Marya Hornbacher works as a freeelance editor and writer and maintains her day-to-day battle with her eating disorders. She was educated at the University of Minnesota and the American University, where she won many awards for student journalism. Since she was 18 she has travelled around the US addressing young women (and men) about the causes of eating disorders. After a relapse in 1994, after completing ‘Wasted’, she resumed her leap-of-faith battle. "It’s exhausting," as she writes in ‘Wasted’, "but it is a figh ... Learn more