Weighing it Up - Ali Valenzuela

Although never having had an eating disorder myself, I have been interested in them since I was young. I was a competitive gymnast and that is a world where eating disorders do creep in. Now I'm a mother of three teenage daughters, I worry about the subject from a whole new angle, especially as one of them is a size 6-8 and idolises those super-skinny celebrities. So I really wanted to read ''Weighing It Up'' by Ali Valenzuela, as it is billed as ''a teenager's frank account of her struggle with anorexia''. It looks the kind of book a teenage girl would pick up, as it has a pretty title edged in pink and a photo of a stunning young woman - Ali - on the ...  Read the complete review