Actress Anne Hathaway suffered from anorexia for years. She has often spoken publicly about this mental illness.
- Anorexia nervosa is a predominantly female behavioral disorder that most often appears during adolescence.
- Actress Anne Hathaway suffered from it for many years.
- Today, the star is doing better, but remains marked by the illness.
If, like me, you enjoyed watching the rebroadcast of the film on TF1 for the umpteenth time “The devil wears Prada”, you probably wanted to know if the heroine Anne Hathaway was doing better.
Anorexia: “I did everything wrong for so long”
The actress has been fighting for years against anorexia, a mental pathology about which she has always spoken openly.
“I did everything wrong for so long,” she explained a few years ago to the American magazine People, emphasizing on this occasion that “uneasiness, insecurity, nervousness and anxiety” were part of his daily life at the time.
“Ten years ago, I was so scared of Oscar season that I hardly ate anything at Christmas. I thought movie stars had to have a certain physique. I would just smoke to get through the nerves and didn’t feed me”, she confided again.
Anorexia: “I lost a lot of weight in two weeks”
After losing 12 kilos for a role, Anne Hathaway also expressed regrets: “I lost a lot of weight in two weeks. I knew nothing about nutrition, I was asking too much of my body. This weight loss was not a good thing in the long term for my health, and it m “took a very long time to get over it.”
Today, the actress is in better shape, although still marked by illness. “I understood that you had to thank life by taking care of yourself. You shouldn’t apologize for taking up space, and I didn’t know that ten years ago,” she said recently.
What is anorexia?
Potentially fatal, anorexia nervosa is an essentially female behavioral disorder that most often appears during adolescence. “It leads to strict and voluntary food deprivation for several months, even several years,” explains Inserm.
An epidemiological study carried out among adolescents in their 18th year, in France in 2008, indicated that anorexia nervosa affected 0.5% of these young girls and 0.03% of boys between 12 and 17 years old.
