Was hospitalized
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When Peg Parnevik releases an audiobook, she doesn’t hold back.
In “The Golfer’s Daughter”, she talks about everything from infidelity to when she had to be admitted to hospital.
– It felt like something was trying to eat me from the inside, she says.
– Have some more breakfast and mimosas while we wait for Peg’s mother.
We are at Storytells office at Riddarholmen in Stockholm. Peg Parnevik30, has an event where she will read aloud from her upcoming audiobook “The Golfer’s Daughter”.
Mia Parnevik58, is late, a woman announces. And Peg wants to wait for her mother.
When Mia rushes in with a breakfast sandwich in full swing, she first hugs The Wannadies singer Pär Wiksten which is also there. Then she sits down next to her daughter who has made room for her.
Now we can begin.
– I thought my sister would be here, but she wrote five minutes before that she couldn’t come, so now we’re driving anyway. This chapter is about siblings.
Peg reads aloud from some pink papers.
Mia films and smiles proudly.
When she hears her eldest daughter talking about her love for her siblings, tears start to roll down her cheeks.
– But mother! Peg exclaims.
– This is a fun breakfast, Mia says jokingly and wipes away the tears while laughing.
Peg herself describes the audiobook as a book about her life.
– It goes hand in hand with my debut album “Eldest Child”. So it’s everything from sibling love to being properly heartbroken, to performance anxiety and stomach ulcers.
She has previously talked openly about her life and what she has been through, but says that in the audiobook she goes even deeper into several of her life traumas.
– This is at a sick level. It’s very deep and very honest.
Peg Parnevik: “Couldn’t stand up”
Something she hasn’t talked about before, but which she brings up in the book, is when she had to be hospitalized last year.
– It was like my whole body was glowing, and I felt so bad that I couldn’t stand up. It felt like something was trying to eat me from the inside. I was just like, “I don’t know what’s going on.” And then I started cascading vomit.
She and her boyfriend at the time went to the emergency room. It turned out that Peg had suffered a stomach ulcer.
– And it struck me when I brought this up in the book that many of these side effects of eating disorders come afterwards.
She continues:
– Now I’m 30, soon to be 31, and feeling well. Or better. And then I will have to have a lot of crap from an eating disorder that absolutely lives with me every day, but I feel free from it. But now I have to take this shit. So it was a little, yes, but the sadness in that it never leaves one.
Recently Peg posted one posts on Instagram where she wrote that her eating disorder had been triggered recently.
“Maybe it’s summer and you never feel ‘ready?’ That you become claustrophobic from the heat? Maybe it’s because everyone has become so fucking skinny?” she wrote.
She also mentioned that it felt silly to be an adult with an eating disorder. The post has been widely praised.
– The nicest thing was that there were a lot of older women who were so cheerful, says Peg.
At the same time, she says that it is difficult to hear that so many elderly people also feel bad about their eating disorders.
– It is sad that even someone who is 60 plus has the same thoughts. But the beauty of it is that we have each other.
“The golfer’s daughter” will be released as an audiobook on July 13 on Storytel.
