During her freshman year, Whitney made the girls soccer team and started losing a little weight as she got fit. She thought losing more weight would be cool. Whitney had anorexia. Anorexia is a type of eating disorder that causes people to become obsessed with being thin. They don't want to eat and they are afraid of gaining weight.
Some people take diet pills, laxatives or water pills to lose weight.
They might exercise excessively also. Anorexics think they are fat even thought they may be dangerously thin. Whitney is No. 1 in her class with a 98 average. Her favorite music is dance-pop. She is like most normal girls, but maybe more of an overachiever.