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