This put up incorporates dialogue of consuming issues and physique picture struggles.
In the event you’re a TV viewer of a sure age, you additionally know that Christina bought her huge break on the irreverent TV sitcom Married… with Kids, which aired for 11 seasons beginning in 1987.
“I simply disadvantaged myself of meals for years and years and years,” Christina stated whereas speaking about fighting anorexia. “It was fucking torture.”
Christina, who additionally famous that she’s beforehand “by no means mentioned” her consuming dysfunction in public, revealed that her mom put her within the Weight Watchers program when she was simply 15 years outdated, initially of Married… with Kids‘s run.
“If I bought right down to 110 [pounds], she’d be like…’How’d you do it?'” Christina recalled. “And the explanation was, I had an consuming dysfunction.”
“I might eat 5 almonds in a day. And if I had six, I might cry and I would not need to go away the home. And that caught with me for years and years and years.”
“I wished my bones to be protruding, so I did not eat,” Christina added whereas discussing the revealing outfits that she typically wore on the present. “It was very scary to everybody on set as a result of they had been like, ‘Christina by no means eats.’ They talked to me about it.”
Christina additionally revealed that, at one level, the present’s wardrobe needed to begin taking in dimension zero clothes as a result of she’d misplaced a lot weight. “However to me, I used to be monumental,” she recalled.
Christina additionally stated that she was capable of achieve management over her consuming dysfunction in her 30s — however that she’s additionally struggled with physique picture in her battle with MS. “The demon in my head is coming again actually loud, and it is scaring me,” she stated. “I want to concentrate on it so I do not begin falling into dangerous habits of injuring myself.”
Christina additionally addressed the comment she made on the 2023 Emmys earlier this 12 months, the place she referred to herself as “physique not by Ozempic” — a reference to the favored diabetes sort 2 drug that some (together with celebrities) have turned to for weight reduction.
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“I made jokes on the Emmys as a result of…it was like I might see what they had been considering…and I used to be so humiliated,” she defined. “The demon is saying these items to me.”
Christina in the end expressed a dedication to verify her daughter Sadie grows up with totally different messaging round physique picture points than she did.
“I do not need my daughter to see me not eat,” she stated. “I have been actually clear about…making an attempt to not put myself down…I’ve dangerous shallowness points and have my complete life. I do not need that for my child.”
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