JoJo Says She Was Put on a 500 Calorie a Day Diet as a Teen

, the 29-year-old singer recalled her former label, Blackground's, decision not to put out more albums from her after releasing in 2006. Despite continuously turning in new music, JoJo said that no effort was made to put it out, something that eventually led her to think"maybe that it was [because of] the way that I looked."

"But I ended up getting put with a nutritionist that had me on a 500 calorie a day diet, and I was on these injections that make you have no appetite," JoJo continued. "I was like, 'Let me see how skinny I can get, because maybe then they’ll put out an album. Maybe I’m just so disgusting that no one wants to see me in a video and they can’t even look at me.' That’s really what I thought.

"I'm not angry for being looked at as a product because as artists, we are. I am speaking for probably I would say every woman in this industry [where] your image and your weight is up for conversation and it's just uncomfortable," she said. "It's hard enough being a woman. I’m sure a lot of us develop extreme insecurities and disordered eating and really unhealthy thinking about ourselves.

"I needed to be buzzed to feel OK. I would go to the edge, stand on my tiptoes on the edge and then come back," she continued. "I should be dead."

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