Hey It's OK... To Talk About Eating Disorders | With Anna Saccone And Cat Meffan | GLAMOUR UK 

This really hit me when Anna said 'the eating disorder will tell you I was prettier then 'cause I was skinnier then'. Recently I've found myself falling back into these bad habits from 3 years ago and I've been saying to people 'oh look how pretty I was when I was skinny'... but I wasn't, I was ill. I guess it's time I 'fess up now and say I'm not ok?

When Anna said that her daughter saved her life that brought such a tear to my eye. Its refreshing to hear someone say that when you have an eating disorder you don't always look ill. As I would starve for weeks and didn't look tiny or thin so nobody ever knew the awful things that I was doing. Not every anorexic person is skinny! .. ♡

Anna saying that Emilia saved her life brought tears to my eyes, for a mother to feel like that Is beautiful

Ugh I just adore Anna so much. Knowing her relationship with Emilia already, hearing how she feels she saved her life makes it that much more special. She's the best mum.

That “healthier” comment...I totally get it. Me too. 100%. Thank you for this.

Currently struggling with an eating disorder and Vidoes like this just give me so much hope. Thank you. I wish we had more

I love Anna's smile at 8:08 :) So glad she and Cat have found happiness in recovery.

Two wonderfully brave woman with stories unique to them yet so familiar to thousands....keep this kind of narrative up Glamour the amount of ppl this will touch you have no idea😁😍😘😍

When Anna said she felt like Emília saved her life, I lost it. I’ve always been so inspired by Anna and her love for her children. I’m so proud of the person she has become and so happy that she is happy. ❤️

this was so lovely and refreshing! thanks for opening up this conversation, should be done more x

Adored this chat x

I feel like when I was younger I was on the verge of an eating disorder, I think the longest I went without eating was about 4 days. I just remember every summer I had the same goal-"don't eat for the entire summer and then when you go back to school you'll be skinny" every summer that was the goal, most of the time I would just try and starve myself but then I would end up eating later that night. This went on for a really long time. I'm great full that it never went any further than that. There were times I would be sitting over the toilet thinking "just do it, just make yourself throw up" but I never could, I'm thankful for that now. These types of videos make me thankful, and help me not go back to that place

Just want to say a big thank you for this . 48 now and struggling for 34 years with body image. Your bravery is admiral and l cried at your honesty.Thank you both again.l am the mom of 4 girls and 2 granddaughters and see this issue arising earlier and earlier in our beautiful children and not just the girls.Advocats like you can make such a difference. Love you loads Anna.

Thank you for sharing! I honestly cried a bit watching this, I feel so understood. All these things you talked about, that's exactly what went through my mind (and still sometimes is).

Anna saying that she had to recover and that it was her child . There both so brave and inspirational.

would love to see more non 'stereotypical' eating disorder sufferers. Such an important topic and discussion, it would be even more powerful and empowering representing more people that aren't represented in this topic.

Loved this!

What a powerful conversation for you both to have together. It cant of been easy well done ladies

Such courage from both of these women. Blessings

Anna is such a genuine person. 💙💛

Thank you for talking about this and sharing your experience! I hope this can help just one person! This is extremely helpful 😊

This is such a beautiful and honest account of what an eating disorder can be like. ♡ I’m so glad that it’s becoming more accepted to speak up about these issue and this was such a candid raw video that I hope will inspire others ☆♡

This really helped me learn about how other people struggle not just me.

This was brilliant x Real women talking about a real subject in a real environment. Bravo x

This was so amazing, well done you two such a difficult conversation to have but SO important. If I would've heard this when I was 17 I genuinely believe I would feel like someone understood me and I wasn't so alone.

I need like an hour long video of them just talking about this, truly inspiring xx

Anna is so brave love her and her family.

Here to support Anna. Amazing video x

it's so nice to have woman like you two to look up to. thank you both for opening up and sharing your experiences ♡

THANK YOU for speaking up about EDs! However, I think you're wrong about it being "probably easier than ever to recover from an eating disorder". I would say it might even be harder than ever.

