Body image

A girl at 18 wakes in the morning and hops out of bed straight onto a pair of scales located next to her bed. The needle moves slightly up and she burns inside, fat fat fat! She looks into the full-length mirror; it’s her worst enemy. The way she looked in it made her feel like dying. Even when she wasn’t looking in the mirror, she felt as though the whole world was a …

…and Howard Johnson. lost it's battle on May 30, 1998. The child of a mother suffering from Bulimia couldn’t survive. Chinah Craig lost his battle with anorexia/bulimia in March of 1999 after a 25 year history. He had been in recovery for 14 years when throat cancer took his life. People are dying to be thin, and dying to be something they cannot be, dying to fit the mould that not only the media promote but society too.