"Seven to eight": the testimony of a young woman victim of anorexia upsets Internet users: Femme Actuelle Le MAG

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At twenty, Manon fell into anorexia. Obsessed with her body and weight loss, the young woman even goes as far as weighing only 33 kilos for a meter sixty at the worst of his pathology. Portrait of the week in Seven to Eight, on Sunday March 7, 2021, she confided in emotion on her long battle with the disease which lasted five years. "I stood up, the first thing I thought was to go on the scale and say to myself, 'Okay, I am that weight. Tonight when I come home there have to be grams in less'", she began by telling. Very quickly, this daily weight loss becomes a "enjoyment" mixed with a feeling of "power and control". If she does not make herself vomit, the laxatives become "a drug", a good way for her to feel her body becoming "empty". "I was taking up to 90 laxatives a day", she remembered. Over time, the young woman collapses under the gaze of her partner and her parents who accompany her throughout the illness. "My mom was spending sleepless nights trying to find a hospital", said Manon with emotion.

Interned because "time was running out", she regains weight at the request of her psychiatrist. At the hospital, she is asked to write her story from childhood in order to understand what could have caused her eating disorder. In her writing, she tells "extremely simple" that she was sexually touched as a child. Acts committed at the age of "ten, eleven years old" by "the husband of someone close to the family." It was only later that she told her family about it with a sense of "shame". From that day on, she believes that "a woman's body was complicated… To have shapes, I didn't like ". So slim down and meet again "in a body with nothing" that is to say "formless" help him "feel safe".

The Web salutes the courage of Manon

Despite his weight gain during his hospitalization, the obsession with thinness is still present in Manon who never ceases to restrict herself. Her body then gives up to the point that she has difficulty hearing, speaking takes a lot of energy from her, and parts of her body are no longer functioning. "I will always remember waking up one day and urinating on it", she confided with tears in her eyes. Finally, the young woman ends up doing it thanks to those close to her: "I understood that the keys were in me (…). It is only us who can make sure to free ourselves from this". A testimony "upsetting" who moved "to tears" Internet users. The latter praised the courage of the young woman and her "strength of character". "Very beautiful, moving portrait of Manon in relation to anorexia", "Very beautiful moving portrait of Manon in relation to anorexia" or "Courage to you Manon and don't let go!", can we read among the many tweets.

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