![]() ![]() She explains the former as an untamable monster, whereas the latter is a stricter, slowly creeping beast:īulimia scared the hell out of me. Somehow, it opened the door to an eleven-year long oscillation between bulimia and anorexia. ![]() Simply out of curiosity, she gave purging a try one day while watching the Brady Bunch and eating Fritos. I was mesmerized by how her eating disorder started. She became bulimic at the age of nine, influenced by various sources, including her mother’s eating habits and comments rooted in low self-esteem. You want handfuls and handfuls of salt.” Hornbacher was dehydrated and malnourished because she had a severe eating disorder. You will scream at the nutritionist… because you only get one of those little teeny packets of salt with your meal. In her bestseller Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, she explains, “Dehydration, induced by both incessant vomiting and a lack of nutrients, makes you crave salt in the worst way. ![]() Can you imagine such a combination? Can you imagine eating this and only this for a period of your high school education? Marya Hornbacher did. ![]()
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