She’s back on the right path.
Hearts broke in May after a Southern California woman begged the world for help with her battle with anorexia.
Once a lively actress, Rachael Farrokh bravely displayed her skeletal 44-pound body in a YouTube video called “Road to Recovery.”
The gaunt woman believed she would die without receiving proper medical treatment.
With the help of her husband, who quit his job to provide care, Farrokh raised almost $200,000 for treatment via donations from kind strangers on the Internet.
Farrokh showed off her amazing progress at an event to raise awareness for eating disorders in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, according to NBC 4 in Los Angeles.
“I was finally treated with respect,” she said of her transformation. “I didn’t know that I deserved it.”
Now she wants other anorexia sufferers to receive the same quality of treatment as she did at a specialized clinic in Portugal.
“They were so worried about my body, and my body wasn’t responding because they didn’t understand the brain had to come along with the body,” Farrokh said. “My mind is so much more clear and my thinking has developed.”
Marching in D.C. is just the beginning for Farrokh who changed careers from actress to activist. She wants to push congress to step up insurance coverage for people with eating disorders.
“I have so many people backing my now and I have a platform to actually create this awareness, so to sit on the sidelines is impossible for me,” she said.
