Presenter Fearne Cotton has opened up about her decade-long battle with bulimia and how it “ruled everything” in her 20s.
The TV and radio star, 38, said the eating disorder was “intense” but, at the time, “felt like a release”.
During a chat on the podcast How To Fail, the former Celebrity Juice host explained: “It felt like a release, like every worry, every problem, thought, was just gone. It was like a little bit of euphoria afterwards.
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“Of course, it wasn’t. I want to be very clear about that.
“It took quite a while, physically, to kind of move on from that. But mentally, a very long time.”
She explained how the condition was brought on by impostor syndrome, during her time as a Radio 1 DJ and presenter on Top of the Pops, as she never felt “smart enough” or “good enough” at her job.
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