Nikki Glaser Candidly Recalls Years of Struggling With Anorexia and Bulimia
etonline.comNikki Glaser got personal about her years-long battle with eating disorders. The star documented her journey in a personal essay published on , entitled, “It Took Me 18 Years to Eat Three Meals a Day.” The 37-year-old comedian opened the article by sharing her first memory “rejecting food” in the fifth grade.
Glaser shared that she opted out of eating brownies that her mother made, telling her mom, “I can’t,” because she thought that’s what women said when it came to things that weren’t good for them.
Glaser got candid about the extent of her eating disorder and how it really began during high school. “I didn’t start starving myself until high school, when I stopped doing sports my senior year and puberty kicked in and I gained a lot of weight,” she wrote. “I felt out of control about it because whenever I let myself have treats, I couldn’t stop eating.
I hated myself.” Glaser said that at that time, a boy noticed her and she got excited about hanging out with him, so she didn’t eat.
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