There was a girl in ninth grade who seemed to be like every other girl in ninth grade, but she was different from the rest. She was five feet four inches tall and weighed only ninety-five pounds. His bones were visible through a thin layer of rough skin, but no muscles were visible. Even though she was asked if she had a problem, she lied to everyone. This girl was not eating healthily, exercising her body in a healthy manner, and was slowly wasting away into a walking corpse. That girl was me. I suffered from an illness known as anorexia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa is a disease that has three main characteristics: refusal to maintain a healthy weight, a strong fear of gaining weight, and a distorted body image (anorexia nervosa). Anorexia nervosa is a difficult-to-treat illness that affects both the body and the mind. Anorexia nervosa is an illness that revolves around the idea of ​​“never being skinny enough.” Once a person begins living an anorexic life, nothing else in their life matters. Family, friends and other activities are put aside because all that matters to a person with anorexy is losing weight (anorexia nervosa). However, anorexia is not limited to unhealthy eating. These are malnutrition, excessive weight loss and starvation of the body. Anorexia is not a very common disease, appearing in less than 1% of girls (Rosen, Meghan). My anorexia developed because I wanted to be beautiful and I thought being skinny was the only way to do that. My goal was to impress my parents, my friends and a boy I had a crush on. I thought the boy didn't like me because I wasn't pretty enough, so I thought being skinny would make me more attractive to him..