Megan Jayne, 22 year old resident of Colchester, England, was only 14 when Jayne was diagnosed with anorexia. She was at the extreme point of anorexia and the only thing that would save her life was hospitalization and force-feeding through a tube.
“Thin would never be thin enough. The eating disorder overcame me so much that I believed it was all that I was and all that I had, I became an empty shell of a girl, still obsessing over whether my stomach was visible through my hospital gown. Thin would never be thin enough. The eating disorder overcame me so much that I believed it was all that I was and all that I had, “I became an empty shell of a girl, still obsessing over whether my stomach was visible through my hospital gown” she told the Daily Mail.
Jayne decided when she was 16 that she needed to fight and overcome the disease. However, binge-eating mixed with obsessive calorie-counting made it clear that her disorder remained, only to realize it was all about how she perceives her body . A picture swirling on the social media inspired Jayne to set up her own Instagram account. She takes photos of herself in all her curvy glory, to motivate to train herself to love her body as it is and inspire others to do the same. Now, she has over 71,000 followers. Her first post was a bikini selfie, which she agonized over for hours, imagining all the horrible comments people would make. Instead, she received an outpouring of support and love that continues to this day.
