Sharing the Secret

Sharing the Secret is a 2000 American television drama film about a teenage girls struggle with bulimia and its effect on her parents and friends. Originally airing on CBS television networks in the United States, the film has also aired on cable televisions Lifetime Network. In 2001, the film received a Peabody Award for an impressive, moving, and candid portrait of a teenager in crisis.

The first sign of any problem comes with a dizzy misstep during a ballet class. Beth begs her instructor Irina Gasanova not to tell her mother Mare Winningham. In a later scene, Beth first hides a severe symptom bleeding gums from her friends, but then teaches one friend Kady Cole how to purge by inducing vomiting.When playing a game with another friend, Sophia Brighton Hertford, Beth cites her mothers complaints about the patients she sees in her child psychology practice as the cause of her greatest fear, which is to not fit in ... in some way. She tells her friend that she does not want to be like those people. ........

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