"It was like a performance piece. I loved getting to watch how i could affect men, you know, because i'd never affected them before," she says. "i really do feel like that woman deserved the love and attention that this sudden, like, thin version of me just automatically got without doing anything."
From the time she was a little girl, Elna Baker had dreamed of being thin. And she did become thin. She lost close to 100 pounds in five months. For a while Elna thought she was living her dream life, until she realized that she had lost herself in the process.
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