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Salon
Salon
Science
Elizabeth Hlavinka

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Bigorexia is often unrecognized in men - What They Never Told You

When Kenan was 16, he started going to the gym to get bigger. He had been bullied his entire life about his size, and once he started to see his body change in the mirror he couldn’t get enough.

“I got some results and then just ran with it,” Kenan, who is using his first name only for privacy reasons, told Salon in a phone interview. “It was like a dopamine loop from hell for the next 10 years.”

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