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Have you ever skipped out on an event or chose to stay in for the weekend because you felt bloated or simply didn’t like the way you looked in any of your clothes? I think most of us, unfortunately, relate to that sentiment all-too-frequently. However, one Twin Cities influencer shows us how we can start to finally shift our mentality on how we look at ourselves and others.
“I was like well, I’m going to be twenty-nine next week, and if I don’t get it together, that means by thirty I still won’t have that perfect body. But then I had this out-of-body experience, of that is so messed up. I really heard it, like the f*ck, that’s your goal? Because I had told myself that for a long time and I had gotten used to that, and suddenly it was like that’s a pathetic goal. You should dream a lot bigger.”
While Madelyne considered herself recovered from anorexia many years ago, she realized in many ways she hadn’t. “I was still in a very disordered eating habit and mentality that had affected big milestones in my life.”
There’s the false notion that once you lose those ten pounds or once you look a certain way, then everything will be okay and fall into place. Then I’ll be happy. Then I can start living my life. “And of course that’s not true,” laughs Madelyne. “When you say it out loud, it sounds ridiculous and doesn’t make any sense. It’s really a flawed plan. But you get used to saying it, and you get used to hearing it; it doesn’t sound so ridiculous after a while.”
And it was these myths that we hold on to which became the impetus for Madelyne’s blog, “My Pointy Chin Diaries”.
Photo Courtesy of Joe Dammel @dammelphotographicworks
Madelyne’s blog and Instagram @pointy.chin.diaries offer you an intimate and entertaining look into Madelyne’s thoughts, feelings, musings, and of course, fashion sense. Granted, creating a blog centered around fashion may seem counterintuitive for someone who struggled with an eating disorder but Madelyne shares how fashion, in fact, played a huge part in her recovery.
“An outfit can really make a difference for me,” Madelyne explains. “There is something about having control versus not having control that is such a part of my development of an eating disorder and also my recovery from an eating disorder. Having the control and the power to put whatever I want on my body and to decorate it differ
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