You're listening to Family Talk, the radio broadcasting division of the James Dobson Family Institute.

I am that James Dobson, and I'm so pleased that you've joined us today.

Well, welcome back to Dr. James Dobson's family talk.

I'm Roger Marsh sitting in the co-host seat today.

And our guest is actress, singer, producer, philanthropist, foster mom, Jen Lilly, who's

the author of, among other things, but she's the author of a brand new devotional book called

Wake Up Your Faith, 365 daily encounters with Jesus, a journey of spiritual renewal and divine purpose,

which we have up at Dr. James Dobson.org. Jen Lilly, welcome back to Dr. James Dobson's family

talk. Thank you so much, Roger. I cannot wait to keep talking. How long had you had, were you and Jason

married before you had that come to Jesus moment where you had to say,

you know what, sweetheart, I have an eating disorder because he didn't know, and you were hiding it,

apparently so very, very well.

I will say for parents that are listening, if you're concerned that your daughter and even boys

suffer with eating disorders, part of what drove me into bulimia was my parents knew I was struggling with anorexia.

So when I was trying to get better, I asked them for healthy food.

I was like, I really want vegetables and grilled chicken because mentally I needed to know that

the calories I were putting in was like healthy, high quality calories.

It was like helped my mental struggle. The eating disorder

was also brought on because I had all these issues. I had to be put on hormone therapy as a kid.

I was packing on weight because of a medication. So I'm freaking out and just trying to control it.

When I wanted to just have grilled chicken and vegetables, My parents took that as a red flag to she's

suffering with an eating disorder again. And so they would not feed me healthy food. They were like,

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