A while ago, we told you about ex-Mademoiselle editor Valerie Frankel's new book, This is the New Happy, and some of her shocking revelations about the world or fashion. But there's more -- in a recent article at the Daily Mail, Frankel discusses her life-long relationship with dieting -- starting when she was just 11 years old.

As a child, Frankel's parents put her on several diets to help her lose her adolescent chub, beginning a lifetime of self-doubt and weight worry. Dieting at a young age didn't sit will with Frankel. She says, "The blunt and sudden understanding - that if I wanted to continue to shine like the sun, to bask in praise and glory, I would have to eat celery sticks for ever - gave me a physical pain in the gut." But from that point on, she was constantly measuring portions, questioning food choices and striving to cut calories -- until a devastating loss caused her to re-examine her priorities.

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