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Emma Hinchliffe, Nina Ajemian

Kerry Washington joins eating disorder startup Equip

Kerry Washington (Credit: Etienne Laurent/AFP—Getty Images)

Good morning! Citi chief Jane Fraser gets a big pay bump, Kelly Loeffler is confirmed to lead the Small Business Administration, and the eating disorder startup Equip found the right celebrity partner.

- Who gets help. In late 2023, the actor Kerry Washington published her memoir Thicker Than Water. In her book, the Scandal star got very personal; one of the stories she shared was her experience with an eating disorder. By the time she reached college-age, Washington wrote, she cycled back and forth between binge eating and severe food restriction, sometimes not eating for days at a time or compulsively exercising.

"Food and exercise were at first ideal ways to indulge compulsive behaviors because I could hide them more easily than drugs or alcohol," Washington wrote. "And that constant manipulation of my own behavior allowed me the illusion of control...Though they eventually led to unfathomable levels of depression."

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