'I knew teenage girls did it': male eating disorders are on the rise

By Sarah Berry
Updated June 14 2019 - 3:54pm, first published 3:50pm

Braiden Fitzsimmons was eight years old when he started to think he was "bigger" than his school friends. The footy and basketball-loving boy from Geelong says he was never bullied about his weight, although he did cop the occasional "fat joke". At the age of 10 he started thinking he wanted to change his body. "A lot of the other kids I played sport with were, to me, a lot slimmer and more in shape," he recalls.

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