Heart of the Matter” podcast.The actress — who is also the half-sister of Demi Lovato — played Juanita Solis, the daughter of Eva Longoria’s character, Gabrielle, from 2008 until 2012.De La Garza began using a computer when she was just a kid — despite not being allowed to by her parents — and spent a “crazy amount of time reading through” online comments.She claimed that social media led to “affecting my mental health and ultimately played into me developing an eating disorder at a very young age.”Besides depriving herself of food, she also endured a binge eating disorder.She recalled that people threw hateful words and phrases her way regarding her looks, including “ugly fat cow” and even saying, “I hope you get cancer and die because you’re so fat” — all when she was still under age 10.“Just horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible things.
And this is when I was 6, 7, 8 years old,” De La Garza said.Because she didn’t tell her family about the digital abuse, she doesn’t “blame” them for not helping her with her eating disorder.“It was literally impossible to stop me from seeing those things.
And I was also very good at hiding and throwing away meals, then saying that I ate them,” she noted. “A lot of this happened while I was at school, so there was no way for my parents to know that I was restricting.”However, she recollected that while people working on the set of the hit ABC dramedy didn’t tell her about the negativity they also witnessed, they did try to increase her self-esteem.The adults on the show would “go out of their way to tell me that I was beautiful and tell me that I looked really pretty.”She described how the wardrobe department tried to make her feel as “comfortable” as possible, and she felt that she.
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