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BIG, BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL

Lying with my legs in the air, I stared at the empty page of my notebook.

Scribbling 11st in bold on the page, I then started to write down 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.

Beyoncé reportedly 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 as my age.

I had started to develop a lot

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