Tag: anorexia
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Conversations with… Rachael Morgan (Subject: Body Image, Eating Disorders and Breast Reconstruction Surgery)
Women are constantly bombarded with messages on how they ‘should’ look. We should have abs, toned arms, toned legs and have straight, white teeth. We need to be hair free. We need to smile. Our hair shouldn’t be frizzy, but long and flowing. Our waist needs to tiny, our legs long, our nails manicured, our…
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Conversations with… Emma Naylor (Subject: ARFID)
Growing up, all I really knew about eating disorders was the brief mention of anorexia in Jacqueline Wilson’s ‘Girls’ series or the rare article on someone overcoming bulimia in the teen magazines I read. Women’s relationship with food and the societal pressure to look a certain way was not widely discussed. Girls who nowadays would…