened with time. One source says that the exchange In Mary-Kate, who dates Boston University student David Guttenberg, 21 (his dad Is Trademarks studio expounder Jeffrey Guttenberg), first became evident two years ago. She looked different, says the source. She developed circles under her eyes. Staging the intervention before Mary-Kate turned 18 meant that her parents still had a legal counterbalance o seek treatment for her.It isnt the first time her family has tried to upkeep Mary-Kate, whom close pals call MS. According to one source, after the actress got into a small car accident about a year and a half(a) ago her father tried motivating her to eat by coition her she couldnt get her black Range Rover back until she gained some weight. some other source says the family hired someone to monitor Mary-Skates eating. Sometimes she was taken out of school to eat, says a former classmate at Campbell Hall high school. During the last year she had an adult eating with h er most of the time.Everyone knew how skinny she was. disorder, says conductor Dennis Gordon, who helped the twins spring comedy New York Minute. l had a lot of meals with her, and it didnt come out there was anything wrong. Adds Dir. Drew Pinky, the TV psychologist turned actor who played the twins father in New York Minute She was the sweetest of the two. But I didnt notice anything. She hid it well. much(prenominal) deception is typical behavior among eating-disorder sufferers, some(prenominal) of whom go to elaborate lengths to cover their problems. Everyone was very angry with Mary-Kate at first, says a source.Shes lied so much and for so long. Its part of the illness. In fact, both Mary-Kate and Ashley flatly denied such problems in an interview with PEOPLE in April. Being in the public eye, youre labelled that you scram an eating disorder, Ashley said at the time. You capture a medicate addiction, said Mary- Kate. We dont have problems declared Ashley. The frater nal 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 million box purpose for New York Minute. We ere really disappointed, says Gordon. They were incredibly mature about it. They said, Okay, I adventure we cant open a movie Just yet. Next Showbiz vets since making their intro on Full House at Just 9 months old, the girls have long been praised for their business savvy and solid grounding. But others have wondered if the tautness placed on their slender shoulders would eventually take a toll, as it has on other juvenile Hollywood stars (see sidebar). The pressures of the entertainment and fashion business are pressures that Mary-Kate and Ashley both have always thrived on, says a friend.That said, theres no uncertainty that the pressure of cosmos successful, running a business and planning for college?thats a lot. Still, adds the friend, l d ont think you can draw a straight railroad line between the pressure in nobodys life to this sort of illness. Says Carolyn Costing, the director of the consume Disorder Center of California and the Monte Indo Treatment Center in Malibu We look at it like theres a gun, a bullet and the trigger The gun is biological predisposition, the culture is the bullet and something like the stress of being a celebrity is what pulls the trigger.Not helping matters is the ever-present skinny sweepstakes among young women, many of whom worship stars like Mary-Kate as a source of administration, Shortly after Mary-Skates appearance at a May premiere, Web surfers on a bulletin board at guru. Com posted messages like, Im convinced shes Ana a slang landmark for anorexic Another online follower took notice of Mary-Skates red string bracelet, which some teens and young adults wear as a signal of their Ana pride and to remind themselves not to eat. (Her reps response l dont believe thats true of Mary -Kate. )