Regardless of her applauded talents as an actor and writer, Anna McGahan is aware that many will still know her best for her breasts.that saw her physical assets eclipse her thespian skills, the part calling for her to appear naked so often, she admits it branded her the “sex girl” for years.
“This book has burned in me for years,” she explains, “to the point where I understood that I couldn’t really write anything else until it was out of me. It got to the point where it burnt so hot I was almost angry. I had a fierce need to tell the truth.” Even when doctors warned Anna she could die, “I still couldn’t eat without feeling like I was betraying my truest purpose. I couldn’t look at my body. It just hung off my soul, refusing to die. I hated it even more for its attempt at recovery. Perhaps it isn’t the starvation that destroys us as much as the hate.”
“My eating disorder and then sex were distractions, signs of my brokenness, and I had to whittle away the walls of my jail before I could slip out of it. I am aware that I could never have written this book had I still been struggling with these issues. My faith has given me not just the strength to look back, but a need to.”
“I have a friend who said, ‘Anna, let’s just call this what it is: weird.’ And I agree, it is. But the last thing I wanted to write was something preachy that tried to covert others. So, I wrote what I experienced, and yes, it was strange but also beautiful and profound. I wanted to show that what happened to me isn’t because I am in any way special. God is accessible to everyone.”
But doesn’t the Bible say that homosexuality is a sin? “The Bible is a beautiful and important text, but Jesus never promised us a Bible to tell us everything we need to do and how to live,” Anna insists. “He just told us the very nature of God is love, and so, to have rules that are inciting us away from love – is that God’s heart?”
wendy_squires Inspiring.
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wendy_squires Oh boy.
wendy_squires Always the victims 🤪