The Crown renews spotlight on bulimia, Diana s horrible illness TODAY 12/28/2020 A. Pawlowski
In an episode of “The Crown” ironically titled “Fairytale” Diana Spencer, the future princess of Wales, is desperately lonely, anxious and restless in Buckingham Palace in the days before her wedding to Prince Charles.
The Netflix series shows her sneaking into the kitchen and urgently devouring huge spoonfuls of chocolate pastries, one after another, straight out of the fridge. Most viewers know what will happen next even without watching because the real Princess Diana was frank about her struggle with bulimia: the binge eating is followed by self-induced vomiting.
December 21, 2020
Getting to 2021 has been a rocky road. But for many people, 2020 also offered chances to see things that matter most in a new light.
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2020 will go down as a truly terrible, awful, no-good, devastating, horrible year. Just about everyone is grieving some kind of loss a loved one, a job, a school year, or a family gathering.
Yet, there have also been many personal victories even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a nation, we learned just how resilient we can be. We learned how to adapt in ways we never had to before. We rediscovered the necessity of friendship and connection, and that simple gestures and steps go a really long way.