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Country singer Lauren Alaina opened up about her struggle with an eating disorder while she was competing on season 10 of American Idol.
“I started having problems with [an] eating disorder in middle school and then in tenth grade, I go on American Idol,” Alaina, 28, said to Hannah Brown on the Wednesday, August 9, episode of the “Better Tomorrow” podcast. “And I was in my very awkward, chubby phase.”
Alaina explained that the “biggest criticism” she endured came from the girls in her high school but that changed when she decided to go on “national television.”
“I was always confident on the stage, the one thing I wasn’t confident [about] was my weight probably like my whole life,” she recalled. “Well not my whole life, but starting in eighth grade-ish because I became a cheerleader and I was a softball player before that and so I was not built the same.”
Alaina was the runner-up on the wildly popular singing competition series in 2011, losing to fellow country artist Scotty McCreery. Alaina recalled being “between a teenager and a woman” while a 16-year-old on the show, and marveled at how so many viewers focused on and criticized her body.
“People commented a lot on my weight. … What kind of evil humans can comment on a 16-year-old child is beyond me now. But as that 16-year-old child it got very bad for a while,” Alaina admitted. “I suffered with such a severe eating disorder in those years where nothing was connecting, it wasn’t only because [I needed] to work hard, I lost who I was completely. Everything, my light like it was dimmed quite a bit because of the TV aspect.”
Alaina remembered there was even a blog at the time, which she did not name, that photoshopped a “pig nose” on her face and referred to her as “Miss
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eating disorder, according to The Independent.The series will “introduce young readers to the world’s most-loved princess” when it hits bookshelves on September 5, 2023.The book is targeted at children 4 years and up and shares the story of her transition from primary school teacher to a member of the royal family.“Even though her life seemed to be taken from the pages of a fairy tale, she soon realized that the prince’s heart belonged to someone else,” the book reads.“Over time that sadness grew into an eating disorder called bulimia.” Mayo Clinic describes bulimia as a serious, potentially life-threatening eating disorder.The Post reached out to author Sánchez Vegara’s reps for comment.The book labels the former Princess of Wales as the “first famous person to speak up about her struggle with bulimia, helping others to confront it, too.”Dark moments are unveiled with an illustration of Diana sitting on the kitchen floor with an empty plate.“Whenever she felt alone, she sought relief by eating all the cakes she could find in the royal kitchens,” it reads.“But that sweet feeling of comfort didn’t last long. Once it was gone, she would try to get rid of all the food she had eaten by making herself throw up.”Diana, who died on August 31, 1997, openly spoke about her bulimia for the first time in a 1995 “Panorama” interview with Martin Bashir.“I had bulimia for a number of years.
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Country music singer-songwriter Lauren Alaina is getting candid about struggling with an eating disorder while making her debut into the spotlight. Alaina competed on the 10th season of "American Idol" when she was in high school. She told Hannah Brown on her "Better Tomorrow" podcast that she was battling an eating disorder at the time.