Why would a woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, over-exercise, and death? Through seven treatment center stays, endless therapy, and the loss of a potential wedding to my fiance, the loss of friends, jobs, and all sense of what it means to be "normal," I embraced anorexia. It took a particularly frightening wake-up call as to the devastation that anorexia had done to my body: severe osteoporosis, damage to my neck which left me in constant pain, dangerously low heart rate, and dizzy spells, before I finally put the romance of wasting away to rest forever. My story is one in which I...