Brittany Snow suffered from anorexia
Brittany Snow suffered from eating disorder
Hairspray star Brittany Snow, 21, hsrecently told MTVU.com about how she first began dieting at age 12.She has decided to speak about her 9 year struggle with anorexia. Snow was not yet a teenager when she began acting on “Guiding Light.”
She says, “I remember looking around at all these women who were on the soap opera who were working out and dieting.”She declared that things got out of control trying to follow up the ladies around her. She said that things went “to the extreme,” at one point eating only pineapple for two months.
The compliments that followed up after losing 10 pounds kept nourishing her appetite for getting thinner and thinner. She told MTVU.com, “It kind of progressed into this thing where I needed to always be dieting and losing weight and more weight. It became my life and I didn’t have any friends and this was definitely my best friend and I held on to it really tight.”
Brittany’s anorexia eventually progressed until she weighed only 85 pounds at 15. “I knew that was a really low number and I knew that my hair was falling out and I had really weird skin,” she admits. “My face looked really weird and I was getting this fuzz on my face and I was always cold – always to the point of uncontrollably shaking. I was more scared that 85 lbs. wasn’t good enough. I wanted to be lower.”
She even declared that at one point she started to cut herself. She weighed herself up to 15 times per day.She explains, “I would look at the scars and what I had done to myself and that would convince me not to eat…I also was crying for attention and I also really wanted someone to see my scars and help me and give me a hug.”
Snow entered a rehab program at 19 and has her problem under control, “but the eating stuff was still really hard to deal with,” she says. “It’s still a struggle.”
Written by roxana on September 30th, 2007 with
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