So important for positive videos like this to be being shared, raising awareness and letting other young people know they're not alone and also recovering adults too.

i really really loved this. sadly, so relatable, and so nice to hear a reflection post recovery. XX

Such a powerful conversion. So much covered in only 8 minutes.

Imagine emilia watching this one day ❤ Anna is so amazing

Anna is a true inspiration.

So proud of you Anna

Love this video chat. Thanks for being this brave to talk about eating disorder.

Anna, you are my hero!

you guys are so brave to talk so honest about this important issue. I never had an eating disorder and my boyfriend always says that I'm probably the most "healthy" mind in terms of eating that he ever saw even tho I dont eat super healthy, if you get what I mean... I only discovered a few years ago that some people in my close surrounding are suffering from eating discorder pretty badly and how common it seems to be, especially for young women. And I just didnt understand it, didnt know how to help. Thank you for being so brave and sharing your stories!

Also wish all women could be this open and kind. I think a lot of women fall into unhealthy body attitude based on other women either being mean or showing an unrealistic version of themselves (ex: instagram). Lovely to see women support each other and just being human beings ❤️

This was amazing, as a past sufferer myself this was so interesting to watch

i adore anna so much and i find her so comforting. her story has helped me so much and she inspires me everyday i love her so much

I was smiling while watching this because I relate to them in so many ways and that's never happened with this type of thing before💕💖

I honestly started watching this video thinking great, some positiv talk about eating disorder, which it was dont get me wrong, but as soon as cat said she has big thighs... my stomach literally dropped and I thought to myself, if her thighs are big then mine are huge..... and right now I'm sitting in my room thinking what I could do differently, eat less work out even more. Its just really sad how this one thing cat said just sat me back to looking at my body in a bad way

Beautiful and inspiring! Thankyou for sharing your stories girls 💕

“It’s nice to have something else to focus on besides myself for once” on being pregnant

Anna is just incredible. Love this lady so much.

Thank you for sharing your stories! You are both so lovely and inspiring!

I love how relaxed and natural this is. It feels more of a informative chat/conversation rather than an interview. I don't believe I had a ED or at least diagnose able but when Cat's dad said "just stop"resonated with me. It overlaps with other disorder. For me, I have anxiety issues and I rarely really open up about it. Its really because I don't like burdening people and I don't quite know how to explain it. There was one time I told an older cousin about me having anxiety (not in depth, just sometimes my mind makes up these thoughts that aren't necessarily true). This cousin basically just said to just stop having these thoughts. After that I've been quite reserve about who and what to say about anxiety. As they say it's easier said than done. I've never had a diagnosed ED but I have controlled my diet before through calorie control. I guess anxiety (and insecurities) which I couldn't control then spilled to something I could control which was eating. Results was me losing weight but being in the lower range of "'healthy weight" so people thought it was me trying to be healthier(which it was to a degree). I felt prettier and got complements but I realized my issues were still there. I don't control my diet anymore but I still have anxiety problems I am working with. Process is slow but I will get there. Anna story of how Emilia saved her from continuing her ED reminds me of an acquaintance who said her mom getting pregnant with her older brother saved her from going down a path she really didn't want to go down. I wish they made more videos like this. I feel this bouncing off each other/conversation style is more connectable than interviews with to me are more telling than trying to connect (somewhat).

It’s refreshing to have people represent our age-group (25-30 year olds). reflection is so important

I'm so proud of them for sharing their stories, I hope it well help others

Love Anna

I totally relate. My eating disorder started as a teenager when my dance teacher told me I “looked terrible” and needed to lose weight. I overcame this but a few years later when my parents never let me pursue dance as a career (my life long dream) this triggered it again as it became a form of control since I wasn’t able to control anything else in my life. I’m still battling with disordered eating right now.

Such beautiful strong women ❤️

Anna I love you..thank you for doing this video ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Well said girls

💞Thank you very much💞

I love you Anna! I adore your family:) You are incredibly strong, beautiful, and a wonderful mom

Each eating disorder is ok to talk about ❤️

I love this this is a healthy way to make light on a topic like this where a lot of people can be triggered by certain videos. this was very well put together.

