As thinness is idolised, eating disorders can go dangerously overlooked. Will Victoria’s new approach save lives?

‘Eating was my biggest fear’: Portia Michau was hospitalised for an eating disorder when she was a teenager. Photograph: Michelle Grace Hunder/The Guardian

What would become a decade-long battle that nearly claimed her life started out “quite innocently” for Portia Michau.

“I wanted to be the ‘healthiest’ version of me I could be and it stumbled from there,” she says.