Hi there,
My name is Kate Hudson-Hall, and I am a psychotherapist and author of ‘Bulimia Sucks!’ Which is a self-help book for people with the eating disorder Bulimia. I have a podcast channel called Bulimia Sucks and recently interviewed Sharrie Williams, Tom Lyle Williams (founder of Maybelline cosmetics,) great-niece. Sharrie is an award-winning speaker, Celebrity Columnist, Hollywood correspondent and author of The Maybelline Story. A gifted storyteller, Sharrie guides her readers through the birth of the Maybelline empire, revealing intimate and never-before-told details about the fascinating family dynasty.
In this episode, part 1 to be released on Tuesday 11th May, Sharrie inspiringly shares her journey throughout her privileged yet challenging life with her eating disorder, explaining:
How she was given diet tablets at the age of 12 because she was a larger girl and would be:
· An embarrassment to the family if she continued to gain weight.
· She would be seen as a failure.
· She would be rejected by the family and never find a husband.
· She had to be perfect in every way, from how she looked, her weight and presented herself.
The enormous pressure to ‘be perfect’ sent her off the diving board into an eating disorder, alcohol and drug abuse. Snorting cocaine for breakfast to prevent her from eating and with the pressures of becoming fat when pregnant, she joined weight watchers and stopped eating!
The podcast becomes intriguing yet inspiring as Sharrie discusses how she had to lose everything on the outside to gain everything inside. Hitting rock bottom after her grandmother ‘Miss Maybelline’ was murdered, the loss of her second child and her house burning to cinders before she began on her pathway to freedom learning:
· how she doesn’t always have to look and present perfection. Plus the realization she has a voice, not just her looks!
· how she can be comfortable in her own self.
· how she changed her thinking of who she had to be, to be loved and how she re-parented herself with compassion and forgave her father for being incapable of loving her unconditionally.
· a variety of empowering and encouraging ways to finally find herself, including many different therapies.
Sharrie also has her second book coming out in 2022 called MAYBELLINE: Out of the Ashes.
If you would like to follow up with me on any of these issues, I’d welcome the chance to chat.
Thank you so much.
Regards
Kate Kate Hudson-Hall
Author/Psychotherapist/Eating Disorder Therapist
https://wiseblueowl.co.uk/surrey-bulimia-expert-in-conversation-with-sharrie-williams-author-and-heir-to-the-maybelline-legacy/
