These parents know but feel powerless to help, short of hospitalizing their daughters. One mom has been blaming the high school cheer coach for her daughter's illness; it's certainly true that the cheer coach weighed them in front of each other every couple of weeks and announced their weights to shame them into losing weight. I think there's a special place in hell for that coach.
The other family lives down the street and their daughter looks like a skeleton with skin pasted on it. She used to be on the high school volleyball team with BlazerCheer and Ballerina and she was a great player. She goes to Valdosta and last year her sorority played against theirs in intramural volleyball. She's been far too weak to play this year and it used to be her favorite activity.
Baby Berry and I saw her right before recruitment and neither of us recognized her.
