Anne Marie Sengillo at 150 pounds, left, and at 90 pounds, right. (Photo: Reddit/The Chive)

Imagine if you used the Internet to find support for recovering from your eating disorder, and help inspire others to overcome theirs. Now, imagine that photos of you at your most sick were used in an article on “amazing” weight loss transformations.

That’s exactly what happened to Anne Marie Sengillo of Cincinnati, Ohio.

View photos

Here’s the cover of the “amazing” weight loss transformations story in which Sengillo’s photos are a part of. (Photo: The Chive)

She tells Yahoo Health that she first learned from a concerned reader that the photos she posted of herself showing her experience with anorexia on Reddit had been republished — without her permission — on a website named The Chive, touted to detail “funny photos and videos.” The 27-year-old says she was shocked that the site only showed photos of her beginning weight at 150 pounds and her anorexic weight at 93 pounds in a positively spun story about weight loss transformations — not eating disorders.

Sengillo had posted a full album of photos documenting her path to recovery on Reddit. The album showed her going from 150 pounds to 70, 90, 110, 95, 105, 113, and 120 pounds.



View photos

“I was really mad because my whole reason for putting the pictures out there was to show, like, ‘Hey, there’s recovery, and relapse, but you can still get better,’” she tells Yahoo Health. “And they took all of that way. It made me physically sick because it upset me so much.”

View photos