Being stick thin is so over-rated

Trust me, I would know!
I haven't really told many people this but now, I have decided to share my story to everyone so hopefully, I can try to help someone out there.
Through from grade 4 to grade 6 in primary school ( I was about 9 in grade 4 and 11 turning 12  in grade 6) I decided that I didn't want to eat my lunch at school.
At first, I didn't think that I was fat, I just didn't want to eat in front of people.
After a while, I began to get used to being hungry all the time so I thought 'Oh, I don't have to eat, I can go for ages without food!'.
From there, whenever I looked in the mirror, I saw something that others did not see.
I saw someone that was fat, disfigured and short.
When in reality I was not fat and I was not short, I was stick thin and quite tall for my age.
I kept not eating and starving myself for long periods of time because I decided that I wanted to be a size 6 (in kids clothes) when I really should have been a size 10-12.
In grade 6, it reached its peak, I had gone for 2 years without my parents noticing anything.
I hid my food from them so they thought that I was eating but really wasn't.
When my parents actually noticed that I was losing weight dramatically, they went to talk to my teacher at the time and asked her whether she had noticed anything strange going on.
She said that she hadn't seen me eat my lunch for a while so then my parents decided that something was wrong.
They took me to the doctor and he said that I had mild annorexia and that if I wasn't put on vitamin tablets and so forth that it would become very severe and that I would most probally have to go into rehab clinic for young girls suffereing from eating disorders.
After about 6 months, I began the put back on the weight that I had lost so that I was healthy again.
I got down to 29kg at my worst which is about 20 kg less than I should have been for my age and height.
I am now healthy and everything which is great.
I really want people to realise that being a size 4 is not cool!
Being that skinny that you faint is not cool.
Being that skinny that you resemble more of a twig than a person is not cool.
Being HEALTHY is cool.
Being able to muck around with your friends is cool.
Being able to go to lunch/dinner and not having to order salad with nothing but lettuce and no dressing is cool.

anyway.
much love!
TJ
xo.