‘It took time to love my soft, larger shape’: the body-positive writer who recovered from an eating disorder
Megan Jayne Crabbe was diagnosed with anorexia at 14. When she hit her ‘goal weight ’ and still didn’t feel happy, a supportive online community showed her a new way to live
TL;DR
- Megan Jayne Crabbe's journey involved moving from trying to be small in every way to embracing her 'biggest self'.
- Her eating disorder, diagnosed at 14, led to severe physical symptoms and hospitalizations.
- A turning point in recovery was witnessing her father's pain caused by her eating disorder.
- Despite being declared recovered at 17, she relapsed into diet culture.
- At 21, she realized crash dieting wasn't working and found the online body positive community.
- Crabbe now advocates for self-empowerment, understanding that the problem was societal conditioning, not her.
- Healing involved reconnecting with her body, relearning hunger cues, and moving for enjoyment.