I'm looking for books, ideally fiction or memoirs, about eating disorders. Specifically anorexia (either subtype) or bulimia, not binge eating disorder. If they're nonfiction, I would prefer them to be memoirs about the author's own eating disorder, not written from someone's mom or husband or purely medical books written by doctors or psychologists. I don't care what the non-disordered have to say about eating disorders.
In the past I've enjoyed the movies To The Bone; Girl, Interrupted; Sharing The Secret; Little Girls In Pretty Boxes; Starving in Suburbia; For The Love of Nancy and The Ugly Stepsister. They're usually really cheesy and kind of overly dramatic and fake but oh well, they were fun. With books, I've only really read "I'm Glad My Mom Died" by Jennette McCurdy but I seriously loved it.
by diet-smoke
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‘Slip’ by Mallary Tenore Tarpley is incredible! And ‘The opposite of butterfly hunting’ by Evanna Lynch was really, really good.
Memoirs that touch on eating disorder experience: ‘ME’ by Elton John, ‘My Life so Far’ by Jane Fonda, all three of Valerie Bertinelli’s books
Other nonfiction that was just okay ‘What’s eating us: women, food, and the epidemic of body anxiety’ by Cole Kazdin and ‘Good Girls: A story and study of anorexia’ by Hadley Freeman
Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
The Best Little Girl in the World