Who I Once Was: A Body Memoir

For readers of Melissa Febos, Roxane Gay, and T Kira Madden, the story of one young woman's years-long struggle with eating disorders and how she finally came to realize that her body wasn't the problem

This is the story of an awakening.

When Amy Scheiner was 8 years old, she started gaining weight at an unprecedented rate. It was the 90s, and she had been raised on the diet culture of the time: eating low-fat, counting calories, counting points, and hating her body.

At 17, her family thought ...