– Describes hunger as something positive

Swedish culture editor Sara Meidell shares her life with eating disorders in a new book. Several critics find the content to be problematic.

– I have to have respect for people’s interpretations of my book. But how they can think there is anything alluring or romantic about what I describe, I have a hard time understanding, author Sara Meidell tells Aftenposten.

In his autobiography “Out of My Body,” Meidell writes openly about it anorexiaanorexiaA mental disorder involving an intense fear of gaining weight. It is one of several types of eating disorders. has had for many years. She describes the “sweet intoxication” of hunger and that she is inspired by other hungry women in history.

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