In this searing, unflinchingly honest book, Portia de Rossi captures the complex emotional truth of what it is like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. She recounts the elaborate rituals around eating that came to dominate hours of every day, from keeping her daily calorie intake below 300 to eating precisely measured amounts of food out of specific bowls and only with certain utensils. When this wasn’t enough, she resorted to purging and compulsive physical exercise, driving her body and spirit to the breaking point.

Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. But then Cassie suffers the ultimate loss - her life - and Lia is left behind, haunted by her friend's memory and racked with guilt for not being able to help save her.  

Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center on the dusty outskirts of the New Mexico desert. Life in the center is regimented and intrusive, a nightmare come true. Nurses and therapists watch Stevie at mealtime, accompany her to the bathroom, and challenge her to eat the foods she's worked so hard to avoid.

Lilly Lindner ist sechs, als der Nachbar beginnt, sie regelmäßig zu vergewaltigen. Er droht ihr mit dem Schlimmsten, falls sie etwas ihren Eltern erzählen sollte. Und so schweigt das kleine Mädchen. Schließlich zieht der Mann weg - doch Lillys Leben ist längst aus dem Lot. Mit 13 Jahren fängt sie an zu hungern - damit von ihrem geschundenen Körper möglichst wenig übrig bleibt. Doch die Schande macht sie damit nicht ungeschehen. Und so beschließt Lilly als junge Frau, ihren Körper, der ihr schon lange nicht mehr gehört, in einem Edel- Bordell zu verkaufen.

Imagine waking in a hospital bed to find your frail pale arm punctured by an IV transferring fluids and nutrients into your weak, stiff body. You just had a seizure precipitated by your chronic struggle with unacknowledged eating disorders (ED). Living Full is author Danielle Sherman-Lazar's story. Filled with pop culture references, humor, and delivered with raw honesty about the escalating and dangerous behaviors of a person acting out the mental illness of ED, Living Full chronicles Danielle Sherman-Lazar's step-by-step descent into the nightmare that is full-blown ED.