This 22-Year-Old Girl Conquered Her Anorexia To Become A Body-Positive Instagram Star

Pretty awesome feel-good story about body image from over in the UK papers. Megan Jayne is a “body positive warrior” who is blowing up on Instagram these days. As a teenager, she battled with anorexia to the point where it almost killed her — she only weight about 60 pounds and doctors only gave her a few weeks to live before she checked into a recovery center. Talking to The Mirror, she explains the hell of dealing with an eating disorder:

Megan said: “At my lowest weight size four clothes were falling off me, my hair thinned and I was constantly freezing cold.

“Thin would never be thin enough. The eating disorder overcame me so much that I believed it was all that I was and all that I had.

“I became an empty shell of a girl, still obsessing over whether my stomach was visible through my hospital gown.”

After two years of slow recovery – aided by the unwavering support of her father – Megan had an epiphany aged 16.

She started eating and within a year had nearly tripled her body weight.

But she had replaced starvation with binging and was still unhappy.

After five years of ups and downs, she got involved with the “Fitspiration” movement on Instagram. In other words, she became all about embracing her body for what it is. Her Instagram is a great, positive follow, too:

Go read more of her interview over at The Mirror…

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