Alanis Morissette Was Anorexic
Posted by Mitch Michaels on 11.16.2009
Alanis battled some major food issues to deal with fame...
Alanis Morissette spoke to Health magazine recently, revealing a toubled past.
"As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic,"she said. "I was a young woman in the public eye, on the receiving end of a lot of attention, and I was trying to protect myself from men who were using their power in ways I was too young to know how to handle."
"Disappointment, sadness and pain hit me hard, and I tried to numb those feelings through my relationship with food. For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee," she said. "I began recovering at 18, when a sweet friend confronted me."
Alanis says she now sees eating as "a sort of spiritual practice."
