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Guardian Life & Style (US) • Jan. 17, 2026, 12:27 p.m.
‘It took time to love my soft, larger shape’: the body-positive writer who recovered from an eating disorder
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Megan Jayne Crabbe was diagnosed with anorexia at 14. When she hit her ‘goal weight’ and still didn’t feel happy, a supportive online community showed her a new way to live Megan Jayne Crabbe’s transformation goes beyond the physical.
“My ‘before’ was trying to make myself as small as possible in every conceivable way: my body, voice, emotions, opinions,” she says. “My ‘after’ is allowing myself to be my biggest self, however that looks.” Crabbe, 31, became aware of diets before she turned 10.
As she entered puberty that intensified and she became fixated on magazine articles about how to change her body, eating as little as possible as a way to manage anxiety about school and growing up. Continue reading...
“My ‘before’ was trying to make myself as small as possible in every conceivable way: my body, voice, emotions, opinions,” she says. “My ‘after’ is allowing myself to be my biggest self, however that looks.” Crabbe, 31, became aware of diets before she turned 10.
As she entered puberty that intensified and she became fixated on magazine articles about how to change her body, eating as little as possible as a way to manage anxiety about school and growing up. Continue reading...
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