Lacey Schwimmer Reveals Battle with Anorexia
Lacy Schwimmer has been a dancer on Dancing with the Stars for three seasons now and no one every realized that during this whole time she has been struggling with an eating disorder. Last week, she spoke with Maria Menounos from Access Hollywood and explained that in the upcoming issue of InTouch magazine she talks about her illness and the photos of her in the magazine from when she was too thin. In reference to the photo of her in pajamas she said,
“My waist is insanely thin; my hair was starting to fall out; it was getting thin. My skin looked gray and that’s when… I was like, ‘Alright, this isn’t cool.’ I saw other girls that were healthy and happy at my age and I was not like that whatsoever.”
Lacey explained that her disorder started when she was just 13 years old and she was dancing 10 hours a day. At the time she would only eat a packet of turkey a day and she would often skip meals. She said,
“I skipped breakfast and I would eat at around like 2, 3 o’clock and then I would have a candy bar for dinner and just drink orange juice throughout the day.”
At the age of 18, the dancer discovered that Britney Spears was taking diet pills so she too did the same. Then at 19 when she joined DWTS she relapsed into bad behaviors and wasn’t eating and continued to abuse diet pills. After a couple of seasons on the show feeling big and guilty she has finally learned to love what she sees in the mirror. She said,
“I am comfortable in my own skin finally.”
Perhaps in the upcoming issue of In Touch
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Liar liar Pants on Fire. I’ve seen her since she was on SYTYCD (she just will not go away), and she’s proven time and time again she has an almost pathological need for attention. The girl was never thin enough to be anorexic, so if she suffered from it it was for about 3 minutes. And Anorexia is not that easy to kick. She might have some body image issues (though I doubt it given how she’s always shoving her a** in the camera), skipped a few meals, but Anorexia? No. And I think it’s insulting to the people who do suffer from Anorexia to claim something so serious because you don’t think your getting enough attention at the moment. I guess DWTS hasn’t been what she thought. After the initial new girl/wild child uproar no one’s really given a crap about her, so I guess she needed to find something new. It’s just sad that she’d pick something like this.
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