"I was absolutely terrified of boys. I had no idea what the girls were doing when they'd be like taking their t-shirts off with the boys behind the cabin and sticking tongues into the boys' mouths," she says. "For me, stopping eating was both a way to try to stay close to her and also a way to break away from her a bit at the same time in a very confused way without hurting her feelings" She adds that Anorexia is a great way of staying a child.
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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