At 15, Gracie Firebaugh spent countless hours obsessing over her body image through social media. From secretly saving "thinspiration" content, scrolling through images supporting anorexia and learning new eating disorder behaviors, she said using social media fueled her disorder instead of helping her recover.
"It [An eating disorder] takes away almost everything from you. When you go down that road, there's not one part of your life that's not affected by it," Firebaugh said.
About nine percent of Americans will experience an eating disorder in their lifetime, according to the National Eating Disorder Association.