‘I had to leave Hong Kong to be able to talk about my anorexia’

Steph suffered for many years in Hong Kong with anorexia, but it was not until she moved to the US that she found the right language to be able to talk about what she was going through. She explains to Emily Thomas why talking about eating disorders is taboo across China, how people focus on physical rather that emotional symptoms, and why - for her -the word for ‘anorexia’ in Mandarin is not a faithful representation of what it is like to suffer with the disease.

(Picture, Steph from Hong Kong, Credit: BBC)