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"Understanding my eating disorder 10 years later": when her diet-obsessed pal began to downsize drastically, Cosmo editor Meaghan Buchan followed suit. Here, she reflects on her long battle with anorexia, triggered by peer pressure.(REAL-LIFE READS)
* Today, you can't walk past a newsstand without seeing pictures of a pin-thin actress and her incredibly shrinking BFF. But the pressure to be eensy isn't just on celebs. Regular chicks strive for these impossible ideals too. And like women in Hollywood, they often succumb to tandem eating disorders-where friends feed off each other's anorexia or bulimia. I know because I've been there. In high school, my best friend and I developed eating disorders ... and it almost killed me.
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I can still remember my induction into the undereaters' club. My best friend, Laura (not her real name), began dropping weight a few weeks into our sophomore year of ...
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