Tanya also opens up about her experiences at an all girl’s boarding school, which she describes as “the best training ground for perfecting the sport of the eating disorder”. She tells of a time when one of her friends at the time tells the group “that if you eat what you want when you want but not get fat if afterwards you poke your fingers into the back of your throat and puke it all up?” This, like in Wintergirls leads back to the nurturing of dangerous concepts of body image and the fact that for some reason these girls felt like ‘fat’ was the worst thing in the world. Tanya herself admits that she was never satisfied with her body and often battled thoughts about what she should be eating. Like many of the other stories in the novel demonstrates
