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Taylor Swift reveals she suffered an eating disorder where she would starve herself to the ‘point of almost passing out’ when she saw unflattering photos or got negative comments about her looks
Taylor Swift has opened up about her eating disorder that was triggered by unflattering photos or comments about her appearance.
The singer, 30, has admitted she used to ‘just stop eating’ if she saw a photo of herself where she felt she looked too big or if someone made a cruel comment about her size.
Speaking in her Netflix documentary Miss Americana, she said: ‘It’s not good for me to see pictures of myself every day.
‘It’s only happened a few times, and I’m not in any way proud of it. [There have been times when I’ve seen] 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.’
In the documentary, then-and-now photos show how thin the Me! singer was during her 1989 album era contrasted with the slim but healthier look she presented while touring Reputation in 2018.
Taylor admitted she regularly felt like she was ‘going to pass out’ while on stage at her thinnest because of her under eating.
She said: ‘I thought that I was supposed to feel like I was going to pass out at the end of a show, or in the middle of it. Now I realise, no, if you eat food, have energy, get stronger, you can do all these shows and not feel (enervated).’