For you my friend

So in my Abnormal Psychology class we started talking about eating and somatic disorders. Today we watched a movie on a lady we had bulemia nervosa. And I've heard all sorts of stats on this issue and all sorts of various tidbits. There was this one thing that really struck me. This lady was talking about how she didn't like talking about her eating issues and the interviewer asked her how that made her feel. And she started talking about how at first she was really excited, because the thought of being video taped made her think she'd be famous. And the she said she started to feel nervous because she worried that when she got there, the video crew wouldn't like her because she just had bulemia and wasn't thin enough to be a anorexic yet. That just blew my mind. That our culture could mess with someone's self image that bad that they would say something like that.