Anorexia is suffered very largely by women. So this attitude that it's just silly girls wanting to look like fashion models just shows how low respect is for girls and women. The culture provides the lexicon through which girls and women can express themselves. Of course, you know, the anorexic will latch on to anything that justifies what they're doing. But I'd never seen a fashion magazine when I stopped eating. It was totally, totally irrelevant to me.
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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