Team Ali!

I never gave my body a fighting chance....

A topic I rarely talk about, but has consumed my life for over 16 years. I have inflicted myself with one type of Eating Disorder or another since my childhood. If you know me it's painfully obvious from weighing as little as 79 lbs. at 5' 6.5" (I know I look shorter but I am a good two and a half inches taller than the average American female...it's all an optical illusion) to blowing up to 140 at times (bulimia doesn't equal skinny). I have never had a normal period, I suffer from many ailments including osteoporosis, heart palpitations, a reduction in my immune system function, tooth decay, and the list is never ending so let me stop myself before I get off topic. It is a secret disease that causes isolationism and extreme tension in one's interpersonal relationships. I myself admit to this day that I chose to cling to my buddy E.D. over continuing several normal intimate associations. Young females and now in ever increasing numbers men are committing this slow form of dare I say it suicide every day in seclusion. Ali Michael however has chosen a very different path. I stumbled across the video posted below while sitting at my local laundromat drinking my third coffee of the morning and waiting for my hello kitty underwear to finally dry. Playing on the huge plasma dangling above my head was Anne Curry interviewing this exceptionally articulate nymphet. Kudos to Ali for opening her mouth and speaking out against this horrible affliction. The eighteen year-old's candidness about the disease moved me personally to finally be forthright about my own battle.