Kyle Richards Opens About Having An Eating Disorder and Once Weighing 99 Lbs.
Kyle Richards has bravely shared her experiences having an eating disorder on this week’s episode of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. She opened up to castmates Lisa Rinna, Dorit Kemsley, Erika Girardi, and Teddi Mellencamp about her life in the 1980s.
“Lisa Rinna opened up about Amelia, who was very brave to share her struggles with an eating disorder. I can’t just pretend that I don’t know what that feels like. So, guess what? I had an eating disorder when I was younger,” Kyle said in a confessional interview.
In the episode, Teddi asks Lisa if she knew about her daughter Amelia’s disorder, to which she said, “We knew about a few months before that.”
Then, Kyle revealed her own past struggle to the girls.
“I feel really weird even saying anything … because I’ve never ever talked about this,” she began. “Not even to my daughters, which is why I’m staying quiet because I feel weird… When I was younger, I had my own problems. But I never wanted to say because I had my daughters and I never even wanted that in their head.”
“It started when I was 17,” she went on. “I was on a TV show and I didn’t like — they kept putting me in these big things. And my boobs were big when I was young and my sisters were tiny and cute. Everybody was blonde and blue-eyed and skinny. I said, ‘I don’t like my wardrobe’ and they said, ‘Well, lose some weight and we’ll put you in cuter wardrobe.’”
“People would compliment me and the more they complimented me, the less I would eat,” she added. “I would take V8 juice and put it in a bowl and heat it up and that was my food. I was 99 lbs.”
Read more of the breakdown at People.