"SO,
I’m a pit bull and I had
this problem with my body image, and I
thought ‘what better way to deal with
it than to display it like a piece of
meat?’ " says Ana, an animated 30-year-old
actress.
photo:
Ellen Fisher Turk |
| Ana
hated her body for years before
turning to Turk for help. |
Despite
chronic dieting, the Cuban-American,
who asked that her last name not be
used, loathed every nook, cranny and
dimple on her body. She’d been on Broadway
and in commercials but couldn’t stomach
the sight of herself in any of her roles.
She describes the non-stop tape running
in her head during the days when food
ruled her life.
"I
could not have a conversation with people
without my body being in the background,"
she says. "Getting dressed in the
morning was like an exercise in torture."
Ana,
who has lost and gained the same ten
pounds through dieting for most of her
life, first became conscious of her
body when her mother suggested she diet
at the age of seven.
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