Live through this- weight watcher (12)

The layout is interested. each part of performance artist stephanie howell's life in this text is written under the title of what she weighed at the time. as an overweight child, she was bullied and teased by kids. even her family wasnt particually nice about her weight. it goes on to discuss how going to a weight loss group begun her obsession with loosing weight and the scales. she would not eat, exercise heavily and force herself to sweat alot during by wearing alot of layers.  she became obessed on starving and then bingeing. she cant remeber important things that happened but she can remember her weight as they happened. its the extreams of an eating disorder. She talks about how becoming an actress and landing a part in which she plays a stripper and had to basically walk around dance and sing in a bra and skirt, and the reaction of the other actors, director and the audience made her realise that her fat wasnt such a bad thing. she used this as a basis of writing and later she begun to create a personal performance which was based around her weight and how people perseve weight.