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Can Christ Guide You Out of Anorexia?

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist
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Before being crowned Miss America 2008, Kirsten Haglund struggled with anorexia and finding her identity, but a reading of the Bible, specifically the book of Psalms, changed her forever, as she shares in a new "I Am Second" video prior to the Sept. 11 airing of the Miss America 2017 pageant.

"For someone who's severely struggling from an eating disorder, your mind doesn't act normal. You literally see yourself as horribly disgusting," 28-year-old Haglund says in the latest "I Am Second" film, released Wednesday. "It's about food, and it's about losing weight, creating a body type you want, but it is about so much more than that. It is slavery," she describes her condition at the time.

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/former-miss-america-shares-how-the-bible-rescued-her-from-anorexia-168922/#FVFf2YlITGg6ixCm.99

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