"i wanted to just be the pretty girl who got the guy," she says. "I regret not actually just standing up and nd, saying what i really thought." She realized that knew elma as she was beginning to see herself. 'You can get what you want, but you have to give up other parts of yourself'
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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