Reneé Rapp Says People in Production Said 'Vile' Things About Her Body While Doing 'Mean Girls' on Broadway

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Reneé Rapp is opening up about her experience on Broadway. The 23-year-old musician and actress got candid in a new interview with The Guardian, out now.

During the conversation, Reneé explained what it was like to star in the Broadway musical Mean Girls while she was struggling with an eating disorder. Keep reading to find out more… She said that while she was 19 and new to New York City, she was dealing with an eating disorder exacerbated by people working on production who “would say some vile f-cking things to me about my body.” Reneé revealed it got so bad that, before the pandemic, her parents flew to New York to try to pull her out of the show for fear of what it was doing to her health.

Now that she’s working in music, Reneé says her parents are “more worried than they ever have been, because they know more now.” “Eating disorders don’t just go away and like, you’re healed, like: ‘Sorry, I can eat again, ha ha!’ It’s a lifelong thing.

There are battles with addiction and whatever everywhere. I still struggle with it, but at least my parents know that I’ve been taken out of environments that were really harmful to my sickness, which is awesome and a huge win.