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Episode 317: Famished--How Purity Culture Taught Women to Shrink with Anna Rollins

Bare Marriage

Sheila Gregoire

Society & Culture, Science, Christianity, Advice, Family, Social Sciences, Mother, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Sex, Marriage, Wife

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Anna Rollins grew up as the kind of girl who took her faith seriously — and that's exactly why it hurt her so much. In this conversation, Anna and I dig into her memoir Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl, where she traces how purity culture's messages about desire, self-denial, and the body quietly fueled decades of disordered eating, compulsive exercise, and sexual pain. What strikes me most is that Anna's parents were loving, her church wasn't overtly abu...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Bear Marriage podcast. I'm Sheila Regreiguer from Bear Marriage.com,

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where we like to talk about healthy evidence-based biblical advice for your sex life and your

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marriage. And I am joined by my daughter Rebecca.

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Hello, hello. Just for a second. Because we have an amazing interview coming up with Anna Rollins,

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who wrote the book Famished. And this is right up your alley, actually. I'm sure you wish you

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had done the interview. Yeah, all this psychological stuff. Yeah, about millennials growing up in

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purity culture and how that actually impacted a lot of women

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with eating disorders. Yeah. So interesting. Yeah, I really enjoyed the book. Before we get to it,

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we just want to do a big shout out to our patrons who help support what we do. And we have an

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it might already be up. At the point of we're recording this, Joanna and I are going to be

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recording some never seen before quotes and clips from Emerson Anchorage, and I'm going to be recording some never seen before quotes and clips from Emerson Egrich. And I'm going

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