Two years ago, Jessi Davin was angry.
It was just around Halloween time, and she had just seen a costume called “Anna Rexia.” As a survivor who was treating her anorexia, she did not find this costume amusing.
She posted about it, and the post went viral.
In the post, she wrote:
“Real sexy, huh?” she said, attaching a picture of herself hooked up to a feeding tube.
She also listed some of the realities of anorexia that make it so unsexy, including:
- Four years of hospitalization
- A nasogastric feeding tube because you’ve starved yourself so much that your body doesn’t recognize food as a good thing and is trying to attack itself.
- Re-Feeding syndrome, which can kill you.
- A father crying and pleading on his knees begging for you to get help.
- A mother who cries every time she sees you because you look and SMELL like death.
- Almost every major organ in your body failing.
- A shower chair—because you can’t stand in the shower because you’re too weak and the warm water could make you pass out.
- A wheelchair, because you are too weak to walk and it could make you go into cardiac arrest.
- And if you don’t get help like I do, or even if you do, a coffin. Because I’ve lost more friends to this eating disorder than anything I’ve ever faced.
After the post went viral, she continued with her recovery. Now, she’s 26, married, and expecting a baby. She’s seven months pregnant, and she’s sharing how her illness is affecting her pregnancy.
Her morning sickness brought back her eating disorder, as she began avoiding food in order to avoid nausea. She’s back in the hospital, but she says that her health and her child’s health are of top priority, and she’s getting all the help she needs.
