Perfection.

     Tammy stared at herself in the mirror. She could still see them in her mind's eye.
    "oh, i love your smile, it just brightens up the place!"
    "Such beautiful skin. What cream do you use?"
    The guys when they attempted at being charming.
    "Wow! You are gorgeous!"
    "You are Beauty, personified!"
    "Girl, you are perfect!"
    Oh, and the ones the ladies whispered when they thought she couldn't hear them.
    "How does she manage to be so said?!" Ha! Would that that was true.
     "She captivates everyone! Including my stupid husband!"
     "she must have had surgery, no one can be that perfect!"
   Tammy grimaced. Then scowled. Were they so stupid that they couldn't see that she was so fat? Or that her nose was a tad to big for her face? She hissed. Stupid people. They couldn't even see that her wait was set too high. Her ass was too big, her hips too wide and her skin had this hyper pigmentation on her left elbow.
    But no, they didn't see that. They wanted to deceive her. Well, she's got eyes and she can see she's as fat as a pig.
    Tammy, really was a beautiful girl. She had the best features from both her parents. But here she was, obsessed about perfection. As time went on, she got skinnier and even more skinnier. Her mum, a plump 48 year old, called her.
    "my dear, are you okay?
    "Yes, mum".
    Well, you are looking skinnier than healthy!"
    "oh, really?" She smiles, "its the new weight loss tea i got".
    "But, honey, you were perfect the way you were"
    "mum, am fine!" she stood up.
    "okay" The woman said, resigned.
   Tammy was so angry. She wants me to be like her! Fat! I have only managed to lose 5 pounds after so many months.
    That evening, after dinner, which she had taken time to prepared, Tammy went to her room, went straight to the weight check contraption in her room, and couldn't believe her eyes. It was all lies. She had not shed even a pound! She burst into tears! Oh, and she just gorged on food. Promptly, she went into her toilet, stuffed her fingers in her throat, and vomited all she just ate. She felt better already. She always felt better after this.
    Tammy's parents were concerned for their daughter and finally got her help. The therapist put a name to her condition: Anorexia Nervosa. The cause was an irrational desire to be thin, despise already being underweight. Tammy's mother with tears asked her daughter, "why?"
    She replied, "l want to be perfect; i don't want to be fat like you!" Her mum was shocked, and she had nothing to say. But her father did.
    "Your mum is perfect. You used to be perfect too, but now? You are just a bag of bones".
    Tammy burst into tears.