GRAZIA – ORTHOREXIA

  • AUTHOR: // CATEGORY: Adventures, Celebrities, Country Life, Current Affairs, Doing Things, Gin & Slim, Health and Fitness, Mental Health, Opinion Piece, Topical News, Wiltshire Life

    1 Comment
    GraziaCoverOrtho

    The closest I’ll ever get to Taylor Swift. My headline on her head.

    Four scores and eight years ago (or just eight years ago, as I don’t know what four scores are) I was nearing the end of my post-graduate course in journalism. I untacked an advert pinned to the school’s noticeboard looking for feature writers to work for the UK’s biggest press agency, based in Bristol, and took it home.

    Then I invited a friend over for dinner. This friend was already a journalist and much further along her journalism career than I, for she did not stop to wang about smoking weed and achieving nothing for a few years. While we discussed my career options, I remembered the ad that was stuffed into my satchel and I pulled it out to show my friend.

    To my delight, she’d only started her own career at that very agency, and promised to put in a good word for me with the boss.

    Thus, my career began. I was given a job at that agency, where I learned the buzz of a byline and honed my craft. I worked there 11 months and three weeks, and got myself several of my now best friends, my now husband and my now career. Best friends, a husband and a career. I definitely owe someone a drink.

    It took a few years but eventually I got my first story in Grazia a few years ago. Oh boy was that a career highlight – my fave magazine! Wanted me! To write!

    This week, that friend became the editor of Grazia (a big deal) and I continue to write for them from time to time, much to my joy. Okay, she’s a hotshot editor and I’m still wanging about (but not smoking weed anymore, hurrah) but I feel it’s full circle that I have contributed to her first ever issue as editor.

    My story is about what happens when you take healthy eating too far. Never has a healthy lifestyle been more popular, gorgeous as all the new foodie super-bloggers are. Check out this week’s Grazia to see what happens when healthy eating turns into orthorexia, as it did for me. A delicate subject matter for me to open up about, but one that Grazia handled with grace and delicacy.

    GraziaKimOrthoBlog

    Head to your agent of news and purchase a copy of this week’s Grazia, gracias!

     

COMMENTS

1 Response to Grazia – Orthorexia

  • Sue Willis wrote on June 5, 2015 at 10:07 //

    Now I feel bad, I’ve never even heard of orthorexia!  X

LEAVE A REPLY

FILL THE FIELDS TO LEAVE A REPLY. Your email address will not be published.

* Copy This Password *

* Type Or Paste Password Here *