Edit: I missed the part asking about what led me to Sarah.
I’m 17 haha - first discovered GG when I was 15. I’ve always wondered if I was one of the youngest here
I discovered her at the start of year 9 (I was 14) and was heavily stuck in a spiral of disordered eating and over exercising (probably orthorexia looking back at it), though for me it was just being fit and healthy (motivated by being terrified of being ‘fat’ again). A YouTuber I watched mentioned her videos so I had a look and was instantly drawn in by her promotion of ‘health’ and ‘balance’, which in many ways enabled my destructive processes at the time. I bought a few of her activewear pieces etc and was never a crazy obsessed stan but definitely a big fan. I was looking her up on google one day and came across the GG threads - at first I hate read them and laughed at how stupid they were (‘they think she has an ED? Lmao how stupid - she’s just enjoying a balanced life’ // ‘no her activewear isn’t absolute
tit, it’s FANTASTIC and SO CUTE’ etc etc) but as time went on I began to see more and more merit in what people were saying. I lowkey got kinda obsessed with reading the threads every hour (I have a kind of obsessive nature) so I took a break from reading them completely and got sucked back into the Sezzy Wonderland for a couple of months. I can’t remember exactly what triggered my return to GG but I think I started checking up on it again and realised how right you all were and I’ve been here ever since (for the last year or something - basically just after her swimwear launch)
sorry that was so long haha