It’s quite possible to think that eating disorders don’t affect Muslims. Whether it’s Nicole Richie or Lindsay Lohan, the issue of eating disorders is usually associated with rich, skinny and beautiful women. Suffice it to say, the Muslim girl or guy you went to school with or who sits next to you on the bus may also be secretly struggling from an internal battle of emotional chaos or what is otherwise considered as an eating disorder. She or he may close her room door tight, eat mounds of cookies hidden in her closet or say that she or he was full at a dinner party when she secretly was dying of hunger.
