Ellen is edgy. Ellen uses Tumblr. Ellen likes art – Ellen suffers from anorexia . To the Bone is a story that follows Ellen (played by Lily Collins), an anorexic, and sometimes annoyingly pessimistic, twenty-year old whose stepmother has tried everything to get her to stop her dangerous habits. In this journey of seeking help, they arrive at Dr. Beckham’s, a doctor with nontraditional methods of treating his patients, who agrees to take Ellen in at Threshold, a house filled with other in-patients, all with their own varying eating disorders. The movie follows her stay there, and gives us a, sometimes graphic, insight into what people with anorexia go through – or rather, what Ellen goes through. Because, as the movie highlighted, everyone struggling with an eating disorder has a different story, a different look, a different way to inflict the damage and their own barriers to overcome. I’ll admit, and I’m not sure for anyone else, but I had brushed off an eating disorder as jus