has had her share of mental health struggles, and the Oscar-nominated actress went on Taraji P. Henson's Facebook Watch showand panic attacks dated back to her childhood and went on to fuel an eating disorder she struggled with for years.
Sidibe first began feeling depressed when her parents split up, when the actress was in elementary school. As she grew up, it manifested in hours-long crying fits that were, years later, diagnosed as."I would have to get to school early so I could really clean myself up," she told Henson."I'd be sweating, I'd be crying. My clothes would genuinely be wet with my tears." One day she cried so hard she ended up throwing up.
"It was about me surviving the day," she explained."A self-defense mechanism: that's what bulimia was for me. It wasn't about losing weight, it wasn't about controlling my appetite. It truly was about how it stopped me from crying. It felt like I was controlling my emotions."That's one of the misconceptions about eating disorders such as bulimia, Sidibe pointed out: they don't just affect"skinny" people.
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