Ana Velasquez shares her story as a woman of color struggling with and recovering from an eating disorder.
“I could understand that we share an illness that makes us fear food and desire thinness, but the realities of a fat girl with an eating disorder and a thin girl with an eating disorder are so far apart, it’s like a gorge divides us…”
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This essay contains discussions of disordered eating habits, fat antagonism, and sexual molestation.