Kirsten Haglund

In January 2008, Kirsten Haglund was crowned Miss America. Through this competition, she was able to open up about her teen struggle with anorexia. From a young age, Haglund was struggling from insecure thoughts, but when she began going to a very competitive ballet school, those thoughts became real. In Louie’s running career and war experience, he also struggled with fitting in, survival, and persecution. Through both of their victories, Kristian Haglund and Louie Zamperini have been able to find Christ again, and continued to live their lives for Him. When Haglund first began attending the competitive ballet school, she realized she looked nothing like the girls around her. She would let herself eat cookies, desserts, and fried foods,…

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several disorders that are resulting because of this. Whether the participant is a toddler, teenager, or adult they are to stay the right size and not gain any weight throughout the competition. They are to be so called perfect. An effect of this terrifying expectation is anorexia nervosa which causes people to obsess over their weight. Anorexia is a mental illness because these victims are not getting the proper nutrition they need; in fact, this illness affected a former Miss America. Kirsten…

Association, “an estimated 10 million women and 1 million men in the U.S. battle anorexia or bulimia” (Khorram, 2012). The complete explanation behind eating disorders is unknown, but they are believed to be the result of both biological and social factors. Possible biological causes include “a chemical imbalance in the hypothalamus or pituitary gland, perhaps brought on by genetic factors”(Feldman, 2015, p. 300) and the differences in how information about food is processed in the brain.…