Pick Me Up!

MISS VOLUPTUOUS!

Lying with my legs in the air, I stared at the empty page of my notebook. Scribbling 11st in bold on the page, I started to write my emotions. Dear Diary… I really need to lose weight, all the other girls in my class are so much smaller than me and it makes me look fat.

Slamming the lid shut, I turned over and stalked celebrities in my favourite magazines.

Beyonce used a liquid diet to slim down for her new role in Dreamgirls…

Something pinged in my brain.

If I can look like that it’s worth a try, I thought, truly immersed in a new diet culture.

Getting ready for secondary school the next morning, aged just 14, I filled my uniform, wearing the same dress size

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