Xian Horn has been a contributor at Forbes since 2018, covering leadership, empowerment, and disability; highlighting issues such as inclusive design and transportation advocacy. She has interviewed luminaries like Diane von Furstenberg, Marlee Matlin, and Gloria Estefan.
Trigger Warning: The topics discussed in the piece while brief, are sensitive in nature and may be triggering especially to victims of abuse., or as ‘Hanoi Jane’ Vietnam activist, as an exercise maven from the 1980s, a climate change warrior, or the feminist co-founder of the—the latter featuring her famous but emotionally distant father, Oscar winner Henry Fonda . Today, she is recognized as an outspoken, multi-hyphenate powerhouse and a role model to many, especially women.
“Well it took a long time. For the eating disorders, I just realized that I was going to die if I continued with my addiction. And I had an important life to live. I was making movies, I was raising children. I had a family. I was doing political activism work. And so I went cold turkey, I didn't realize there were programs that I could’ve gone to…. But
“I don't think discussed or in the documentary was, because I didn't really know it, that I was sexually abused at age seven, the same age as my mother.
“I'm a privileged, white, famous woman. And so if was done to me, I think, how on earth did it affect somebody who didn't have that kind of public acclaim or, or ability to pay for a therapist or a support system? And sometimes people without means or privilege, have a support system, it's usually in the form of a mother no matter what says, ‘You're gonna make it, you can become whatever you want, you could do it; those kind of mothers should be given crowns.
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