A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor's examining table, missing yet another day of school. Just twelve, she's tall, skinny, & weak. It's four o'clock, & she hasn't been allowed to eat anything all day. Her mother, on the other h&, seems curiously excited. She's about to suggest open-heart surgery on her child to 'get to the bottom of this.' She checks her teeth for lipstick &, as the doctor enters, shoots the girl a warning glance. This child will not ruin her plans. From early childhood, Julie Gregory was continually X-rayed, medicated, & operated on-in the vain pursuit of an illness that was created in her mother's mind. Munchausen by Proxy (MBP) is the world's most hidden & dangerous form of child abuse, but Julie Gregory not only survived, she escaped the powerful orbit of her mother's madness & rebuilt her identity as a vibrant, healthy young woman.