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Taylor Swift reveals: "I had an eating disorder"

The star has opened up about her struggles
  • 24 Jan 2020

We've all been hanging out for Taylor Swift's Netflix documentary, and it finally arrived – bringing with it some stunning revelations about the singer.

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Debuting at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, Miss Americana – which is set to hit our screens Jan. 31 – is a candid, behind-the-scenes look at the life of Ms Swiz.

But in a reveal that has saddened many fans, the multi-award-winning muso opened up about how derogatory comments about her appearance led to her suffering from an eating disorder for many years.

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Sundance Film Festival 2020.

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"It’s not good for me to see pictures of myself every day," she shared.

"It’s only happened a few times, and I’m not in any way proud of it, [but I'll see] 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 – [to] just stop eating."

Taylor said she would often feel like she might to pass out during performances, would make a list of everything she put in her mouth each day and exercised constantly.

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Taylor performing in 2014.

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"I would have defended it to anybody who said 'I’m concerned about you,'" the You Need To Calm Down singer continued.

"I don’t think you know you’re doing that when you’re doing it gradually. There’s always some standard of beauty that you’re not meeting. Because if you’re thin enough, then you don’t have that ass that everybody wants, but if you have enough weight on you to have an ass, then your stomach isn’t flat enough."

"It’s all just f---ing impossible."

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Tay performing in 2015 with model pals Gigi Hadid and Lily Aldridge, and actress mates Hailee Steinfeld and Lena Dunham.

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Speaking to Variety magazine about why she included her eating disorder struggles in her documentary, Taylor explained:

"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 – my relationship with food and all that over the years."

"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."

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At the 2020 Golden Globes.

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Taylor continued:

"I think I’ve never really wanted to talk about that before, and I’m pretty uncomfortable talking about it now. But in the context of every other thing that I was doing or not doing in my life, I think it makes sense [to have it in the film]."

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