I'm 18 and apparently I'm a model. I used to follow a pretty strict low-carb diet and after losing a lot of weight I got offered a modelling contract and moved states to work as a model. But I didn't get any work and don't think my agency is very good.
I got extremely underweight but when I started anxiety meds for GAD my restricting diet stopped. I didn't have the energy to follow the same diet. I always binged and ate huge portions but of meat and veges mostly. If I binged on nuts I would work it off in the gym the next day and my weight was stable. But when I took the new meds I was so slow and foggy I didn't have the energy to keep up the routine and my usual binges started including junk food and take away meals I never would have touched.
I would also start going to the food court at uni and secretly going to the big bins and in plain sight I'd take containers out of meals people hadn't finished like chinese takeaway or burgers and chips. I'm a poor student so the free food seemed great but it got worse and worse. Don't know if even legal! If it was available to me, I'd eat it even if it meant eating 6 or 7 whole meals of take away. I wouldn't ever justify actually buying a meal cause it's expensive and unhealthy. I'd buy healthy groceries but eat everything in one day and steal junk food from my housemates.
Therapy never helped. I think I'm smarter than the level my therapist could deal with which sounds vain but maybe true. I'd heard all the advice before. But I'm not in a place where I feel like being mindful and changing (probably from the meds which I need to sleep) and I've gained more than all the weight I lost originally.
I can't work as a model because I'm not thin enough and my agency makes me feel awful, but i'm on a three year contract so I just go to castings and don't get picked for jobs.

Keen to hear if anyone has had to deal with the fashion industry, or has dived into a public bin for food, or stolen from housemates, or hasn't benefitted from expensive therapy.

Thanks