There are many factors that are reasons for teenagers to be susceptible to eating disorders. During the teenage years of people, this is the time of emotional and physical changes, academic pressures, and a greater degree of peer pressure.

There are interpersonal factors that can make teenagers vulnerable to eating disorder such as history abuse. Studies have shown that there are a high number of people suffering with eating disorder who have been examined with emotional, physical, or sexual abuse. This leads teenagers to find eating disorders help them and protect them by repressing or blocking out memories and or numb their feelings. Being teased for their size and weight like name calling, jokes, etc. when the teenager is growing up, he or she would be inclined to turn to or away from food as a coping mechanism. A traumatic life event may rise a eating disorder habit such as a result of death, loss, or abandonment. At their age, they have a less ability to cope and or mourn and this as will leads the teenager to cope by attempting to numb his or her feelings through restriction, bingeing, and purging.
It can also revolve around social issues, such as a cultural that places an exaggerating emphasis on appearance especially to be thin. Teenagers also tend to be unrealistic, and want to follow under the extreme standards of beauty, also social norms that base social acceptance and attractiveness only conforming to narrow physical standards. Teenagers try to fit in what we now consider a “perfect” body. The adolescents combine the pressure to be like celebrity role models with the fact that bodies grow and change during puberty, therefore teens start to develop negative view of themselves. Athletes and dancers are particularly vulnerable because they want to stop or suppress their growth during the time of puberty. Example Coaches, and even family