"Coming back from an addiction to starvation"

From a young age Marya Hornbacher felt she was fat. At age nine she was bulimic. And through-out her life she fluxuated between bulimia and anorexia, and at the age of 18 she had been hospitalized 5times, including a stay in a mental asylum. This book tells of her life, and how she dealt with her fears of gaining weight and her constant battle against bulimia and anorexia. In her own words Marya has said, "I would do anything to keep people from going where i went. This book was the only thing i could think of".

Reading this book probably wasn't one of my smartest moves. As i myself have suffered from anorexia, but reading this did show me how life changing this disorder can be. And because of that i didn't have to go to extreme lengths, i didnt need to test the bounderies as Marya Hornbacher did and recalled them in this book. There was no need to see it for myself as i had read what happens. This book is extremely moving in the way Marya writes and how painfully honest she is. A compulsive read, although very hard to take in.