19-Year-Old Anorexic Teen Promised To Beat Anorexia For The Sake Of Her Boyfriend And Family

An anorexic 19-year-old teenager was afraid her boyfriend would witness her premature death promised to beat anorexia. Tiffany Mulligan now weighs healthy, thanks to Seth Altimus, her boyfriend and her family.

Tiffany Mulligan had an eating disorder way back in 2010 after battling with depression, according to Mirror. The same report also said that she did it as her way of feeling in control of her own life.

The worst thing that happened to Tiffany was when her body mass index reached a perilously low level. Her body mass index plunged to 14.4, according to reports. After the incident, Tiffany swore to overcome anorexia, with a fervent reason and motivation in mind. She is afraid her loved ones, especially her boyfriend Seth Altimus, would see her perish and gone.

The teenager shared that she had to constantly chug diet pop as she was always weak and very shaky and on the edge of passing out. Moreover, she tried to stop her hunger pains with zero-calorie fluids whenever she became hungry from burning more calories than she was consuming.

"I was terrified that if I didn't recover, my boyfriend would have to witness my premature death, which I couldn't do," Tiffany told Mail Online.

Today she weighed 108lbs. How did she do it? According to her she just reversed the effects that were caused by her eating disorder. She also revealed that Seth has been incredibly supportive through it all; he helped her to get better by eating meals with her and packing lunches when they go places. Thus, exemplifying the power of true love.

In the end, Tiffany realized she needs to live on and fight anorexia for the sake of her family and boyfriend. "This time I know I could keep living how I used to and that I didn't want to go back to how I was before," Tiffany told Mail Online.

In retrospect, anorexia is a psychological and probably life-threatening eating disorder defined by an extremely low body weight to relative to stature, needless and extreme weight loss, distorted perception of body and self-image and illogical fear of weight gain, according to Eating Disorder Hope. The National Institute of Mental Health reported that 2.7 percent of teenagers, ages 13 - 18 years of age, struggle with an eating disorder.

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