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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Kate Lloyd

‘It took time to love my soft, larger shape’: the body-positive writer who recovered from an eating disorder

Megan Jayne Crabbe wearing a long-sleeved, full-length, bright-orange dress, standing with her hands on her hips, and laughing against a pale-pink background
Megan Jayne Crabbe: ‘I started realising the problem was not me. The problem was how we are taught to see ourselves.’ Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Guardian

Megan Jayne Crabbe’s transformation goes beyond the physical. “My ‘before’ was trying to make myself as small as possible in every conceivable way: my body, voice, emotions, opinions,” she says. “My ‘after’ is allowing myself to be my biggest self, however that looks.”

Crabbe, 31, became aware of diets before she turned 10. As she entered puberty that intensified and she became fixated on magazine articles about how to change her body, eating as little as possible as a way to manage anxiety about school and growing up.

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