And she’s a figure-skating star with dreams of the Olympics. Why would a talented young girl go through the looking glass and slip into a netherworld where up is down, food is greed, and death is honor? Why enter into a love affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Marya Hornbacher sustained both anorexia and bulimia through 5 lengthy hospitalizations, endless therapy, the loss of family, friends, jobs, and ultimately, any sense of what it means to be "normal." In this vivid, emotionally wrenching memoir, she recreates the experience and illuminates the tangle of personal, family, and cultural causes underlying eating disorders.įifteen-year-old Katie Roskova tells herself she has a perfect life! She earns all A’s at her private high school. Down to 52 pounds and counting, Marya becomes a battlefield: her powerful death instinct at war with the will to live. By the time she is in college and working for a wire news service in Washington D.C., she is in the grip of a bout of anorexia so horrifying that it will forever put to rest the romance of wasting away. Marya's story gathers intensity with each passing year.
She added anorexia to her repertoire a few years later and took great pride in her ability to starve. By age 9, she was secretly bulimic, throwing up at home after school, while watching Brady Bunch reruns on television and munching Fritos. At the age of 5, she returned home from ballet class one day, put on an enormous sweater, curled up on her bed, and cried because she thought she was fat. Levekron.Precociously intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and ambitious, Marya Hornbacher grew up in a comfortable middle-class American home.When Scab-Picking, Cutting Becomes Addictive. ^ New court papers tell of Phoebe's dark last day.^ The BEST LITTLE GIRL IN THE WORLD (1981).This Mean Disease: Growing Up in the Shadow of My Mother's Anorexia Nervosa. ^ Levenkron, Steven : The Best Little Girl in the World.
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