The story starts where Ellie and her two best friends, Magda and Nadine, are Christmas shopping at the Flowerfields Shopping Centre. While they shop, they notice a large buzz of an event going on upstairs. Nadine wonders if it is television. Magda replies, "Wow, I hope so" and steers the other two upstairs. It turns out to be a modelling competition for Spicy magazine, which Ellie discovers after seeing a lot of pretty and thin teenage girls getting their photos taken. Ellie stares in horror as she realizes what she has been in the line waiting. She witnesses Magda and Nadine being photographed, seeing how Nadine is "model-girl" thin (Wilson). It is Ellie's turn to be photographed, but she runs away, pushing people through the line as she goes, with the result that one of the girls says, "She's far too fat for modelling!”(Wilson). Ellie who was hurt and upset, leaves and goes home. This is where her obsessive dieting starts and she battles with a messy form of dieting, making herself sick once or twice. Despite the warnings from her family and friends, she still goes on a crash diet, exercising too much and starving herself, trying to become skinnier.…