"I feel like I've been battling it for four years, silently. At the spa with Jessi and Miranda, Layla admits she always feels like she weighs too much and she'll never be small enough. Now, she has lost all her energy and it's painful even to sleep, and she knows it can't go on."
"People telling her to eat something or that she was too skinny was like a dopamine rush, she says, because it showed that it was working. Much of what Layla says about her eating disorder feels like a warning. People don't talk about how addictive this is, she tells the confessional. She tells her friends she doesn't know how to stop."
The MomTokers cast faces multiple unresolved personal issues as the season concludes. Taylor's situation with Dakota appears settled, but Mikayla's marriage remains uncertain, Jen and Whitney's friendship is fractured, Jessi cannot file for divorce without resolving her prenup, and Demi's departure lacks closure. Layla's eating disorder storyline emerges late, revealing she battled anorexia in high school, recovered during pregnancy, then relapsed after her split. She describes silently struggling for four years, experiencing physical deterioration including energy loss and sleep pain. Online comments praising her thinness provided dopamine reinforcement, intensifying her disorder. Layla warns about GLP-1's addictive nature and expresses uncertainty about recovery.
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