Bulimia is a lonely, secret, shameful disorder, says Vancouver author and artist Janet Ford.
She knows, having struggled with it for 22 years, since she was 14 years old.
Ford drew illustrations of how it feels to live with the disorder, and now those drawings are compiled in a new book, 100 Days of Bulimia.
“It’s very, very personal,” Ford told On The Coast host Gloria Macarenko.
“It’s such an underground, private illness … bringing it out in the open was really cathartic for me.”
The project started on Instagram: a friend challenged her to draw 100 drawings of something she knew “everything” about. Bulimia
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