Vogue Williams admits she got ‘obsessed with avoiding food' after cruel ‘thunder thighs' remark as teen
VOGUE Williams has opened up on her struggle with disordered eating as a teen.
The
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Vogue Williams released her first autobiography, Big Mouth, last week
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Vogue opened up about her disordered eating as a young teen
In the tell-all book,
relationships
and even her failed
marriage
with
singer
When it came to dissecting her teen years, the Irish model opened up about her
relationship
with food as a young teen.
After a boy from her
school
called her "thunder thighs", Vogue told readers: "I then became obsessed with avoiding food."
She added: "I used to pack a sandwich for lunch and whatever else my mum would be happy with and just not eat it.
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"Instead I would fill a sandwich bag with Special K and try and survive on just that for the day. I hadn't really learned much about nutrition and thought Special K plus very little else would make me skinny."
The mum-of-three reminisced on her dieting experience, adding: "I wish I knew then what I know now.
"I genuinely thought eating nothing would make me lose
weight
and I was always hungry. It's sad to look back and think what a young girl who doesn't like her body will deny herself."
The
weight
Vogue was losing.
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She said: "My mum then began to force me to sit down and eat my dinner, she wouldn't let me leave the table until I finished the food.
"Eating food was the last thing I wanted to do, proper things like pasta and chips were everything I hated at the time."
Vogue Williams shows off her wedding outfit
Vogue explained that if she tried to unpack her disordered eating it all boiled down to her being "uncomfortable with her height".
The
star
highlighted how she "always wanted to be five foot eight" and added: "Throw in a pair of stick thin legs and that would have been my dream."
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If you think you may have an eating disorder, see your GP as soon as you can.
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Vogue emphasised how food, health and nutrition are "so important" to her now.
Today, the
star
has learned how to find a balance with food and exercise.
The 39-year-old continued: "I train and eat healthily, I only follow the 80/20 rule and I never ever diet.
"In a
restaurant
now, I will order what I want. I am a
health
freak so I do try to be careful about what I put into my body.
"But I do have a sweet tooth so
chocolate
is always here to stay."
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