In 2005, when she was only 15, Chelsea Roff woke up in a wheelchair in the psychiatric unit of a hospital in Texas.

Woke up is the wrong term. She was conscious for the month she had already spent at Children's Medical Center Dallas, but to this day she doesnt remember a moment of it.

She weighed a staggering 58 pounds and had suffered a stroke at a Whole Foods while shopping with her younger sister. Chelsea was two weeks away from her sixteenth birthday and would stay in that hospital for 18 months.

At the time of her hospitalization for acute anorexia, Child Protective Services (CPS) took her out of her mothers care and deemed her doctors her legal guardians. Chelseas sister was sent to live with their godparents and the girls didnt see one another for a very long time.

Born in 1989 in conservative Williamson County, Texas, Chelsea was bullied in school for being the girl with lesbian parents.

Her mother was disowned by her family when she told them she was gay. She got pregnant with Chelsea with the help of an anonymous sperm donor as a way to prove her close-minded family wrong when they told her she would never be happy and would never be a mother.