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Article Excerpt
I'm not sure when it started. What I do know is that it wasn't about being thin enough for a guy, or about not being happy in my life, and it certainly wasn't because I thought I was fat. For "real" life, I knew that I was fine. But for ballet, I wasn't quite thin enough, or so I believed.
I'd wanted to be a ballerina for as long as I could remember. While most teens were at the mall, dating, or getting that perfect prom dress, I was at ballet. Ballet class wasn't just something I went to for fun; it was my whole life. When I wasn't at dance, I was watching videos of my favorites, listening to classical music and envisioning choreography, or daydreaming about being onstage.
To this day, I have a hard time saying that I was anorexic. I certainly wasn't bulimic. But while I may not have starved myself completely or binged and purged, I definitely had some serious issues about food. I suppose that anorexia is...
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