'It's insane', but it just might work

By Catherine Armitage
Updated May 10 2016 - 10:24am, first published April 28 2016 - 4:26pm
The causes of the eating disorder anorexia nervosa are being investigated.
The causes of the eating disorder anorexia nervosa are being investigated.

Stephanie Paech has starved herself for years. As a teenager, comfort meant "being curled up in a ball with hunger." If she talked to her friends about it, they would say things like "If you think you are fat, what does that say about me? Do you think I'm fat?".

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