... .org). The average model weighs twenty-three percent less than the average women; the medical standard for anorexia is fifteen percent underweight (Thompson). For Laurie, things were very difficult. Her whole childhood, she was always called fat. Her teacher even made a reference to her saying that she used to be ... . She was thirteen now. When she went back to school, she got called down to the nurse's office to get weighed. She was 97 pounds. Laurie's parents made her go to a therapist. Unfortunately, she was inexperienced and said that she was not anorexia but had OCD. They left that...

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