Elna Baker

**Elna Baker** (an haife ta a ranar 21 ga Janairu, 1982) marubuciya ce kuma mai barkwanci 'yar Amurka. Ta yi aiki a shirin rediyo mai suna This American Life tun daga shekarar 2010, kuma a halin yanzu tana cikin shirin. furodusa . Ta bayyana a The Moth, BBC Radio 4 da Studio 360. A watan Oktoba na 2009, Penguin Books ta buga littafinta The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance, wanda ke ba da labarin abin da ta fuskanta a matsayin ƙaramar yarinya, mai aure, Latter Day Saint da ke zaune a birnin New York . Tun daga watan Afrilun 2024, ta haɗu da wani shirin podcast mai suna Pretty Sure I Can Fly tare da Johnny Knoxville .

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
An rene Baker a matsayin memba na Cocin Yesu Kiristi na Waliyyan Ƙarshe a cikin abin da ta bayyana a matsayin iyali "rabin Mexico, rabin Mormon".  Bayan shekaru tara, iyalin sun ƙaura zuwa Madrid, Spain .  Ayyukansu na yau da kullun sun haɗa da "aikin Littafi Mai Tsarki," darussan dinki, da koyarwar tsarki.  Ba a yarda da batsa ko mujallu a gida ba.  Mahaifinta Gary Baker ne.   Gary Baker ya jagoranci Ural Boeing Manufacturing (UBM), wani masana'antar titanium a Rasha,   sannan Boeing Tianjin Composites Company (BTC), wani masana'antar hada-hadar kayayyaki a China.  A halin yanzu shi ne Mataimakin Shugaba, Tsaro, Inganci & Biyayya, Boeing Global Services. 

An karɓe Baker a Makarantar Fasaha ta Tisch da ke Jami'ar New York .  Lokacin da ta zaɓi makarantar fiye da Jami'ar Brigham Young (mallakar Cocin Yesu Kiristi na Waliyyan Ƙarshe), ta ce mahaifiyarta ta tambaye ta abin da za ta yi idan wata 'yar madigo ta yi ƙoƙarin yin lalata da ita.  A lokacin kammala karatunta na sakandare a NYU, Baker tana ɗaya daga cikin ɗalibai goma sha biyu da aka zaɓa don rubutawa da kuma bitar wani wasan kwaikwayo tare da marubuciyar wasan kwaikwayo Elizabeth Swados .  Da yake ta gamsu da baiwar Baker, Swados ta ƙarfafa ta ta yi labaranta kai tsaye.  A sauran zangon karatu, Baker zai ziyarci gidan Swados a ranar Juma'a don koyo game da ba da labari, wani jagoranci da ya ci gaba har tsawon shekaru bakwai masu zuwa.  Lokacin da wani aboki ya ambaci wani kulob mai suna Moth, Baker ya fara tafiya, kuma ba zato ba tsammani ya sami damar yin wasa a babban mataki lokacin da Lewis Black ya soke a minti na ƙarshe. 

A cikin tarihin rayuwarta, Baker ta ba da labarin cewa tana da kiba a lokacin da take girma,  daga ƙarshe ta kai kusan fam 265.  Abokai da dangi sun gaya mata cewa ba za ta taɓa cimma burinta na zama matar aure da 'yar wasan kwaikwayo ba matuƙar tana da "kiba."  Shekara guda bayan kwaleji, duk da haka, ta je wani asibitin ɗaukar nauyi, ta fara cin abinci mai gina jiki, kuma ta sha phentermine da likitanta ya ba ta.  Ta rage nauyin kilo 110, kuma ta ce ta firgita kuma ta yi baƙin ciki da samun kulawa mai kyau da ba ta samu ba a da.  Cikin wata guda, ta sami aiki a matsayin mai gabatar da shirin David Letterman a CBS tare da alhakin zama mutane bisa ga yanayin jikinsu. 

## Rubutu
Rubuce-rubuce da barkwancin Baker galibi suna da alaƙa da abubuwan da ta fuskanta a birnin New York, lokacin da ta girma a matsayinta na Mormon, da kuma rashin yin jima'i kafin aure, miyagun ƙwayoyi, barasa, da kuma batsa.  Bayan wani labarin da ta rubuta wa mujallar *Elle*, an ba ta damar rubuta littafi.  Domin samun yanayin rubutu mai dacewa, ta nemi kuma an ba ta lambar yabo ta zama mazaunin MacDowell da Yaddo artists colonies a 2007 da 2008.  A shekarar 2009, ta fitar da wani tarihin rayuwa mai suna *The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance*, wanda aka sanya wa suna don rawar Mormon na shekara-shekara da ake gudanarwa a birnin New York.  Kirkus Reviews ta kira littafin "wani fim mai ban sha'awa da mai daɗi wanda wani tsohon mai barkwanci  ya shirya."  Mujallar *People* ta ba wa littafin taurari huɗu, tana kiransa "wani fim mai ban dariya mai ban dariya." 

## Rayuwa ta sirri
An yi wa Baker tiyatar kwalliya don cire fatar da ta wuce kima daga rage kiba,  da kuma tiyatar ƙara girman nononta don daidaita girman nononta kafin rage kiba.  Tana fama da erythema na craniofacial na idiopathic, ko kuma ja mai tsanani, kuma tsawon shekaru tana amfani da mayafai da ƙurƙunƙun kunkuru don ɓoye ta.  A cikin wani shiri na 2017 na *This American Life*, ta ba da labarin rasa rawar talabijin saboda ta yi kama da "matsala" a kyamara, lamarin da ya sa ta so a yi mata tiyata don gyara matsalar. Bayan ta sami labarin illolin aikin da kuma matsakaicin tasiri, sai ta ja da baya daga ra'ayin. 

Baker ya ci gaba da zama ɗan Mormon har zuwa lokacin da ya girma.  Tana da shekaru 24, ta yi aure da wani ɗan'uwanta Mormon kuma ta ƙaura zuwa Utah don zama tare da shi, amma ta soke auren lokacin da ta fahimci cewa ba za ta iya samun rayuwar da take so a can ba.   Ta kasance budurwa har zuwa shekara 28.  Ta bar Cocin LDS bayan buga tarihin rayuwarta. 

Baker ya auri mai zane Mark Sikes a shekarar 2016.  Ma'auratan sun sake daga baya. 

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