Julia Stiles recently became honest about her secret matches with disturbed eating after the weight gain pressure.
The 44-year-old American actress who shares three children with her husband, Preston Cook, appeared in the latest episode of How to fail with Elizabeth Day, Where she revealed her relationship with food and herself began to heal after embracing motherhood.
Stiles asked, “In my twenties and early thirties, as an actress, there was so much focus on your appearance and how you want to fit into certain clothes.”
The mother of three added, “I’m not the first person to say this – and even come from a mother who never emphasized these things – food and all that was so stressful.”
She continued to explain that the constant pressure of being a certain way in the entertainment industry made her develop a “disturbed relationship with it all. I’m not talking about an eating disorder – it was just restrictive, regimented, stressful. I was always worried that it would be out of my control. As if I am in weight?”
“There was stress about what your body looks like and tries to shape your body to a certain size. As an actress, we go and promote a red blanket and we have to wear sample sizes from fashion designers. So it’s always: ‘Do we have to fit into the sample size?'” Bourne identity Star noted.
In the future, a piece of advice julia Roberts gave her gave her as they filmed a movie, Mona Lisa SmileIn 2003.
When she talked about Roberts, she said, “She was a great example for us and she was so mothers with all the young women on that set. She came from a lot of experience of being not only a woman but also a woman where your appearance is focused on so heavy.”
“She said to us, ‘You want to look back on these photos of you in my twenties and be like, I was beautiful – why didn’t I see it?’ And she’s absolutely right! ”Julia Stiles remembered.
