You can starve in any size body. People with atypical anorexia struggle to get diagnoses, treatment Eilís O'Neill November 18, 2025 / 8:00 am

When Erika Queen was growing up outside Olympia, classmates and family bullied her about her weight.

"I was always a chunky kid," she said. "I very quickly developed shame around it. As I got older and learned more about food and calories and nutrition and things like that. I latched onto that math like nobody’s business.”

Queen says she developed an eating disorder, going through long bouts of starving herself, skipping meals, eating many fewer calories than her body needed. She says she could have been diagnosed when she was as young as 9, but no one figured out she wasn’t eating.

“Nobody noticed,” she said. “Nobody notices when the fat

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