“A common misconception about people with an eating disorder is that black people don’t have eating disorders. With anorexia nervosa in particular, we tend to think that only over sensitive middle-class white girls fall prey to this illness.”

– Jada*, aged 27

Only white girls get eating disorders. You would be forgiven for believing this…

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