At age 36, Alanis Morissette has reached a place of peace when it comes to eating, after spending many of her teen years battling unhealthy behaviors including the eating disorders anorexia and bulimia.
By the age of 14, Alanis was already living in the public eye as the star of a popular Canadian television show, the founder of a record label and the recipient of a contract with MCA Canada. But with her stardom came unbelievable stress, which the young star found difficult to handle.
In an interview with Health magazine for its December issue, Morissette recalls: "As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic. I was a young woman in the public eye, on the receiving end of a lot of attention, and I was trying to protect myself from men who were using their power in ways I was too young to know how to handle.
"Disappointment, sadness and pain hit me hard, and I tried to numb those feelings through my relationship with food. For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots and black coffee. I began recovering at age 18 when a sweet friend confronted me."
(Source: www.cnn.com)
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