Its Really Something

Its Really Something
For years Katie had been criticizing herself about her weight and body appearance. Then one summer came her thirteenth birthday, she denied herself to eat cake but her parents forced her to. Finally one day her friends confronted her saying that she was not fat and sometimes they would say stuff like"You are so skinny that we can count your ribs." That made her mad. Katie's parents got very worried and took her to a doctor. After all the check-ups the doctor told her family that she had the case of anorexia. Hearing the doctor Katie went home and checked up anorexia. When she found out what it means to have anorexia she was not at all scared. She said,"I'd rather die skinny than fat." But her case got to a very bad situation. Katie threw up five times a day, faint for long periods of time and get some pink fuzz all over her body. Everyday for the next two years Katie's parents have tried to shove food down her throat or always yell at her about why she was not eating. But this hit Katie's mom the hardest, she would find her mom sobbing on her bed and that made Katie cry too. Katie went to a supermarket one day and in a magazine she saw a story on anorexia. This forty year old woman had anorexia for five years but then she started eating again. Though she ate her body was still very,very skinny. Katie got scared- then some months late very slowly she began to eat. Later on Katie could not believe that she had over come anorexia and hung on for her dear life. Now as Katie looks back she is proud of her accomplishment.