And if I did, I would want to be a super thin girl, like a supermodel, like Kate Moss or Naomi Campbell.” I thought I wanted to transition into being a girl. “At the time I was struggling with my gender identity. “Not a male model, but a female model,” he says. He says he became interested in fashion and wanted to look like a model. “Something I could control was the diet and exercising.”īut by his mid-teens, external pressure set in. “My childhood was kind of chaotic,” he says. He says it started out as a way to feel in control. But he had been struggling with disordered eating for years, first orthorexia – an obsession with health and fitness - and then anorexia. “I thought I needed to lose more weight,” he says. When Zachary Whitney first entered treatment for anorexia, he was 5’10 and 104 lbs. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) This article is more than 2 years old. A person stands on an old body weight scale.
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