Kirby: Do you look back at your life and think about the amount of time that this stole from you? Hadley: For me, the experience taught me to not waste any time. I didn't kiss a boy until I was about 19 years old. There was a lot of shame about this part of my life for a long time. But what I realized the older I get is that I'm not very special. And therefore I'm happy to share it.
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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