“There’s always some standard of beauty that you’re not meeting.
It’s all just f***ing...Impossible.”
-Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift is an American singer-songwriter who has won many awards for her work.
In 2020, she released a film, Miss Americana, about her career and her personal life, opening up about her struggles with an eating disorder.
Below are snippets of her describing her experience:
Taylor Swift: “You don’t ever say to yourself ‘Look, I’ve got an eating disorder’ but you know you’re like, making a list of everything you’re putting in your mouth that day, and you know that’s probably not right.
“But then again, there’s so many diet blogs that tell you that that’s what you should do.”
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“It's not good for me to see pictures of myself everyday 'cause I have a tendency...I tend to get triggered by something, whether it's a picture of me where I feel like I looked like my tummy was too big, or like someone said that I looked pregnant or something and that will just trigger me to just starve a little bit...just stop eating.”
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“Now I realize, no, if you eat food, have energy, get stronger, you can do all these shows and not feel it [fatigue]. Which is...a really good revelation.”
“I’m a size 6 instead of a size 00. I mean, that wasn’t how my body was supposed to be. I just didn’t really understand that at the time. I really don’t think I knew it.”
“I don’t think you know you’re doing that when you’re doing it gradually.”
-Taylor Swift
Eating disorders are...serious and often fatal illnesses...associated with severe disturbances in people’s eating behaviors and related thoughts and emotions.
Common eating disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder.
Eating disorders do not discriminate; they can affect people of all ages, racial/ethnic backgrounds, body weights, and genders.
However, with treatment and support, people can recover from an eating disorder.
“And I caught myself yesterday starting to do it, and I was like, ‘Nope, we do not do that anymore, because it’s better to think you look fat than to look sick.’”
-Taylor Swift
“And we’re just changing the channel on our brain, and we’re not doing that anymore; that didn’t end us up in a good place.’”
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“Because I’m a lot happier with who I am. I’m happier with...I don’t care as much if somebody points out that I have gained weight. It’s just something that makes my life better.”
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