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Actress reveals bulimic past
02/08/2007 07:29 - (SA)
London - British-raised Hollywood actress Thandie Newton used to suffer from bulimia and still bares the scars, she revealed in a new magazine interview.
She began suffering from the eating disorder when she was 14 and training for a ballet exam, Newton - who won best supporting actress at last year's British Bafta awards for her role in Crash - told Easy Living magazine.
"I ate nothing but cottage cheese. It didn't seem so strange. My mom was a health visitor, so we never had butter in our house, we had Flora. I had a very healthy, nutrition-conscious upbringing," she said.
The disorder turned into an obsession when she started going out with an older man, said the 34-year-old.
"We used to go out to dinner all the time, and he'd get so excited about eating... and it must have been my way of separating myself from him - by becoming bulimic.
"I would go back to the flat that we were sharing at the time, and I'd throw up," she said.
Explaining that she suffered from "horrible bulimia for about a year", she said: "I've still got the scars on my knuckles from where I put my fingers down my throat."
Newton, who also starred in Mission Impossible 2, was born in Zambia and raised there and in England, where she went to Cambridge University before embarking on a glittering movie career.
- AFP
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