18 Stars Who Bravely Battled Eating Disorders

Seeking to take care of your body by consuming certain foods in moderation is one thing, to come to want to excessively control your diet is a condition not to be taken lightly. Eating Disorders do not spare celebrities, who show an iron will to get by.

When food becomes the center of concern

These control diseases what is anorexia (drastic food restriction), bulimia (attacks of excessive food intake followed by compensatory measures, such as sport or vomiting) and hyperphagia , can affect anyone, from adolescent girls to middle-aged men, although women between the ages of 15 and 17 remain the most affected by EDD (eating disorders) .

Genetic, affective, psychic, socio-cultural, or family factors must be taken into account to better understand these diseases whose life events sometimes serve as a trigger.
The view of others also has an impact, which is why movements such as body positivism are important in order to raise awareness that each body is beautiful and thus avoid giving complexes and inciting disease control body weight and appearance.

Anorexia, bulimia, the stars also victims of this scourge

The visibility of stars is sometimes hard to manage. The career and the image that weigh on their shoulders sometimes lead them to have extreme behavior with food.
Lily Collins, who previously said she battled teenage anorexia, spoke candidly about her battle with eating disorders on the "Make It Reign<" podcast. /em> ". She declares that the therapy she has followed for several years as well as her relatives and in particular her companion have helped her in this fight.

For Marie Lopez, alias Enjoyphoenix, it is her participation in Dancing with the stars, a show for which she wanted to feel good about herself, which would have triggered this disorder. Demi Lovato admitted that food was the biggest challenge of her life and that her emotions dictated her food intake more than she would like.
And since eating disorders do not only affect men, Elton John said he was bulimic for six years. Paranoid about his weight, he couldn't stop eating.