The Butterfly Girl

For years, the reflection she saw in the mirror drove her to the edge of despair. She developed eating disorders and she attempted suicide. Now, she has a successful career in the modelling industry. This is her own true story.

Rachel Baughan

• Publisher: John Blake
• eBook ISBN:
  9781857827873
• Year: 2008

Racheal Baughan is 25 and lives in Crawley, west Sussex. She had recently started her own modelling agency, True Model Media, for which she will only take on girls of healthy body weight, and which she also uses as a platform to campaign against the modelling industry's promotion of underweight models.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Acknowledgements
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• 1 : My Family and Other Animals
• 2 : A Horsey Girl
• 3 : Bullied
• 4 : Bereft
• 5 : Things That Go Bump in the Night
• 6 : Learning the Hard Way
• 7 : Solitary Confinement
• 8 : Living With Fear
• 9 : Numbing the Pain
• 10 : A Ray of Hope
• 11 : Small Steps
• 12 : A New Relationship
• 13 : Creating Awareness
• 14 : A Surgical Solution?
• 15 : A Reality Check
• 16 : Trying to Pick Up the Pieces
• 17 : Working
• 18 : A Holiday in The Sun
• 19 : A Tragic Death and a Sudden Realisation
• 20 : Miss England 2004
• 21 : Unwelcome Attention
• 22 : The Samaritans
• 23 : True Model Media
• 24 : Miss Great Britain 2006
• 25 : A Hidden Agenda
• 26 : Miss Great Britain 2007
• 27 : Living Life to the Full
• 28 : Better the Devil You Know…
• 29 : Nature or Nurture?
• 30 : Looking Back
• The Samaritans
• Copyright