Lily Collins Was Too Thin to Pose for Magazine Covers
by EG
Lily Collins was too thin for fashion.
After losing weight to portray a person suffering from anorexia in the Netflix drama To the Bone, “magazines didn’t want to put me on their covers because they were concerned I wasn’t healthy,” the 28-year-old actress tells Us Weekly. “I commended them. There are photos in magazines of extreme thinness. It’s hard for teenagers to look at that and know what society is saying.”
It’s a message she’s wrestled with herself. As a teen, Collins struggled to overcome her own eating disorder, which she detailed in her recent memoir, Unfiltered. “To me, healthy used to represent perfection,” she says. “But now, it represents how strong I am.”
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Lily Collins has also appeared in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.