Taylor Swift gets brutally honest about battling with an eating disorder; says it affected her stamina on tour

© MTV/MTV1415/Getty Images for MTV Taylor Swift (R) and Demi Lovato attend the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards at the Forum on August 24, 2014, in Inglewood, California.

, and she’s letting it be known loud and clear in her new documentary, . It’s no secret Taylor has been hesitant to share her views in the past, because, as she’s stated before, she felt like she didn’t know enough about politics to contribute to the conversation surrounding it and possibly impact her fans’ views in the process.

“They’re not gonna help us / Too busy helping themselves"

1. Taylor Swift: Miss AmericanaDocumentary Fans will see a new side of the pop star in Taylor Swift’s revealing new documentary. The film will follow her life over the past few years as she comes into her own as a songwriter, performer and woman standing up for LGBTQ+ and artists’ rights through her public platform.When: Friday on Netflix

Taylor Swift's Miss Americana documentary did more than touch on Swift's foray into politics. Swift spoke for the first time in the film about overcoming her struggle with an eating order; she addressed her experience more fully to Variety in her interview with the outlet about the film.Swift said during a voiceover in the film that seeing photos of herself could trigger her to starve herself in the past.

Taylor Swift has played it very quiet in her romance with Joe Alwyn. She secretly started dating the 28-year-old British actor in the fall of 2016. While friends and family knew about it, their relationship wasn’t revealed to the public until June of 2017, when they were photographed having coffee on a balcony in Nashville. Now she’s opening up about what drew her to him in Taylor’s new Netflix documentary Miss Americana, which is the most she’s ever spoken about him.

Taylor Swift is raising the curtain on her personal life in her new Netflix documentary, Taylor Swift: Miss Americana, which premiered at Sundance yesterday. Swift spoke for the first time in the film about overcoming her struggle with an eating order; she addressed her experience more fully to Variety in her interview with the outlet about the film.

Taylor Swift's Miss Americana documentary premiere is tonight in Sundance, and the lady of the hour came to Park City dressed for own her moment. The singer wore an all plaid outfit: a plaid jumpsuit and matching trench and heels. She arrived at the premiere with just her team. She wore her hair down and opted for her signature red lip. This is Taylor Swift, after all.

Amid her Grammy Awards wins and hit records, Taylor Swift’s time in the spotlight hasn’t always been pleasant.

Taylor Swift's intimate Netflix documentary, Taylor Swift: Miss Americana, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Thursday night.In the film, the pop star revealed for the first time that she had an eating disorder.In the revealing Netflix documentary Taylor Swift: Miss Americana, Taylor Swift opened up for the first time about living with an eating disorder.

Big Machine Label Group founder/president/ceo Scott Borchetta spoke with Billboard on the red carpet at the 2020 Billboard Power Event on Thursday (Jan. 23), discussing his partnership with Scooter Braun, why he is still rooting for Taylor Swift, and why transparency is important when it comes to awards shows.

Trigger warning: This story contains language discussing eating disorders and disordered eating. Miss Americana, the new documentary centering Taylor Swift, is set to hit Netflix accounts next Friday (January 31).

has always used her music to share her feelings—and pieces of her life—with her fans, who carefully dissect every lyric. But those lyrics only tell part of the story.

"I’m pretty uncomfortable talking about it now."

Fly-on-the-wall portraits of pop-music stars used to be dominated by, you know, pop music. The life and personality and woe-is-me-I’m-caught-in-the-media-fishbowl spectacle of the star herself was part of the equation, yet all that stuff had a way of dancing around the edges.

In the new Taylor Swift documentary, “Miss Americana,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival Thursday night, there’s a montage of derogatory commentary about the singer that has appeared on cable shows over the years. One of the less nasty remarks: “She’s too skinny. It bothers me.”