Full, but Empty.

She looked fine. She wasn’t.

For fifteen years, Carly showed up. She smiled. She answered emails. She laughed at the right moments and appeared, by every outward measure, completely okay.

Behind closed doors, she was falling apart.

Full, But Empty is a short, deeply personal memoir about living with binge eating disorder, not the kind that announces itself, but the kind that can hide in plain sight.

It is a story about shame, control, secrecy, and the exhausting cycle of trying to fix what was visible while avoiding what was happening underneath.

With raw honesty, Carly looks back at the years she spent appearing fine while quietly struggling, and at the question she eventually had to ask herself:

What am I actually running from?

This is not a story about getting thin.

It is a story about getting free.

For anyone who has ever looked fine on the outside while feeling anything but fine inside, Full, But Empty is a reminder that some of the hardest battles are the ones nobody sees.

A short memoir by Carly Bianca Shartin.