See which celebs have overcome heath struggles
The “Lover” singer revealed she has struggled with eating disorders and body image over the years in her 2020 Netflix documentary, Miss Americana. “It’s not good for me to see pictures of myself every day,” she said in a voiceover. “It’s only happened a few times, and I’m not in any way proud of it, [but in the past I’ve seen] a picture of me where I feel like I looked like my tummy was too big or … someone said that I looked pregnant … and that’ll just trigger me to just starve a little bit — just stop eating.”
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“I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old. So, I guess, for the past 10 years, I’ve had a really unhealthy relationship with food,” Lovato told 20/20 in 2011. She sought treatment in late 2010 for bulimia.
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In 2007, Clarkson admitted to struggling with bulimia after a skinnier, less talented singer stole her part in a high school musical. “I thought if I came back and I was cuter and thinner, then I’d get the role,” she told CosmoGirl. “It wasn’t smart. . .and I became bulimic for the next six months.”
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In 2009, The Hills star told Us how she began bingeing and purging after watching a scene she shot with Lauren Conrad in 2007: “I was horrified. I remember saying, ‘I can’t believe how huge I look walking over to Lauren.'”
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“I spent my entire life being obsessed with dieting,” the Bravo reality star told Us in 2011. “Bingeing and then fasting or starving. Forbidding everything. That’s how I used to be: up and down 5 pounds every single day, to the extremes. My metabolism was totally wrecked.”
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In her 2010 memoir, Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain, the actress revealed that she once put herself on a 300-calorie-per-day diet that led her to weigh a mere 82 pounds. “It wasn’t that I was proud of it, but it was certainly a recognition for my self-control,” she said.
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“I used to vomit after meals. It’s not something I’m proud of,” the British singer said in the 2010 documentary Riches to Rags. “A lot of people came up to me telling me how great I looked and I’d be on the cover of every magazine. . .But I wasn’t happy.”
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She may have survived a battle with cancer, but The Talk co-host admits she’s still fighting her eating disorder. “I’ve been able to conquer just about everything except bulimia,” she has said.
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“In high school, I really wouldn’t eat,” the Jersey Shore star said in 2010. “It got so crazy that I would only eat a cracker or a cucumber a day and I would feel full.” After her school nurse and her parents intervened, the 4’9″ MTV star “gained my weight back to like 98, where I always was.”
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In January 2006, the country singer checked into treatment to confront her eating disorder. “Food to me is what alcohol is to an alcoholic, and the struggle is up and down,” Judd told Larry King. “I had been using food for every emotion I had. . .and it became too much, so I did something about it.”
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The Spice Girl has been open about her struggles with bulimia. “It’s not really about food or the body shape,” she explained in 2003. “It’s just a way of dealing or coping with life. . .I really feel that what’s helped me is talking about it with other people who share the same addiction.”
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In her 2010 memoir, Reshaping It All, Cameron Bure revealed that she began binging and purging after Full House ended its run in 1995 and she moved to Canada with her new husband, NHL player Valeri Bure.
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In 2005, the Sopranos star came forward about her battle with exercise bulimia. “Knowing that I was able to overcome it and be healthy and happy again is amazing,” she told CNN. Sigler now serves as a spokeswoman for the National Eating Disorders Association.
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“I had terrible bulimia for about a year,” the actress told Easy Living in 2007. “I’ve still got the scars on my knuckles from where I put my fingers down my throat.” Now when she looks in the mirror, Newton says she sees a “happy, defiant, loving friend.”
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“I realized I was an anorexic, a bulimic, and a compulsive overeater,” the Family Ties actress told Entertainment Weekly in 1996. She checked into a 12-step program, which led to another calling. “I needed a concept of God that worked for me, and I wound up giving my life to Jesus Christ.”
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