Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition, and the by Crystal Renn

By Crystal Renn

AT FOURTEEN, i used to be a typical JUNIOR highschool scholar IN CLINTON, MISSISSIPPI, while A MODELING SCOUT instructed ME: you may BE A stick insect . . . yet YOU’LL need to LOSE a bit WEIGHT.
FOR GLAMOUR, popularity, AND break out, I misplaced SEVENTY kilos.
This is a photograph of me at SIXTEEN, whilst I signed an incredible modeling agreement, moved to ny urban, and began touring around the globe.
It can be while I constructed a ferocious case of anorexia and workout bulimia.
Until i made a decision sufficient was once enough—I desired to reside.
And so I ate. And ate.
Offering a behind-the-scenes peek into the modeling undefined, in addition to a trenchant examine our weight-obsessed tradition, Hungry is an inspiring and cautionary story that might resonate with somebody who has battled society’s small-minded definitions of attractiveness.
This is me NOW, the prime plus-size version in the United States.

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