. >> i think frank bruni is the smartest, hand somest, most wonderful human being in the world. that. i'm still afraid he's going to come get me. >> but what does frank bruni fear? you might be shocked to hear for much of his life, it was food. >> during my freshman year of college, i threw up a lot of my meals. whenever i would eat a meal that would get out of hand i would throw it up. i took laxatives. later on, in college, and later on out of college i took methamphetamines. >> when did it all start? >> you know, my mother used to always talk about a time when i was 18 mowasld and i was sitting in the high chair and she fed me two good sized burgers and i threw a tantrum because she wouldn't feed me a third one. that was the defining narrative of my childhood. >> it's the essence of his revealing new book "born round, the secret history of a full-time eater". >> i went through some extreme behaviors. some of my binges were epic and beyond what people can imagine. beyond that, is an extreme version of people's love/hate embrace/avoid relationship with food. >> he was trying so