Taylor Swift Reveals Eating Disorder In Netflix Documentary
On Thursday, Taylor Swift premiered her new Netflix documentary titled “Taylor Swift: Miss Americana“ during the Sundance Film Festival. In the doc, the “Lover” singer revealed that she struggled with eating disorders in the past.
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She admitted that due to the paparazzi’s frequent scrutiny of her appearance it caused her to develop an “unhealthy” relationship with food. Swift admitted that there were times she’d even “starve” herself. She explained in her voice over,
“It’s not good for me to see pictures of myself every day,” adding that the unflattering snaps of herself triggered her to lose weight.
“It’s only happened a few times, and I’m not in any way proud of it,” Swift continued. “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.”
This is not the first time the 30-year-old singer opened up about her health. She elaborated on the origins of her eating disorder in an interview with Variety magazine that coincided with the Miss Americana premiere.
“I remember how when I was 18, that was the first time I was on the cover of a magazine, and the headline was like ‘Pregnant at 18?'” she said. “And it was because I had worn something that made my lower stomach look not flat. So I just registered that as a punishment.”
The pop star says she now focuses on staying positive and often tells herself: “Nope. We do not do that anymore because it’s better to think you look fat than to look sick.”
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