Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
‘Sick Enough’ for Care: The Truth About Getting Eating Disorder Treatment in America
glamour.comat age 18. Her family insurance covered a two-month stint at a residential eating disorder treatment center in St. Louis, Missouri, however, four weeks into treatment, her coverage was under review.
Though she still required a feeding tube, felt suicidal, refused meals, and cried at meals, she had gained enough weight to classify as , and showed some stabilized lab values.
On paper, according to her insurance company, she was “better.” “The minute you find out that you're on the chopping block with insurance in the midst of an anorexic meltdown, I feel like treatment kind of stops there,” Boland, now 21, told Glamour in February. “I was immediately just terrified and went into crisis management mode.”Boland was discharged from residential treatment even though her therapist, dietician, and psychiatrist didn’t think she was ready.
With no step-down options (a.k.a. less intensive ) because of the COVID-19 pandemic and lack of insurance coverage, she was on her own. “So, I go home, and I start purging…And then once those floodgates are open, I start binging, which is something I couldn’t have ever imagined myself doing,” she remembers.“Insurance had kind of proven to me, no, I’m not that sick,” she says. “Everyone’s telling me I’m sick and I need to put in this massive effort to recover, but I’m just not sick enough.” At least 30 million Americans have an eating disorder, but only get the treatment they need.
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