My friend Jane has always had low self-esteem. She was always unhappy with something.
Last year things started to get worse because Jane had gained a bit of weight. It wasn't a lot but she got upset because she thought that everybody was looking at her. I told her that she was perfectly normal, but she didn't listen. She said that she would only be happy if she was as thin as a supermodel.
Then she started to lose weight. I noticed that she didn't eat her school lunch and she didn't go out with our gang when we went to our local pizzeria. When I left for England, Jane was a size 6. We kept in touch by e-mail and she wrote to me that she was all right. From her letters I also knew that she had joined our local drama club and was going to be an actress after school. I was happy for her and thought that she had forgotten all that nonsense about dieting.
We met again three weeks ago when I came back from England. I didn't recognise her. She was pale, thin and a size 2! we had spent the whole day together and she hadn't eaten anything. It was then I realized what had happened to my friend. I was going to phone her parents but then I thought that it wouldn't be right.