Actress Thandi Newton’s struggle with bulimia
Another actress has revealed their struggles with bulimia. Actress Thandi Newton (Pursuit of Happyness) says she had terrible bulimia in her teenage years for about a year. It was so bad that she has scars on her knuckles from when she stuck her fist down her throat. Gross!
“Newton says her obsession started as early as 14, training for her ballet exams and eating “nothing but cottage cheese.” A series of abusive relationships followed – as did the eating disorder once she reached her early 20s.” As told by People Magazine.
“I’d been involved with this guy for a long time, he was much older than me and I felt a lot of shame about my sexual relationship with him,” she tells the magazine. “I would have these dinners with him and then go back to the flat and I’d throw up. Then I went out with someone who was emotionally abusive, criticizing me the whole time.” Finally after therapy, she realized that she had a problem and got over it.
Anyone see the irony of her next movie out is titled “Run, Fat Boy, Run”?