I had anorexia – but not because I wanted to look like a fashion model | Hadley Freeman

A French plan to ban skinny women from the catwalk ignores the fact that anorexia is an illness. We need to look at the causes not outcomes of self-loathing

Nobody ever asks me what it felt like. They never ask what it was like to spend three of my teenage years in secure psychiatric units for severe anorexia nervosa; how it felt to be so undernourished I could hardly walk; how it feels now to be able to picture the doctors’ and nurses’ faces more clearly than I can those of my late grandparents; how it feels to have spent my formative years with young women who are now, in so many cases, dead; how this experience changed my personality for ever. No, no one asks that. Instead they ask why: “Why were you anorexic? Why?”

Dr Sigman ignores the obvious possibility that behind eating disorders in women is a fear of being sexualised

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“Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss. Where we cannot go in our mind, our memory, or our body is where we cannot be straight with another, with the world, or with our self. The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties: all of us are afraid of loss, in all its forms; all of us, at times, are haunted or overwhelmed by the possibility of this.” (Whyte, D. 2015. Consolations. Many Rivers Press, Langley, Washington). I attended an AA meeting last Sunday morning where the subject of the meeting was honesty. Interesting questions were posed such as: “What is honesty?” “Did you have a time in your life when honesty was completely

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