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18.05.2023 - 05:37 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
From just 11-years-old, Evie Waxman was struggling with her image - surrounded by magazines promoting 'lemon water and cayenne pepper' fad diets, and hearing the adult women around her slam their own bodies.
As a young teenager, Evie would restrict her diet as she was becoming increasingly anxious about the way she looked and how clothes fit her. Her own dad would go on to raise concerns about only ever seeing Evie eat a teaspoon of peanut butter, but all the while, she was stuck in a 'toxic bubble' of young girls struggling with their self-esteem, 'egging each other on to not eat'.
In her early 20s, Evie's eating disorder remained, pushing her to 'only eat a couple of carrots and a handful of nuts a day'. It wasn't until she started travelling the world that she decided to change her life.
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Now 29-years-old, Evie, from London, has set up a healthy snack business in Manchester to help people recovering from eating disorders and say 'f*** you' to 'toxic diet culture'. Evie first started to struggle with her body image at 11-years-old and said her memories from that time include overhearing the way older women talked about their bodies.
She said: “Listening to adults, especially women, talk negatively about their bodies unintentionally impacts and moulds the way you think about your own body growing up.
“From a very young age I would think about the way I looked and how clothes fit me. At around 13 or 14, I started restricting what I ate and I remember my dad making concerned comments about the fact that he only ever saw me eating a teaspoon of peanut butter, but the issue with eating disorders is that they’re secretive and done in private.
“As a teen,
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