Thin by Lauren Greenfield is a collection of the many lives of women with eating disorders being treated at the Renfrew Center. It provides the reader with many photographs, at times a bit graphic of their thin bodies and even self-inflicted wounds. It takes you into their daily life of struggles with eating, gaining weight, not being able to face the scale, and being intimate. This book also gives you actual journal writings of some of the patients telling their story of how it all got started and how they still secretly think they are going to get down to their weight after they are released from the center. One of the main reasons all this gets started is because some were made fun of and other are just trying to copy Hollywood skinny starlets. I can see how reluctant readers would want to read this book, especially girls. The photographs really draw your attention to the book and give you a great insight as to what it is about. One thing that did surprise me was that insurance covers eating disorders and even more surprising was finding a picture of a girl from my hometown of Brownsville, Texas. What a small world...
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