"Anorexia is when your life is controlled by food," she says. "So many people I know have little sprinklings of eating disorders." She adds that women are predisposed to anorexia because they think about food a lot. 'I'm for food to have control over your life,' the author writes.
Shortly after her fourteenth birthday, Hadley Freeman stopped eating. From the age of fourteen to seventeen, she lived in various psychiatric wards with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa. And for the next decade, the condition would revisit and interrupt her life in numerous ways. In conversation with journalist Bari Weiss and drawing on her new book Good Girls, Freeman recounts her harrowing account of this complex condition.
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