"I took desperate measures to lose weight and did terrible things to myself. I went from diet pills to thirty laxatives a day to throwing up."

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But the uproar this caused was nothing compared with the uproar when Katronia noticed [Rosie] had also cut her eyelashes. Various negotiations (including, finally, such desperate measures as "supposing you ever want to eat again") eventually produced the grudging promise that, in return for Katronia keeping her hair cut short, she would leave her eyelashes alone.

— Robin McKinley