I love Anna Sacconne-Joly. She honestly inspired me to start my channel. Her open heart and honesty is so genuine.

Loved this

Much love ♥

Beautiful ladies!

This is amazing and so helpful

this is actually so so helpful, thank you

Anna is appealing towards eating disordered people, because she's not pathetic and she takes total responsibility for her malady. That's good, nobody who is living through an eating disorder wants to see pathetic helplessness.

One summer i got SO bad, i was obsessed. I had gained the freshmen[25]. That summer after i got a job across town and decided to get a bike and would legit bike 19 miles(1200+cals) 4 days a week, then bike another 45min at night around the neighborhood. That job was a temp warehouse job so it was manual labor, so you already expend alot of calories, i added UGGs and a hoodie on top of that to lose more calories(while then biking home in 90 weather). i was probably burning on avg 1700+ cals a day and eating 0-1000. I once went to the gym with my sister and was trying to run and within 10 minutes was getting dazed and disorientated, i switched to weights.[on a fast] I literally took 4-5 spoonfuls of food, fasted, intermittent fasted etc. I did a fast for 5 and 3 days, i intermittent fasted by not eating until after like 2-4 pm, i did short term extreme diets like 300, 500, to 1000 cals a day. I would say about more than half the summer i ate less than 1000, that was my limit. I took laxatives everyday hoping to not gain weight and i weighed myself like 5x a day. Late summer i then decided to go vegetarian, scared to gain any of the weight back. I ended up losing a total of 39 lbs [in 2.5 months] then with the move in from college, we went to a buffet but the scale still said 2-3 lbs less at the end of that day. Looking back its crazy thinking i was ever like that, i almost feel like someone else took over. Slowly i got back into eating fish and chicken but eating red meat is when i really noticed that i was gaining weight. i only ever gained at most 23 of the 42 lbs back probably bc i had gained the initial 25 so quickly that it wouldn't have stuck anyway.

I remember praying to God crying... praying that I could stop caring about my image so much so I could stop throwing up everything I ate

So inspirational ❤️

I struggled with a eating disorder since I was 14 years old, I recovered for 2 years and recently relapsed, I’m at the worst I’ve ever been, bulimia sucks !!

Go Anna!!!! Thank you for sharing your story

Inspiring! ❤️❤️

I was the same as Anna always hated myself i was so skinny and unhealthy but threw having my 3 boys i had good a pregnancy with all the boys but after i’d go through needing to be skinny but then when i hit my 30s i found myself and let my body be beautiful and i filled out and now in my 40s i’m proud of myself i’m not a super model or a size 4 but i’m happy and thankful ty you both for posting this love you both

I love Anna, she is so nice

This is amazing. Thank you for this.

Brilliant, relatable, spot on. Thank you.

Very Brave, thank you so much for talking about this subject.

Interesting conversation. ❤️

Beautiful. X

It’s scary I’ve never had an eating disorder but I used to fanaticise and still do about being unhealthily thin. Didn’t care about the bones sticking out loosing hair or anything I just wanted to loose weight and a lot of it

Omg its Cat yes !!

Beautiful. ❤️

thank you x

When we are out, don't go back to the dark topic. No point. My sis-in - law punched me n mum supported me to beat it. 👍🏻my f forced me to apologise on terms that he knew nothing about. He was wrong.

i love anna!

ANNA😍❤️

I know someone like this..

awesome video, but would have been nice to have an overeater represented as well....

*Talking about the issues/severeness with Eating Disorders, wearing all Brandy Melville, a brand, whose clothes are all one size and barely fit a child* ironic?

Love Anna so much

You lady's did a amazing job xoxoc

Bravo Anna

I love thisssss😍😍

It would really be nicer if there were some other women with different body types talking about eating disorders.

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Are their names for real.....?

'Hi I'm Anna I'm a mum of 3 and I do Instagram' ..mmmkay 😶

...al the links are for the uk... fudge... XD all I've found for the US is neda...

Am I a healthy weight? My height is 5” 5 and I am 103 pounds. Please give me your honest opinion.