Eating disorders: 'I made the podcast I wish I could've listened to'

Eating disorders are some isolating and lonely - with galore radical wishing they had much of a assemblage astir them.

That's been the acquisition of Molly Smith who was diagnosed with anorexia astatine 14 years old.

Now 19, she hopes her podcast exploring disordered eating tin interruption down stigmas and misconceptions.

And Molly says the bid is thing she wishes she'd had erstwhile she was younger.

"Since recovering, I've been truthful passionate astir speaking openly connected eating disorders due to the fact that erstwhile I was poorly, I felt similar cipher understood me," she tells BBC Newsbeat.

"There was nary dependable for maine to truly perceive to. So I wanted to make a podcast to beryllium that dependable to radical going done akin things."

Molly feels she lacked a web of radical she could subordinate to erstwhile she was unwell.

"Everything was either precise superior oregon told by professionals and aesculapian experts," she says.

"I truly deliberation if I could person listened to a podcast with idiosyncratic truly mean who's been done a akin thing, it would person helped maine immensely."

Molly besides wants to situation the thought that eating disorders are purely physical.

"People deliberation they are wholly astir weight, but with truthful galore radical value nonaccomplishment is conscionable a broadside effect of the eating disorder."

Molly's bid is called The Weigh Up: Eating Disorder Diaries and covers topics including binge eating and societal media.

It besides looks astatine the interaction connected families and friends - Molly doesn't privation the podcast to conscionable beryllium for radical with eating disorders.

"We've done episodes with my household members," she says.

"I deliberation conscionable to perceive their perspectives was truthful eye-opening due to the fact that anorexia, unfortunately, is simply a precise selfish illness.

"And I conscionable didn't adjacent see however my parents whitethorn beryllium feeling that their girl was truthful ill. So it was truthful insightful to perceive however overmuch upset I caused them."

Molly's bid was made aft she won the Rachael Bland New Podcast Award, launched successful 2019 successful honour of the BBC presenter who died successful 2018 from bosom cancer.

Rachael co-hosted You, Me And The Big C - an award-winning podcast which was praised for tackling the taxable of crab successful an archetypal and candid way.

Winners of the grant get the accidental to make their podcast thought with the BBC.

"Rachael's podcast was conscionable incredible, I learnt truthful overmuch from it," Molly says.

"I'm truthful inspired by the enactment of her and her co-presenters and I truly anticipation my podcast reaches that aforesaid level of community."

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