Kayla Marlowe is slowly vanishing.
Last year, Kayla’s world imploded.
Her beloved father died, leaving her alone with a vain mother who is quick to
criticize her daughter’s appearance. During her winter break from college,
Kayla’s dangerous obsession with losing weight begins.
Kayla feels like her world changes
for the better overnight. Being skinny seems to be the key to the happiness she
has desperately been seeking. Her mother and friends shower her with
compliments, telling her how fantastic she looks. Kayla is starving, but no one
knows it.
Cameron Bennett burst into Kayla’s
life. He’s sexy and kind he has every quality she has been looking for in a
guy. As Cameron grows closer to Kayla and learns of how far she’s willing to go
to stay thin, he becomes frantic to save her. Kayla’s struggles with anorexia
and bulimia reach a breaking point and she is forced to confront her body image
issues in order to survive. She wonders if Cameron could be the one to help
heal her from the pain of her past.
This story shows how people's words really can hurt other people and Kayla had not got over the death of her father. Kayla's mom told her most of her life she was fat and unattractive and needed to lose weight. When she finally did lose some weight her friends and mother were happy for her, but it made Kayla miserable because she thought she had to keep losing weight and started to hate food not eat right and she even resulted in vomiting up her food after eating so she would not gain it back. She did not confine in anyone about her problems until it was too late and she ended up in the hospital and has to go to a rehab facility to get help.
Kayla a Journalism major could not see how she was treating her body so bad she even turned to the wrong kind of help on the Internet people telling her ways to hide her problems and how to make her feel bad about herself by looking at pictures of super-thin models.
Body image is such an integral part of our lives and young girls get the wrong message shoved down their throats and in their faces. We should be proud of our bodies and learn how to control our weight in safe and healthy ways. With so much obesity going on in this country it no wonders girls have problems dealing with how the look. Everyone is so worried about what others will think it says if they are seen looking a certain way that others don't like.
Karla finds love in this book with a guy named Cameron who works to get College Students to get credit cards. She can't figure out why he likes her and wants to date her. She tries very hard to keep her illness a secret from him. Cameron and her sister soon find out that she has not been eating and starving herself. They try to help her but she doesn't want their help she gets upset at them for not understanding how she feels and just trying to fix her and make her fat. Their intentions are good but she has to hit rock bottom before she can get the help she needs.
Cameron and Kayla both have a younger sister Cameron's sister Scarlett and Kayla's is Lila. When Cameron Finally met Kayla's family her mom tried to flirt with him but when he stood up to Charlotte about how she was treating her daughters she did not like him anymore. She could not see how her words were hurtful and not helpful. It went a bit better when Kayla met Cameron's family. His sister Scarlett did warn Kayla not to break his heart because someone already done that before, which turns out to be his mother who was a drug addict and abandoned him.
Like many stories, an old girlfriend shows up or hangs around and when Kayla sees her at Cameron's apartment she jumps to the wrong conclusion like books and movies tend to do, and the injured party runs away without listening to the whole story and find out the truth. Kayla also gets a scare about being pregnant since her period was late due to how much weight she had lost. Her problem gets so bad she moves in with one of the girls she been talking to online who also had anorexia and did not tell anyone where she was.
She saw how her friend looked and could not believe how skinny she was but this girl was not her real friend because when Kayla got too bad and passed out in the shower her friend Marti and her boyfriend just dumped her on the doorstep of the hospital. So that when Kayla had to finally face the facts that she needed help but it took her a few days to figure that out because when she saw they were giving her fluids in her IV she was still worried about how many calories she was taken in even though she was basically skin and bones.
Her fear of getting fat was totally irrational and she desperately needed help. Kayla was diagnosed as being anorexic and bulimic and also a body dysmorphic disorder. She went to rehab at first she did not think she could handle it the stomach pain and the urge to throw up overwhelmed her. It also hurt Kayla to be away from Cameron for months but she had to do this by herself soon she was handling the program and felt up to writing Cameron a letter after he sent her one. She got to be good friends with her roommate in April.
Once she got out of rehab she went back to college and one of her roommates Brittany. When she saw Cameron at his apartment for the first time in many months it was like coming home the hug and kissed and she even made him dinner. They enjoyed each other's company. Kayla's parting words are "Having an eating disorder was an ugly thing, but I had survived it. I didn't become a tragedy, a warning to girls of what happens when you starve yourself for beauty. In the end, I'd chosen love."
Cameron and Kayla both have a younger sister Cameron's sister Scarlett and Kayla's is Lila. When Cameron Finally met Kayla's family her mom tried to flirt with him but when he stood up to Charlotte about how she was treating her daughters she did not like him anymore. She could not see how her words were hurtful and not helpful. It went a bit better when Kayla met Cameron's family. His sister Scarlett did warn Kayla not to break his heart because someone already done that before, which turns out to be his mother who was a drug addict and abandoned him.
Like many stories, an old girlfriend shows up or hangs around and when Kayla sees her at Cameron's apartment she jumps to the wrong conclusion like books and movies tend to do, and the injured party runs away without listening to the whole story and find out the truth. Kayla also gets a scare about being pregnant since her period was late due to how much weight she had lost. Her problem gets so bad she moves in with one of the girls she been talking to online who also had anorexia and did not tell anyone where she was.
She saw how her friend looked and could not believe how skinny she was but this girl was not her real friend because when Kayla got too bad and passed out in the shower her friend Marti and her boyfriend just dumped her on the doorstep of the hospital. So that when Kayla had to finally face the facts that she needed help but it took her a few days to figure that out because when she saw they were giving her fluids in her IV she was still worried about how many calories she was taken in even though she was basically skin and bones.
Her fear of getting fat was totally irrational and she desperately needed help. Kayla was diagnosed as being anorexic and bulimic and also a body dysmorphic disorder. She went to rehab at first she did not think she could handle it the stomach pain and the urge to throw up overwhelmed her. It also hurt Kayla to be away from Cameron for months but she had to do this by herself soon she was handling the program and felt up to writing Cameron a letter after he sent her one. She got to be good friends with her roommate in April.
Once she got out of rehab she went back to college and one of her roommates Brittany. When she saw Cameron at his apartment for the first time in many months it was like coming home the hug and kissed and she even made him dinner. They enjoyed each other's company. Kayla's parting words are "Having an eating disorder was an ugly thing, but I had survived it. I didn't become a tragedy, a warning to girls of what happens when you starve yourself for beauty. In the end, I'd chosen love."
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