They are sick, but they don’t see it as an illness. Her readers, she says, are “girls who are desperate in their anorexia and willing to do anything to lose weight.
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She posts her thoughts on calorie-counting, coping with hairloss and malnutrition, avoiding the “temptation” of food and how to conceal your eating disorder. Her aim is to provide “tips, tricks and information” for others who, like her, are in the grip of an eating disorder. At the top of the front page is a red banner with a white ribbon, which reads: “Anorexia is a lifestyle, not a disease”. She set it up when she was 14 and has thousands of followers around the world.
Although she studied social work at university but is now unemployed, “because of the obvious”. Now, whenever I stop eating, I just tell everyone I’m on a diet again. I put breadcrumbs on my plate to make it look like I had eaten. I purged my food, I hid it in my sleeves. Starving myself is a way to make it disappear, to vanish, to clean, purify and punish it. I find it impossible to live with my body, so I have always tried to separate myself from it. It lasted until I was 12 and it has made me hate my body. I was sexually abused by a family member from the age of five. The disgust I felt towards my body developed during a period of abuse. I became a vegetarian and decided that I wasn’t allowed sugar. By the age of 10, I had already invented lies about food allergies. When celebrating my birthday, I never wanted a cake I wanted healthy snacks and told everybody that I didn’t like sweets.
I remember playing tag in the schoolyard with my friends and running around because I wanted to lose weight. I got diagnosed with my eating disorder at the age of nine.
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