Metaphors for the body abound: a many-horse-powered machine, a delicate ecosystem, a knife-cut sculpture. Eating disorders might skirt the body’s regular rules, but they’re still invested in symmetry and measurements, engineering; the body reimagined as a race car instead of a sensible sedan. Built for speed, stares, grinding to a sudden halt and burning up, sparking gasps.
At first, the hum. A nicotine head high, a purring engine. The numbers going down, the compliments adding up
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Food critic Grace Dent previously detailed her battle with disordered eating in her book, Hungry, which was released in 2021.
Grace, 50, left the camp on Monday on medical grounds when she reached breaking point amid concerns over her ‘scarily unwell’ appearance.
In the years leading up to her jungle stint, she had endured a complexed relationship with food from the age of nine, and at one point sheadopted a dangerous 800-calorie a day diet in order to be slim.
