Family Secrets: I hoped bulimia would make me beautiful


	Family Secrets: I hoped bulimia would make me beautiful

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2afcbbaf-dcea-4f44-be24-d20715d39c90/DA915E5F-E986-4574-A508-1DFED7C469E7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article4243139.ece" href="http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article4243139.ece" style="font-size: 11px;">women.timesonline.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article4243139.ece"><H2>Anorexic at the age of 12 and bulimic until she was 30, a reader tells of the deceit she embarked on to keep her disorder from family, friends and lovers - and how she finally faced reality</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article4243139.ece"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/women.timesonline.co.uk/img/172A0EC6-70A1-4538-B575-E9F83C91CD2E" alt="undefined" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article4243139.ece">At the age of 12 I was anorexic, weighing just over 6st (38kg)at 5ft 2in 
(1.57m). </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article4243139.ece">One day I saw a TV programme about a girl who threw up to stay slim. Starving, I 
went to the kitchen, got several scones, smothered them with jam and after 
eating them went to the bathroom and stuck my fingers down my throat. I felt 
tense, conscious I was doing something forbidden, yet also blasé and numb - 
typical bulimic emotions to which I later became habituated. I emerged on a 
clean, guiltless breeze, my parents downstairs suspecting nothing. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article4243139.ece">Within a month or two of my developing full-blown bulimia, my parents realised 
what I was doing.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article4243139.ece">My parents took me to doctors, but I refused to get better.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article4243139.ece"></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article4243139.ece">Eventually, afraid to alienate me further, my parents stopped speaking about it.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DA915E5F-E986-4574-A508-1DFED7C469E7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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