Frankie Bridge has emotionally opened up about her eating disorder and depression battle, revealing exactly how The Saturdays star Mollie King helped her get through it.
Over the years the 37 year old has been very open about her struggles, and how it has impacted her life.
But in a new interview, Frankie spoke about the eating disorder and depression battle she faced during The Saturdays. And how it was bandmate Mollie King who helped her through.
Frankie Bridge opens up on eating disorder
Speaking on the latest episode of Daily Mail’s The Life Of Bryony podcast, an emotional Frankie revealed she felt her eating disorder was “the only way to take control”.
She explained: “I think some of it was to do with how I looked. But it was mostly a control thing. I obviously felt the pressure to look a certain way, being in a girl band, but that came from me.
“It mainly came from, this is the only way I can take any control of my day-to-day life. Because my anxiety was so bad, I wasn’t hungry either.”
Frankie admitted that she “wasn’t aware” she wasn’t eating enough food until she went to therapy and be “shaking” which prompted her therapist to encourage her to eat something.
How Mollie King helped her
However, it wasn’t just an eating disorder that Frankie was battling, she was also struggling with her depression battle at the time, which began at 17 years old.
Frankie admitted that her life was becoming not her “own” and she “never stopped working” but that she has “nothing bad to say” about her time in the band.
However, the lack of control contributed to her mental health crisis. And eventually things came to a head when her Saturdays band-mate Mollie, walked in on her crying in the hotel room.
She recalled: “I think I felt a loss of control around my life, and what was expected of me. I was going through a break-up quite publicly, and I think it all just came to a head. Probably burnout, I had my eating disorder at the time.
“There was one show we did, I think in Ireland. The minute we got to the hotel, I went in, shut the lights off, closed the curtains and got into bed.
“I think it was Mollie who came into my room. She had never seen me like that but I couldn’t stop crying. I told her ‘I can’t do the show!’”