RTE star Angela Scanlon has opened up on her struggle with an eating disorder. The Meath native had struggled with anorexia and bulimia for 15 years, starting from her late teens. Angela appeared on ITV’s Loose Women yesterday to speak about her battle with the mental illness.
The 40-year-old admitted: "I was quite afraid to talk about it for a really long time. I think I was afraid it would define me, that people would always want to talk about it or scrutinise me. "It was anorexia and bulimia.
Often they go in cycles, it's not necessarily one or the other. "It can sometimes be very bleak. It's not spoken about very often.
It can be very secretive. It's not always obvious. I think people assume it's a very thin person who's visibly struggling but I think they come in very different forms.
" The Ask Me Anything presenter revealed the "turning point" she had when she decided to change her life around. Angela explained: "I just remember when I was in a really bad place..
. "One of the turning points was a friend of mine, who also suffered, saying, 'We're just going to have this forever'. "For her, it felt like a comfort thing - support in numbers.
"But for me, I kicked against that notion of having to stay in that very small space for a long time." Angela also spoke about how it's "difficult" to pinpoint the factors that contribute to the harrowing illness. She said: "There's definitely towards tendency to very sensitive people.
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