Nelly was a beautiful girl who always made friends wherever she went. She loved making people laugh and smile, except Nelly was also going through a difficult time.

Her smiles were fake. She was surrounded by a society that told her "No one likes you unless your beautiful and skinny." No matter what her parents, friends, teachers told her she felt fat.

When looking down at the scale, the tears in her eyes distorted the numbers. When examining herself in the mirror, her eyes saw an overweight her. Everyday while Nelly ate with her parents her body would scream for help while her mind told her "fat."

Concerned for their daughters well-being they tried to help her, support her, be there for her, do anything to fix their slowly dying child. Except, Nelly did not see what they saw. Her mind had gone too far into this deadly spiral of depression, dieting, and low-self esteem.

For months she started rarely going out and eating less. Many days Nelly could hear her mother crying but could not help as she was hurting too. Luckily, one day, while searching for new healthy recipes she came across an article expressing one's past struggles with anorexia and how they overcame it. Everything they went through sound like what she was currently going through.

Skeptical, Nelly went to the bathroom to weigh herself. Seventy four lbs is what the scale read. Still unconvinced, she ran to her room and observed her stomach in the mirror. Feeling her body for the first time in months she felt the protruding ribs, her sunken stomach, her thin arms.