{"id":324560,"date":"2026-03-02T06:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/324560\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T06:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:32:08","slug":"i-havent-made-myself-sick-in-over-10-years-but-i-still-struggle-with-the-effects-of-bulimia-and-anorexia-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/324560\/","title":{"rendered":"I haven\u2019t made myself sick in over 10 years, but I still struggle with the effects of bulimia and anorexia every day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\n\u00c1ine Floyd\u2019s struggle with body image has been going on her whole life, and the lack of available services is a serious issue for her and others suffering with eating disorders\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\u00c1ine Floyd has had an eating disorder for the last 12 years. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/df89ee52-e7fc-4312-8f0d-e7a63f41e556.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">\u00c1ine Floyd has had an eating disorder for the last 12 years. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For as long as she can remember, Drogheda woman \u00c1ine Floyd (36) has always been self-conscious about her body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The mother-of-three spent her formative school years avoiding physical activities due to the crippling fear she had about being ridiculed by her classmates after being nicknamed \u201cBlobby\u201d by someone on the school bus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00c1ine Floyd\u2019s struggle with body image has been going on her whole life, and the lack of available&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[150556,103,61,60],"class_list":["post-324560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-filomena-kaguako","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}