Patrizza Elizabeth Jimenez

This was one of the better biographies about eating disorders that I have read in a long time. It was not one of the many stereotypical little-girl-has-to-be-perfect-to-keep-her-parents-from breaking-up,-and-to-keep-the-most popular-boy-in-school stories.
The author's illness began extremely early [the age of two] in able to get attention. Other times malnutrition was forced upon her, and it firmly attached itself later due to her family's spiteful remarks when she did gain weight. After several unsuccessful hospitalizations, she risked everything to participate in an experimental study of those suffering from anorexia nerves.… (meer)