--- description: Actress Rachael Farrokh shared her story of her ongoing battle with anorexia recently, raising over $100,000 on a GoFundMe account. title: California Woman Struggling With Severe Anorexia Shares Her Story image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Living](/tag/time-section-living/) ## Living Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # California Woman Struggling With Severe Anorexia Shares Her Story  by [Jack Linshi](/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 24, 2015 5:26 PM CUT  by [Jack Linshi](/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 24, 2015 5:26 PM CUT A California woman desperate to win her 10-year fight with anorexia shared her story online recently, ultimately raising enough money to transfer her to a specialized medical facility. Rachael Farrokh, 37, opened up to ABC last week about her story of dropping from 125 pounds to a life-threateningly low weight—so low that many hospitals won’t admit her due to liability reasons, according to her [GoFundMe](http://www.gofundme.com/savemyrachael "undefined") page. The crowdfunding campaign, set up by her husband and caretaker, Rod Edmondson, 41, has raised more $160,000 of the $100,000 goal over 24 days. “I want other anorexics to hear this,” Farrokh said. “This is miserable. Everything hurts from my head down to my toes. It’s really hard to \[stay on topic\], so what I try to do is have conversations with Rod and keep in contact with other victims on Facebook to be encouraging and supportive of one another.” [Read more at ](http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/california-womans-shocking-descent-anorexia-words/story?id=31041745 "undefined")[ABC](http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/california-womans-shocking-descent-anorexia-words/story?id=31041745 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3895309/anorexia-rachael-farrokh/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3895309/anorexia-rachael-farrokh/"},"headline":"California Woman Struggling With Severe Anorexia Shares Her Story","datePublished":"2015-05-24T17:26:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:57:03.253Z","description":"\"I want other anorexics to hear this\"","url":"https://time.com/3895309/anorexia-rachael-farrokh/","keywords":["Living","Body Image"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jack Linshi","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3895309/anorexia-rachael-farrokh/","name":"California Woman Struggling With Severe Anorexia Shares Her Story"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Truth About Fat","description":"When you want to lose weight or get healthy, what is the first thing you would normally cut from your diet? If you said fat, you're not alone","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/uYGhfNfS/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-06-12T14:12:58.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/uYGhfNfS.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3895309/anorexia-rachael-farrokh/","duration":"PT5M15S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3895309/anorexia-rachael-farrokh/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```