![]() ![]() ![]() With attuned storytelling and unflinching introspection, Kelsey Osgood unpacks the modern myths of anorexia, examining the cult-like underbelly of eating disorders in the young, as she chronicles her own rehabilitation. When she was hospitalized for anorexia at fifteen, she found herself in an existential wormhole: how can one suffer from something one has actively sought out? Through her own decade-long battle with anorexia, which included three lengthy hospitalizations, Osgood harrowingly describes the haunting and competitive world of inpatient facilities populated with other adolescents, some as young as ten years old. She devoured their memoirs and magazine articles, committing the most salacious details of their cautionary tales to memoryhow little they ate, their lowest weights, and their merciless exercise regimesto learn what it would take to be the very best anorectic. 10+ Recovery Books I Recommend // Eating Disorder Recovery ![]()
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