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The Cult of Diet Culture
Sounds Like A Cult
Anorexia Is the Highest Cause of Death in Any Mental Illness
"I've been obsessed with diets on a kind of swinging spectrum since I was about 11 or 12 when I first developed what I didn't realize at the time was severe and a rexia and orthorexia, which is a fear of food," she says. "When I was 26, like having been a very, very slim and celebrated and glorified for my fin, a celebrity in England between the age of about 22 and 26, I gained about 75, 80 pounds within a few months." She's now fighting back against weight loss companies who are offering her money to go on dieting programs that make her look even bigger.
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