Frankie Bridge, 34, took to Instagram yesterday to share a selfie that may have left many of her 1.5 million followers squirming. The Loose Women panelist uploaded a topless photo showing her badly bruised back after a cupping therapy session.
Cupping therapy creates localized suction on the skin with the application of heated cupping for the purpose of relieving pain by decompressing muscles and connective tissue.
This method can leave marks on the treated areas, which are discolorations due to ruptured blood vessels just under the skin.
In the photo, taken by Frankie as a selfie, the TV star can be seen posing in front of a bathtub in the bathroom.
Frankie has always spoken openly about her health and has previously tearfully opened up about the therapy she is undergoing for her difficult relationship with food.
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Last year, Frankie bravely admitted that beneath her glamorous guise she had secretly battled an eating disorder and now needed to ‘retrain’ her brain against the belief that carbs are ‘the devil’.
She candidly revealed that she still felt proud of herself whenever she went to bed hungry, but her need to control her calorie intake left her feeling exhausted and making her feel like she was 100 years old rather than 33.
The Saturdays singer was on the verge of tears as she opened up about her therapy sessions, and she called out the resurgence of the ‘heroin chic’ trend which she says is causing eating disorders in other people .
« [Restricting my eating] has been a dirty little secret for so many years and my way of finding some form of control,” she admitted via Instagram.
“I don’t think I was ready to give it up yet…”. [so] Everytime [a] therapy session [was] coming up, I’ll find ways to try and undo it, which is ridiculous.
“There is such a sense of shame around food – especially to talk about it. It didn’t sit well with me,” Frankie told her followers.
She admitted feeling ‘shame’ and ’embarrassment’ at her therapist’s request that she keep a food diary in which she recorded what she ate.
“The last time she asked me to keep a food diary, I bowed out and never made an appointment for another session!
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“I’ve been in therapy for years about depression, anxiety, talking about really personal things, but for some reason talking about food and weight just seems so much harder for me,” she continued. .
The Sunday Times bestseller added that she was ‘constantly’ looking for ways to limit her intake and had categorized foods into good and bad groups, believing carbs were like the devil.
“Are we surprised by the return of the chic heroine? Everyone needs to get skinny again,” she laments, referring to the 1990s fashion trend.
“When I was younger, if someone asked me if I was sick because I was so skinny, I felt like I had won – and if I go to bed and I’m hungry, I’m proud of myself,” she shared.
“It’s just because of this 90s mentality that’s ingrained in me and it’s going to be very difficult to get rid of it and retrain. »
However, she confessed that the food diary – which she eventually tried to start doing – helped her refocus her thoughts.
“When I see it’s written, I tell myself that I eat like an idiot!
If you are worried about your health or that of someone else, you can contact the SEED Eating Disorders Helpline on 01482 718130 or on their website. https://seedeatingdisorders.org.uk/
