Chris Costner Sizemore, the Real Patient Behind ‘The Three Faces of Eve,’ Dies at 89
Psychiatrists believe that dissociation is a defense mechanism: a reaction to severe childhood trauma or prolonged physical, emotional or sexual abuse.
In Mrs. Sizemore’s case, the fragmentation in her mind began when she was as young as 2, after she had witnessed a series of gruesome incidents, including her mother being bloodily injured in a kitchen accident, the funeral of an infant, the dragging of a corpse from a ditch and a man being “cut in half by a saw at a lumber mill,” she told The Post.
.. “I once weighed 175 pounds because I was feeding three different people in the same body different meals,” she said.