Obsessed! ; She Hasn't Had Breakfast for 15 Years and Her Sons Never See Her Eat. Here, Writer Candida Crewe Says It's Time Western Women Admitted to a Fixation with Their Weight
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LUNCH with Candida Crewe is an austere affair: she adheres to a monastic regimen of self-denial and consumes absolutely nothing. Moreover, she is adept at sweeping any room she enters with a critical gaze and sizing up its female occupants with an acuity that would dazzle a diet guru.
'I can gauge a stomach or hip or thigh for size, no matter how many layers are covering it, and can pinpoint someone's body mass index with almost digital precision,' she reveals. Her weight, she concedes, is an obsession.See the full content of this document
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Obsessed! ; She Hasn't Had Breakfast for 15 Years and Her Sons Never See Her Eat. Here, Writer Candida Crewe Says It's Time Western Women Admitted to a Fixation with Their Weight
Briefly, in early adulthood, it spun into the realms of a gruesome eating disorder; a short spell of anorexia followed by a version of bulimia which involved gorging then, in lieu of vomiting, fasting.
But even today - aged 41 and a happily married mum of three young sons - she is abnormally preoccupied with size.She thinks about her weight every few minutes; as often as a man, supposedly, thinks about ...See the full content of this document
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