Elna Baker Biography, Age, Weight, Husband, Education, Net worth..........

Elna Baker is an American writer and comedian. She is also an executive producer for the radio program This American Life. She has performed her humorous stories for The Moth, BBC Radio 4 and Studio 360. In October 2009, Penguin Books published her book The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance, which chronicles her

Elna Baker is an American writer and comedian. She is also an executive producer for the radio program This American Life. She has performed her humorous stories for The Moth, BBC Radio 4 and Studio 360. In October 2009, Penguin Books published her book The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance, which chronicles her experience as a young, single Mormon living in New York City.

Elna Baker Age

Elna Baker is an American writer and comedian. She is also an executive producer for the radio program. The program is called This American Life.

She has performed her humorous stories for The Moth, BBC Radio 4 and Studio 360. Elna was born in 1982 in Tacoma, Washington, United States. She is 37 years old as of 2019.

Elna Baker weight

In a fascinating article for Refinery29, Elna Baker shared her personal experience with extreme weight loss and the mental and physical impact it had on her. 

Baker was overweight most of her life and, at her heaviest, weighed 265 pounds. By her mid-20s she’d had enough and lost 110 pounds. Apr 10, 2019

Elna Baker Personal life

Baker has had cosmetic surgery to remove excess skin from her weight loss, as well as breast augmentation surgery to match her pre-weight loss breast size.

She suffers from idiopathic craniofacial erythema or chronic blushing, and for years used scarves and turtlenecks to hide it.

In a 2017 episode of This American Life, she recounted losing a television role because she looked “too nervous” on camera, an incident that made her want to get surgery to correct the problem.

After learning of the procedure’s side effects and moderate efficacy, however, she backed away from the idea. Baker remained a Mormon into adulthood.

At 24, she got engaged to a fellow Mormon and moved to Utah to live with him, but called off the wedding when she realized she could not have the life she wanted there.

She was famously a virgin until age 28. She currently lives in New York City. Elna has left the LDS Church since the publication of her book. Baker married designer Mark Sikes in 2016. The couple later divorced.

Elna Baker Husband(Mark Sikes Elna baker )

At 24, she got engaged to a fellow Mormon and moved to Utah to live with him, but called off the wedding when she realized she could not have the life she wanted there. She married designer Mark Sikes in 2016. The couple later divorced.

Elna Baker Early Life And Education

Baker was born in Tacoma, Washington,[citation needed] and was raised as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in what she describes as a “half-Mexican, half-Mormon” family.

After age nine, the family moved to Madrid, Spain. Their daily routine included “Bible practice,” sewing lessons, and chastity instruction.

Neither profanity nor magazines were permitted in the home. They later moved to London. Her father runs a titanium factory in Russia, where her parents now reside.

Baker attended The American School in London. Upon graduating, she was accepted into the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. When she chose the school over Brigham Young University (a Mormon school), she says her mother asked her what she would do if a lesbian tried to make out with her.

During her senior year at NYU, Baker was one of twelve students selected to write and workshop a show with the playwright Elizabeth Swados. Impressed with Baker’s talent, Swados encouraged her to perform her stories live.

For the rest of the semester, Baker would go over Swados’s home on Fridays to learn about storytelling, a mentorship that continued for the next seven years.

When a friend mentioned a club called the Moth, Baker started to go and was suddenly got to perform on the main stage when Lewis Black had to cancel at the last minute.

In her memoir, Baker recounts being overweight growing up, eventually reaching close to 265 pounds. Friends and family told her she would never be able to reach her dreams of being a wife and actress as long as she was “fat.”

A year after college, however, she went to a weight clinic, began a deprivation diet, and took phentermine that her doctor prescribed. She lost 110 pounds and says she was startled and saddened to receive lots of positive attention she had not received before.

Within a month, she got a job as an usher on the Letterman Show with the responsibility of seating people according to their physical appearances.

Elna Baker Writing

Baker’s writings and humor often relate to her experiences in New York City, coming of age as a Mormon, and the resultant abstinence from premarital sex, drugs, alcohol, and profanity. After an article she wrote for Elle magazine, she was offered the chance to write a book.

To find a suitable writing environment, she applied for and was awarded residencies at both the MacDowell and Yaddo artist colonies in 2007 and 2008.

In 2009, she released a memoir called The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance, named for the annual Mormon singles dance held in New York City.

Kirkus Reviews called the book “a sexy, lubricious outing by a formerly zaftig comic.” People magazine gave the book four stars, calling it a “wicked-funny debut.”

