« That will remain a life topic for me »

The eating behavior and the weight were an issue in Leonie’s childhood. She has always been more petite, never had a particularly strong feeling of hunger. « The focus was already on body and weight in my childhood, » she says. But in puberty the whole thing changed again. So the young woman, like many girls of teenage, felt increasingly uncomfortable with the change in her body. She ate less and less, that Spectrum of food that came on the plategot smaller and smaller. And with that she was not an isolated case in her circle of friends. “It was a creeping process“In retrospect, a development that was influenced by many factors. It was so creeping that she at first did not notice how she slid into an eating disorder. Her parents, alerted from her weight loss, finally. But until she could admit that she had a problem that could not be reversed overnight, it took a while afterwards.