00:00 EDA: Pole dancing makes me feel confident
and strong, sexy, sensual, all of it.
00:12 COMM: Eda Marbury is turning her life around,
one spin on the pole at a time. Just two years ago she couldn't bear to look in the mirror.
But now she's an internet sensation, inspiring thousands around the world.
00:26 EDA: I wanted to put my story out there and
put my videos out there for other people to see and to try to gain inspiration from and
to realise that they're not alone and that there's a community for them.
00:37 EDA: Growing up my relationship with my body
wasn't very healthy because I was anorexic from seventh grade all the way 'till college.
I just didn't eat and then I would prepare food and pretend like I was going to eat it
and convince myself that I was sick, and then I just wouldn't eat any of it.
00:53 COMM: After meeting her husband Terrik in
college Eda began to eat again but her relationship with food spiralled out of control. She soon
weighed 380lbs, and her confidence plummeted
01:06 EDA: I was a very closed off person and I
didn't really discuss a lot of the issues that was going on in my life. I was in denial
about my weight because I just refused to believe that I had gained that much weight.
01:18 EDA: That mindset prevented me from doing
a lot of things like going to concerts with Terrik or like going to baseball games, I
just didn't want to go anywhere around people.
01:29 COMM: It was then Eda decided she needed to
turn her life around and began pole dancing. After just a few weeks she was hooked, and
so far she has lost 65lbs.
01:38 EDA: I was afraid at first of people laughing
at me and making fun of me because I didn't want people to discourage me, but once I started
going and the weight fell off I felt more confident about what I was doing and it didn't
matter what people were going to say.
01:53 TERRIK: When she first started pole dancing
I told her great, go ahead and do it because I wanted you to get out and get active. From
the first day she's always enjoyed it, she always has fun and now she actually has a
really big group of friends that she always enjoys to go work out with.
02:08 CHELSIE: Since Eda started pole dancing I've
noticed that she's a lot more confident and then she's also just a lot of fun to be around
in general.
02:15 JENNIFER: It's just really been amazing to
see her grow, we've seen her physical changes, we've seen the emotional changes. I've seen
just her personality change. She was always an outgoing and fun girl but now she is just
really living life to the fullest.
02:28 EDA: It's changed me in my everyday life,
in my marriage, in my job. I'm a lot more confident, I'm happier, I love the way I look,
I look in the mirror more often, I take more time on myself. I don't say no to a lot of
things anymore.
02:45 COMM: And when Eda decided to share her dancing
on Facebook, nothing could have prepared her for the reaction.
02:51 EDA: Some of the negativity I've received
was that I am unhealthy and that I should lose weight before I start posting videos
and that I don't love myself. Somebody told me I should commit suicide.
03:01 EDA: Here's a good one. Great every time I
hear this song now I think of this ghastly attention seeking video and your talentless
fat butt doing nothing of any use or skill around a pole that's barely stable in a hideously
decorated room. What exactly are you trying to prove.
03:21 TERRIK: I wish people would just read on your
videos and not just talk.
03:26 COMM: However the majority of comments have
been supportive.
03:30 EDA: I've gotten and overwhelming amount of
messages from people telling me their story as well as people pouring in, commenting on
my video, telling me y'know that they're really happy that I'm doing this that this is what
they needed to get their boost up.
03:45 EDA: People are actually looking at me and
saying holy crap I want to be like this girl, and they don't even realise how inspiring
they are themselves to someone like me.