This American life Elna baker And Elna baker weight loss

Elna Baker lost a lot of weight, 110 pounds. When she was fat, she wasn’t able to get a job or a boyfriend and sometimes thought, “I wonder if it’s my weight.”

She figured no, that’s a bad attitude, paranoia. When she lost the weight she discovered it was ALL because of her weight. A book Elna discusses in this story is Dietland by Sarai Walker. (19 minutes).

When it comes to losing large amounts of weight, shedding the pounds is only half the battle. As anyone who’s ever watched The Biggest Loser knows, the real work starts after you hit your magic number as it takes just as much, if not more, effort to maintain it. (Plus, make sure you know The Truth About Weight Gain After The Biggest Loser.)

Elna Baker knows how real this struggle is. The comedian and author recently shared the story of her 110-pound weight loss with the popular podcast This American Life. After being overweight or obese most of her life, she finally decided to lose the weight in her early twenties and signed up at a weight loss clinic in New York City. She lost 100 pounds in just five and a half months by eating a healthy diet, exercising and…taking phentermine that her doctor prescribed her.

Phentermine is an amphetamine-like drug that was half of the popular weight loss combo Fen-Phen, which was pulled from the market in 1997 after studies found that 30 percent of people taking it experienced heart problems. Phentermine is still available by prescription on its own, but it’s now marketed as just a “short-term” obesity treatment.

Finally thin, Baker discovered it was everything she hoped it would be. She was suddenly getting job opportunities, finding romance, and even getting free groceries, all thanks to her newly svelte figure. She eventually had expensive skin removal surgery to make her transformation complete. (Don’t miss: Real Women Share Their Thoughts On Post-Weight Loss Skin Removal Surgery.)

But even though she stuck with her healthy diet and exercise routine, she eventually found that the weight started creeping back on. So she returned to what she knew worked.

“Here’s something I never tell people. I still take phentermine. I take it for a few months at a time a year, or sometimes it feels like half of the year.

I can’t get it prescribed anymore, so I buy it in Mexico or online, though the online stuff is fake and doesn’t work as well,” she admitted on the show. “I know how this sounds. I know exactly how messed up it is.”

But how hard is it exactly to maintain a weight loss? And how many people are resorting to desperate measures like Baker’s in order to do so? The research is conflicting, to the say the least. One frequently cited a study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that as few as one to two out of every 100 people who lose weight maintain the loss past two years, while another study put the number closer to five percent. And a UCLA study found that a third of dieters actually regain more weight than they initially lost.

Those numbers are hotly contested, however, with other studies, including this one published by the American Journal of Nutrition, saying the panic is overblown and that about 20 percent of dieters will maintain their loss long-term.

Much of the confusion seems to stem from the fact that long-term controlled human studies on weight loss are relatively rare and very expensive, so we’re often left with studies based on self-report-and people are notorious liars when it comes to talking about their weight, food intake, and exercise habits.

But whichever number you choose, it still leaves at least 80 percent of people in the incredibly frustrating position of regaining all the weight they worked so incredibly hard to lose. So it’s hardly surprising that many people turn to dubious supplements, black-market pills, and eating disorders to keep the weight off. One survey conducted by the magazine now claims that one in seven women say they have used drugs, either prescription or illegal, to lose weight. In addition, nearly half said they used herbal supplements and 30 percent admitted to purging after a meal. A separate investigation chalked up at least part of the explosion in ADHD prescriptions, like Adderall and Vyvanse, and their popularity on the black market, to their well-known side effect of weight loss.

Unfortunately, these methods all have other well-known harmful side effects ranging from dependence to disease to even death. But that’s a price Baker says she’s willing to pay to maintain the privileges she’s gained from being skinny. “I’ve thought before that [phentermine] may be affecting my health. It feels that way,” she said. “I’ve intentionally never Googled the side effects.”

It’s impossible to say exactly how many turn to desperate measures to maintain a weight loss as people are understandably reluctant to tell researchers (or maybe in denial) about drug use or disordered eating behaviors but Baker’s story makes one thing clear: It’s happening and we all need to be talking about it more. (And soon, Because There Is a Serious Global Obesity Problem.)

Elna baker Mormon

Baker remained a Mormon into adulthood. At 24, she got engaged to a fellow Mormon and moved to Utah to live with him, but called off the wedding when she realized she could not have the life she wanted there. She was famously a virgin until age 28.

Elna Baker The Moth

When Baker’s friend mentioned a club called the Moth, she started to go and was suddenly got to perform on the main stage when Lewis Black had to cancel at the last minute.

Elna Baker Net Worth

She has an estimated net worth of $500,000.

Elna Baker Instagram

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