I WILL LEARN TO LOVE MYSELF

Story of my REBIRTH!
Maya Puravida with Maria Monaco

“There was a moment when I thought I wouldn't survive, and that moment changed everything. I decided to tell my story because these months together with those who followed me taught me that our experience can be of help to other people, can prevent them from making the same mistakes, to recognize them in time, to stop a moment before everything becomes impossible to stop. It's a fine line, believe me, and you only recognize it after you've crossed it."


According to the Ministry of Health, in Italy today more than three million people suffer from DNA (nutrition and eating disorders) and tens of millions of young people and adults in the world get sick every year. The pandemic has further worsened the situation, with an estimated increase in cases of at least 30-35% and a lowering of the age of onset.

In order to help the many families who find themselves facing this problem, Maya Puravida wanted to talk together with her mother, Maria Monaco, about her anorexia and her journey of rebirth, publishing the book “Imparerò ad amarmi” for Piemme Edizioni.

Maya's story begins like that of many girls: she has a family that loves her, she likes to dream and loves to post on social media her dances with her friends. But she doesn't like school at all, and the difficulties with her teachers are combined with the first insecurities.

Maya finds a safe haven in her great passion, skating. Until something upsets her balance, and what at first seemed like just more attention to food, quickly becomes a dangerous obsession. Every meal, every workout, every look in the mirror turns into a test of endurance. Her body, which once allowed her to fly on the ice, begins to betray her. Her mother desperately tries to help her, but the real challenge is to overcome the wall that the disease has built between them. And while her body slowly gives way, Maya's mind rebels, convinced that she can challenge everyone, even her own heart which, due to its restrictions, is slowly giving way. Unfortunately, however, it is only the beginning of a long descent into the abyss of anorexia, which will lead her to weigh twenty-four kilos and to be hospitalized in intensive care.

Today, thanks to the help of her mother and family, Maya has managed to find the strength to get up again, tell her story and learn to love herself.

MAYA PURAVIDA is now a teenager like all the others. After a long battle with anorexia, she also tells her story on social media.

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