Jennette McCurdy was honored by the National Eating Disorders Association at their annual gala for her powerful advocacy, courage, and commitment to changing the conversation around eating disorders and mental health
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Jennette McCurdy was honored by the National Eating Disorders Association at their annual gala for her powerful advocacy, courage, and commitment to changing the conversation around eating disorders and mental health
by LunaLore_
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Honestly so happy and proud of her!
This is awesome. Love her saying specifically that she hasn’t weighed herself in years… I got rid of my scale and haven’t stepped on one (except when forced to at the doctor) in over 15 years.
It’s a very challenging time right now for people (especially women) who have naturally “bigger” builds as so many abuse GLP-1 drugs in an attempt to shrink their bodies (yes, I know the drugs are also useful tools for diabetics and people with certain specific disorders).
Although I am healthy and exercise regularly and eat mostly whole (unprocessed) foods, I am not a small or thin person (and never will be), and after many years of hating myself because of my size, once I got out of my 20s, I realized that my self-hatred was serving no one at all, least of all myself.
The “body positivity” movement of the last decade or so gave me hope that American society specifically was FINALLY making strides to stop the policing of larger bodies, and it’s been beyond depressing to watch the backslide into the worship of extreme thinness that has accompanied the rise in openly misogynist politicians and celebrities and the Republican-led push to roll back women’s rights and agency over their own bodies. So, it’s nice to see this post today on Fauxmoi! Thank you for sharing, OP!
She deserves the best honestly
7 years is so incredible. This gives me hope for myself that i’ll be able to make it out of this hole once and for all.
We need these stories now more than ever. Very happy for her.
She deserves all her flowers for this book! I heard one chapter and realized that my mom also taught me to have my eating disorder. Scared to finish it now it’s so real 😭
love that for her!
good for her, i straight up cannot imagine NOT counting calories. i admire people who are just Normal
As someone who also has an eating disorder, I loved her book. I listened to the audio book read by her and would highly recommend it. So happy she has taken her pain and used it for advocacy and hope.
She’s an amazing advocate and so brave in the work she does. Mind you I never watched her shows when I was younger but I’m a big fan now. Off-topic I’m also incredibly jealous of her hair.
This is incredible. She’s always so inspiring. I had a bit of a relapse myself so I hope I can get to her level one day.
