September 3, 2013

My mother called me today to tell me about what her friend's daughter had done. Her friend's daughter was 5'6" and weighed 187 pounds. However, the daughter is now 5'6" and 107 pounds. It should come as no surprise that she became anorexic. More specifically, about six months ago she wanted to find a way to lose weight that was faster than simply not eating. She thought that if she became pregnant and didn't eat, that the fetus would eat her body fat. My question thus would have to be, how could someone use a baby to lose weight? How desperate does someone have to be to do something as shocking as this? Where could she have possibly gotten the idea to do this? What could have been going through her head in order to resort to such drastic measures?