“Anna couldn’t have had a baby if she was starving herself. Not without serious complications.” “Maybe she got it under control long enough to have him,” Faith guessed. “I’m never quite sure which is which—is anorexia where they throw up?” “That’s bulimia. Anorexia denotes starvation. Sometimes anorexics use laxatives, but they don’t purge. There’s growing evidence about genetic determinism—chromosomal blips that predispose them to the disorder. Usually, there’s some kind of environmental trigger that sets it off.”
