Keisha Lance Bottoms on Her Past Eating Disorder: We Dont Always Attach That to Black Girls @thegrio
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Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
She was a young woman trying to prove she had it together- at FAMU, in law school and in the world. And the whole time, she was carrying a secret nobody saw coming. 🎙️
Former ATL Mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms opens up in her new book about the eating disorder she battled in her younger years — and why even her closest family didn't believe it at first. "We don't always attach that to Black girls."

In her debut memoir 'The Rough Side of the Mountain,' she traces how shame, silence, and unprocessed trauma all connected in ways she didn't fully understand until therapy. This conversation with @natashasalford went DEEP.
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Keisha Lance Bottoms on Her Past Eating Disorder: 'We Don't Always Attach That to Black Girls'

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