Troian Bellisario Gets Candid About Her Eating Disorder
by EG
Troian Bellisario is opening up about her struggle with mental illness. In an essay for Lena Dunham’s Lenny Letter published on Tuesday, July 18, the Pretty Little Liars star, 31, is candid about her struggle and eating disorder.
"Here I am, 31 years old," the actress wrote while recalling a time she was swimming in freezing cold water. "And I'm still denying my body the one thing it is asking me to do: take care of it."
The CW star explained that her struggle was between her body wanting to be removed from the cold water, and her brain telling her to not be weak.
"There is a part of my brain that defies logic. Once, it completely convinced me I should live off 300 calories a day, and at some point, it told me even that was too much,” she continued. “That part of my brain is my disease, and there was a time when it had absolute authority over me. It almost killed me, and you can see that even though I have lived in recovery for 10 years now, it still finds loads of fun, insidious ways to thwart me to this day."
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Troian Bellisario has also appeared in Martyrs.