Mae: I think about food all the time

I’m now 19 years old and I have been suffering from eating disorders for nearly four years now. This has taken a toll on me and I was often having depression and anxiety. I was a bulimic too. Every part of me conflicts with myself, my brain, my heart. I can’t think about other things, I’m so conscious about what I’m eating. I even planned out what I want to binge on later. I think about food 24/7 a day. I care about how I look so much that I get READ More

Qin Yunquan: I found a greater purpose in life

I found a greater purpose in life. At the age of 17, I was diagnosed with anorexia. Suffering from low self-esteem, my self-worth was always measured by how people thought of me and my looks. When teenage girls started paying attention to their looks, I paid a little too much attention to myself. I felt ‘abnormal’ being overweight and went on a spiral of extreme dieting and exercise. I survived on one meal of bread and water a day whilst exercising intensely for three to READ More

Nicole Friets: There is never a perfect time

owever, as I look back on 2015 (an extremely eventful year on many fronts), I realise that a major step was acknowledging that there will never be a perfect time or perfect state.   Although I no longer believe in labels, I was clinically diagnosed with anorexia when I was about 14 years old. Many ask what triggered this. To be honest, I don’t think that there was a single event and it doesn’t really matter anyway. I believe that there are always triggers in every READ More

Anonymous: I never thought I would succumb to body image issues

I was confident that I would never succumb to body image issues, even though I was being poked fun of my size for more than half my life during the most vulnerable stage – when I was an adolescent. Since young, I was always small sized, short and slim. That changed when I took interest in sports in secondary school and I became muscular and big, but of course, still short. However, I was very happy being muscular and big because I was doing well in my sports. Boys made fun of how READ More

Isaac Neo: Don’t be afraid to express yourself

I studied in Lasalle College of the Arts as a Performance Student. I enrolled in that school because I felt arts was a way to express myself and I wanted to make it a profession. There, I’m taught to accept the fact that I had an average face and body and on the first day of class, I knew I was never gonna be a lead character because of the way I look. I learnt to just accept who I am over time. People often question my sexuality because of my openness and READ More