A Thin Line
Jamie Reynolds, 17, had it all. The boys, the popularity, even the looks. Then she had put on a few pounds and suddenly, she wasn't so sure about her confidence anymore. Not like anyone had noticed anyway but she did and that was all that mattered. She had tried various diets but none had worked. Then one night, Jamie was in her room and watching television; vegging out on chocolate candy. She carefully studied the candy and suddenly regretted eating all of it. She rushed to the loo and purged out everything she could possible. Jamie had felt terrible but she figured it was for the right reason. The next morning, her mother had made pancakes and called Jamie downstairs to eat. Jamie didn't know what to do or say about it. She was torn between whether she should eat and; hopefully without anyone noticing, throw it up, or eat it and feel guilty. Yes, guilty. Guilty of overeating and being afraid of one, even one more pound growing on her body. She had missed her body so much. She instead told her mother she wasn't hungry. Was she going to tell this to her mother, to everyone, everyday? It had to be impossibly possible.
Two weeks later and 15 pounds less, Jamie should've been excited about her weight loss. Instead she was even more infuriated. She looked in the mirror every morning only to find herself getting bigger and bigger everyday. Her diet was no longer a diet. This was a very serious disorder. She looked online everyday for "thinspiration", which was looking at deathly, skeletally thin girls. She even looked at Pro Ana websites, glorifying eating disorders. Soon enough, she wasn't even hungry anymore. Her entire body was feeding itself at this point. She was exercising more than 3 hours a day, and studying her figure constantly. People viewed her as a bag of bones, while she viewed herself and fat and ugly. Something had to be done.
Weeks went by and soon enough, her mom started to notice. She had questioned her again and again but she had denied. Her mother finally gave an intervention and sent her to a rehabilitation center for anorexia nervosa.
In rehab, she had still refused to eat. The techs stuck a feeding tube down her throat to force her to eat. After a few days, she was finally eating, little by little.
After rehab, she was healthy again. All she wanted was popularity and for her body to be in top shape. But you can only go so far to impress someone. So ask yourself, how far would you go?
