For 30 years, Trotta has battled various eating disorders in tortured pursuit of the size nothing.Ramsey's article notes that mental health experts report having seen an increase in cases of eating disorders among adult women.
The 48-year-old mother and grandmother has starved and binged, over-exercised and vomited compulsively and, as she says, worked hard to appear normal through it all.
"I've lost three-fourths of my teeth. I've fractured my tailbone three times. I have crutches in my house, and I don't think there's a day where I don't have some kind of pain," says Trotta, an Oakley resident and administrator in her family's child-care business.
"But it still doesn't stop me."
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