Books about anorexia

The ideal of female beauty changed from era to era. Remember the Greek statues of women with lush hips and small breasts, or beauties of the 20th century Brigitte Bordeaux and Merlin Monroe - today they all no longer fit the "standard of beauty". A tall, thin girl with protruding collarbones and ribs is the standard that podiums and fashion magazines offer to us. The desire to follow the ghostly ideal has already killed more than one thousand young girls. To better understand this problem, it is best to read books about anorexia and bulimia. It is there that is well shown how it seemed from the outside, and what turned out later.

List of books about anorexia

1. "0%", Frank Ryuze . This book shows the other side of such a fascinating and fascinating world of fashion. He claims that he did not come up with anything - he is the kind of girl he meets every day.
2. "This morning I decided to stop eating," Justine . This is one of the best books about anorexia for teenagers. The pages reveal a shocking frankness story young girl, who decided that you can become beautiful and beloved only with the help of leanness.
3. "Slimy," Ibi Kaslik . The book opens the story of a convinced anorexic, which is not able to fight reality, and increasingly divorced from it. The help of relatives is the last thing she has left.
4. "A girl with hungry eyes," Masha Tsareva . The heroine of the book is simply obsessed with becoming better, prettier and more slender. She is a typical modern city woman, who is sure that the media offer a decent standard of beauty to follow. The book is dedicated to all those who exhaust themselves with diets.
5. "Deadly diet. Stop anorexia, Anna Nikolaenko . The heroine of the book asks the question - are the stories about anorexia true? Or is it always possible to gather strength and stop? Where is the fine line between beauty and pathology? This diary book shows the problem from within, through the eyes of the person who is fighting it.
6. "38 kg. Life in the "0 calories" mode, Anastasia Kovrigina . This book is another confession of an anorexic, which reached 38 kilograms in pursuit of fashion and beauty. She accurately remembers the months spent in calculating the caloric content of foods and the fear of an extra piece.

Books about anorexia were written by many professional and non-professional authors - among the latter, of course, those who passed the disease themselves and could defeat it predominate.