I Beat My Eating Disorder Years Ago. Then I Started Taking a GLP-1

Mihaela Păun

Walking past the gift shop at the resort where we stayed over winter break, I heard someone call out: “Everyone’s talking about you.” It was the hotel manager, leaning out the door of the shop, waving at me. “Your body,” she said, rubbing her hands over her own biceps and then pointing to mine. “You must be working out a lot!” Since arriving in Jamaica, I had received a few comments about my “new” body. Many of the hotel guests return every year, so they knew what I normally looked like: