About this episode

Jackie Goldschneider discusses her journey with anorexia and the importance of understanding eating disorders as mental health issues.

REPLAY! This conversation is too important to hear only once, and Jackie Goldschneider is exactly the reason why. Eating disorder recovery is not about food, and she wants you to understand why. On this episode of Wellness Junkies, host Amy Sherman sits down with Jackie Goldschneider, author, activist, and Real Housewives of New Jersey former cast member, to talk about something rarely discussed with this level of honesty. Jackie lived with anorexia for nearly two decades before finding her way to health in her mid-forties, and her story is a reminder that eating disorder recovery can happen at any stage of life. Her memoir, The Weight of Beautiful, was born from the experience she wished she'd had when she was searching for answers. She opens up about what it felt like to live inside an illness that nobody around her truly understood, why eating disorders in women so often go unrecognized, and what she wants families to know about eating disorder mental health. Telling someone to just eat does not work, and this conversation explains why. Jackie also reflects on the relationship between mental health and body image, the role compulsive movement played in her disorder, and the…

People in this episode

Host: Amy Sherman

Guest: Jackie Goldschneider

Topics covered

• eating disorders
• mental health
• recovery
• body image
• personal stories

Keywords

• eating disorder recovery
• mental health
• anorexia
• body image
• compulsive movement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Real Housewives of New Jersey

Books & works: The Weight of Beautiful

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