Taylor Swift Gets Real About Overcoming an Eating Disorder
Taylor Swift is opening up about having an eating disorder that, thankfully, she overcame.
In her new Netflix documentary Taylor Swift: Miss Americana, she revealed a challenging time in her life and shared that paparazzi photos were a “trigger.”
In the film, Tay says that when she’d see “a picture of me where 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.”
The singer’s eating disorder became a major issue after it started affecting her performance.
“I thought that I was supposed to feel like I was going to pass out at the end of the show, or in the middle of it,” she said in the documentary. “Now, I realize, no, if you eat food, have energy, get stronger, you can do all these shows and not feel [enervated].”
Taylor also elaborated in an interview with Variety:
“I didn’t know if I was going to feel comfortable with talking about body image and talking about the stuff I’ve gone through in terms of how unhealthy that’s been for me,” she told the magazine.
“But the way that Lana [Wilson] tells the story it really makes sense,” she continued of the film’s director. “I’m not as articulate as I should be about this topic because there are so many people who could talk about it in a better way. But all I know is my own experience. And my relationship with food was exactly the same psychology that I applied to everything else in my life: If I was given a pat on the head, I registered that as good. If I was given a punishment, I registered that as bad.”
We love you, Taylor. Thanks for being so candid!