by Marya Hornbacher
Geez, Marya. Don't hold back or anything. (She did not.) What a ballsy, courageous book. And, as she touches on, needed. Eating disorders are so often glamorized: they make you thin! Disciplined and tragic and beautiful. It's all too easy to get poetic about it; it is all too easy to look at th...
Although I don't have an eating disorder, I could identify with some of the things Marya says here. She's very honest and doesn't try to sugar-coat anorexia or bulimia. In truth, you never fully recover from these conditions, and you can see her struggle with her past and her future in every page. I...
One day, a long time ago, I wrote a list of what I needed to do to fix my broken life. #1 was: Lose Weight.The End.