I’ve hesitated, and hesitated some more about posting this image. It’s not an image I particularly want the world to see. And it’s not an easy image to look at.
It reminds me just how ill Anorexia can make a person and I hope it shows others that there’s an ugly side to being thin.
This photo is a world away from the beautiful models you see in magazines that so many youngsters aspire to look like. This shows the reality of Anorexia and extreme thinness and it isn’t nice.
Too many teenagers seem to think thin is beautiful. Clearly it isn’t.
I was saved by a little girl I nickname IJ on this blog. I type that with a lump in my throat and no words to describe how overwhelmed with gratitude I am to have her in my life.
For every distressing image like the one above, I have images that make me smile, like the one below. I’m happy, healthy and the proud mum of a beautiful daughter who, in typical fashion, refused to pose properly for the camera, but it makes me smile.
Not everyone who has experienced an eating disorder lives to write a post like this. Some are never able to go on and have children. Others are no longer here.
My reason for writing this is to support a blogging friend of mine, Nickie, who is one of a handful of bloggers working to raise awareness of children’s cancer charity CLIC Sargent and their Yummy Mummy Week. Nickie has provided a number of writing prompts over the last few weeks to get us writing about the #dosomethingyummy campaign. This week’s prompt is survival.
CLIC Sargent is holding a Yummy Mummy Week from 10th to 18th March. The money raised will be used to provide clinical, practical and emotional support for children and young people with cancer and their families. Further details of CLIC Sargent’s Yummy Mummy Week can be found here: www.yummymummy.org.uk. You can also read Nickie’s post about how you can get involved too.
I’d class myself as someone who has survived a serious life-threatening illness. I’d like to help others do the same.
