Angela writes that she’s never talked about it before because it’s “such an incredibly fragile process that you can’t really explain it.” “If you don’t know it, you don’t easily get to the feelings and thoughts of people who have an eating disorder.” She herself struggled with bulimia for ten years.
It’s not about “attracting attention” or “just wanting to be thin,” Angela explains. “It’s a terrible mental illness that doesn’t necessarily have to be visible.”
The actress encounters young women ‘with whom the fear, the perfectionism, the compulsion is so great’ that it frightens her. ‘I would like to say to all those beautiful girls: you don’t have to do it alone. To all mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, beloveds: have faith.’
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