February 27, 2024 • 67 mins
We are excited to bring this Back For Seconds episode to the main feed! Sami interviews journalist - and former Betches intern - Emmeline Clein about her book Dead Weight, which traces the cultural and medical history surrounding eating disorders. Emmeline shares her personal experience with anorexia and shines a light on how the medical community has historically dealt with eating disorder treatment poorly. Sami and Emmeline ruminate on how eating disorders have been glamorized in the media as a “rich girl” thing, and the two have a stimulating conversation about Wellbutrin’s marketing as the “happy horny skinny” pill.
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